Réne Girard’s theory of mimetic desire:
for - investigate - Rene Girard - mimetic desire - I don't quite understand how this leads to cancel culture
Réne Girard’s theory of mimetic desire:
for - investigate - Rene Girard - mimetic desire - I don't quite understand how this leads to cancel culture
Reportage über die Folgen der globalen Erhitzung in Mexiko, wo das Meer zum Teil schon 200 m weit ins Landesinnere vorgedrungen ist. Die Zahl der Binnenvertriebenen aufgrund der Klimakrise lag im letzten Jahr in Mexiko bei über 7000. https://taz.de/Klimawandel-in-Mexiko/!5943280/
Thiel turns to Girard, as ‘the new science of humanity must drive the idea of imitation, mimesis, much further than it has in the past’, where ‘it is not overly reductionist to describe human brains as gigantic imitation machines’
Peter Thiel, saw in Facebook a capitalist enterprise whose engine of representation and then imitation – mimesis – was theorised by his own philosophical master René Girard as the hidden truth of civilisation.