Walter Benjamin's concern for 'mere life' induced him to seek out phantasmagorical traces in the collective archive, particularly in light of his assumption that these represent the clearest juncture between cultural epistemologies and practical approaches to a 'trans-historical temporality' measured not in chronological or historical time but in time that reveals itself instantaneously. 9Benjamin, 'On the Mimetic Faculty', in Reflections, New York: Schocken, 1986, pp. Walter Benjamin wrote extensively on photography. In doing so, I argue mimesis too easily serves as a double mirror-rather than transform production, nonhuman life at the level of biology becomes a force for production.Coenesthesia Cosmic Consciousness Direction Echolocation Gut Feeling Hallucinogens Hearing Heart Honor Humor Instinct Interoceptive Senses Intuition Jacobson’s Organ Liver Magnetic Mass Media Memory Morality Navigation Occult Pain Pineal Gland Plant Psi Precognition Pressure Psychokinesis Psychometry Quintessence Second Brain Sexual Organs Sight Smell Spiritual Senses, The Synaesthesia Taste Temperature Third Ear Third Eye Touch Trance Unconscious (Freud) Vibration Whiskers Wind X-ray Yoga Meditation Zen Meditation. But, I ultimately suggest that what has been so seductive about mimesis throughout history is that it offers a “way out” of political confrontation. I explore how this works in biomimetics, with a detailed look at one of the most celebrated examples of the biomimetic paradigm: the gecko's foot. I show how mimesis promises a way toward a future free from human hubris and ecological catastrophe-and a way out of the conditions that have created the Anthropocene. This essay explores how mimesis has once again been endowed with revolutionary potential in the contemporary moment through the growing field of biomimicry. Adorno-that located in the mimetic faculty a way out of a techno-fetishized social milieu. Taussig drew explicitly on a tradition of earlier twentieth-century scholarship-Walter Benjamin, Roger Caillois, and Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. In 1993 Michael Taussig's Mimesis and Alterity revitalized the power of the mimetic faculty to craft a vision of nature that was neither the alienated subject of modern science nor the passively malleable medium of late twentieth-century social constructivism.
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