mimesis

• mimesis a term used in literary criticism and philosophy: imitation, nonsensuous similarity, receptivity, representation, mimicry, the act of expression, the act of resembling, and the presentation of the self; — memetics an approach to evolutionary models of cultural information transfer, how an idea can propagate successfully but doesn’t necessarily imply a concept is factual

• mimetic desire

• The Technological Society (1954)

linked mentions for "mimesis":

1. mimetic desire
   René Girard, theologian discovered that most of what we desire is mimetic (mi-met-ik) or imitative, not intrinsic. Humans learn—through imitation—to
   
2. distinctions between good and poor taste
   Taste is an individual’s pattern of preferences for certain qualities of form over others. Social and cultural experiences influence taste, so our
   
3. subdued images of vitality
   When we live concepts and images that are not grounded in our body, we do not believe in who we are unformed adult zelig two terms: image and
   
4. adapting servants of environment
   we long to make sense of things, figure out who we are, wither bound, and to what end, while the eons roll on in their mindless ways. It falls then