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.
This is the third volume of a trilogy on Homo Mimeticus, edited by Nidesh Lawtoo and Willow Verkerk. In collaboration with the French philosopher Catherine Malabou, international contributors argue that plasticity—understood in its double capacity to receive form and to give form—plays a transformative role in the many lives of homo mimeticus qua homo plasticus. BLOG available here. FULL TEXT downloadable here.
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The Gendered Mimesis project is pleased to announce a two-day international conference on the subject of the “Metamorphoses of Mimesis” in the work of contemporary French philosopher Catherine Malabou. Last weeks to submit an abstract!
In this article Nidesh Lawtoo establishes a genealogical connection between the emerging concept of plasticity and the ancient philosophical concept of mimesis in order to further an ongoing dialogue between contemporary continental philosophy and the neurosciences. Article available here.
