Durrant, S orcid.org/0000-0002-9244-9715 (Cover date: December 2023) Homo Ecologicus: Animism, Historical Materialism and Planetary Mimesis. MLN, 138 (5). pp. 1520-1544. ISSN 0026-7910
Abstract
The contemporary return toward mimesis turns in at least two directions. The first doubles down on Plato's suspicion of mimesis as a contagious threat to rationality and the healthy functioning of the polis and in this sense advocates, at the level of human behaviour, a turning away from mimesis and the pathological, all-too-human nature of homo mimeticus. The second form of the mimetic turn is a more wholehearted turning towards mimesis, seen not as contagious pathology but as cure, as planetary solution to our all-too-human modes of being in the world. This essay is interested in this second, utopian turn towards mimesis, charting the dialectical re-emergence of homo mimeticus as homo ecologicus in Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment and Noongar novelist Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance.
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of English (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 30 Jun 2023 10:29 |
Last Modified: | 12 Apr 2024 14:39 |
Published Version: | https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/922037 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1353/mln.2023.a922037 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:201046 |