Homo Mimeticus III

Introduction: Morphing Mimetic Studies
Nidesh Lawtoo and Willow Verkerk

Prologue: The Four Metamorphoses of Plasticity: Proteus to Figura, Self-Care to the Overhuman
Nidesh Lawtoo

PART I — GENEALOGIES OF MIMETIC PLASTICITY

Chapter 1: Epigenetic Mimesis: Natural Brains and Synaptic Chips
Catherine Malabou

Chapter 2: Plasticity, Mimesis, Transformativity: A Genealogy of Theories of Change
Tom Boland

Chapter 3: Material Mimetism: On Plastics, Plasticity and Mimesis
Alice Iacobone

Chapter 4: Negative Plasticity and the Indifference of the Body
Kristian Schaeferling

PART II — PLASTIC ENCOUNTERS AND MIMETIC STUDIES

Chapter 5: Benjamin’s Great Criminal, a Plastic Mime
Gabriel Wartinger

Chapter 6: To Double Mimesis Bound: Mortal Plasticity between Malabou and Lacoue-Labarthe
Alex Obrigewitsch

Chapter 7: Eroticism, Gender and the Possibility For Transformation: With and Beyond Merleau-Ponty
Ida Djursaa

Chapter 8: Mimesis, Resonance and the Subject: A Critical Comparison
Mathijs Peters

PART III — FROM NEUROLITERATURE TO THE MIMETIC SUBCONSCIOUS

Chapter 9: Semiosis and Mimesis
Sergey Zenkin

Chapter 10: Neuroliterature and the Example
Tyler M. Williams

Chapter 11: Proust, Realism and the Plasticity of Natural Signs
Ian James

Chapter 12: Conflicting Subliminalities: The Other Ancestors of Mimesis
Catherine Malabou

Coda: The Three Metamorphoses of Mimesis: Thinking with Catherine Malabou
Catherine Malabou and Nidesh Lawtoo

Notes on Contributors