IV. Thiel & Palantir: Hypermimetic Surveillance
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Category Archives: Video Talk
IV. Thiel & The Antichrist : The Straussian Moment
III. Thiel & New Fascism: from Trump to J. D. Vance
I. Thiel avec Girard: From Mimetic Theory to Facebook
The Case of Thiel: Diagnosed by Mimetic Studies
Book Launch: Homo Mimeticus III: Plasticity, Mimesis and Metamorphosis with Catherine Malabou
Editors Nidesh Lawtoo and Willow Verkerk, along with contributors engage in conversations with Catherine Malabou to foster the connection between plasticity and mimesis central to the volume.
TEDx: A Mirror for the Future
May 2022: (Re)Structure the (De)Structured
We have been taught the importance of originality, but can there be something original without a model that paves the way? In this talk, Nidesh Lawtoo, concludes the ERC project Homo Mimeticus , not so much by painting, but rather, telling the story of a single, marginalized, mimetic protagonist that has been relegated to the backstage of academic discussions in the past, yet deserves to be brought on the TED-stage to inspire the future.
Inaugural Lecture: Dodo Through the Looking Glass
Dodo Through the Looking-Glass: A Mirror for Modern and Contemporary Culture. Inaugural Lecture by Prof. dr. Nidesh Lawtoo on the acceptance of his position as Professor Modern/Contemporary European Literature and Culture at Leiden University on Friday, 14 November 2025. Video available here. Text available here
Mimetic Trouble with Judith Butler I
In this last dialogue for HOM Videos, Nidesh Lawtoo meets Judith Butler in Paris to account for the role a different, psychic, performative and troubling conception of mimesis play in their influential work. Taking a genealogical approach to Butler’s latest book to date, Who Is Afraid of Gender, Lawtoo asks Butler to revisit the role mimetic and expressive theories of aesthetic play in their influential book, Gender Trouble (I).
HOM Videos 10: Ancient Foundations for Mimetic Studies
What a better place to conclude the Homo Mimeticus project than the ancient Agora of Athens were philosophy was born? It is in fact here that Socrates among many other philosophers conceived of philosophy not only as a love of wisdom but also as a way of life, as Pierre Hadot would say.
