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
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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
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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
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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
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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
René Girard, theologian discovered that most of what we desire is mimetic (mi-met-ik) or imitative, not intrinsic. Humans learn—through imitation—to
Taste is an individual’s pattern of preferences for certain qualities of form over others. Social and cultural experiences influence taste, so our
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
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