mimesis – ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY

On Quebec and its “Vaccine Passport” [updated]

Since the Government of Quebec under Premier François Legault decided to jump the gun today and announced the coming of “vaccine” certification on September 1st, possibly in response to the opposition’s demand for always harsher measures, I decided to post these extracts from my larger work earlier than planned. As always, the imitation of Americans […]

Empire’s “Mimic Men”

Imperialism by Invitation or Imitation? US efforts in remaking the international system according to an image reflecting the US are not usually in complete vain since the track has already has already been cut. To continue with the analogy, US policy planners and military analysts are concerned about widening and then paving the track so […]

Show Me Your Motion! (Of Mentors, Peers, and Mimesis and Alterity in Trinidad)

True scientific knowledge, on the contrary, demands abandonment to the very life of the object — G.W.F. Hegel, Preface, The Phenomenology of Mind Discourse of all kind is heavily embedded with speech that has previously occurred, typically in the form of the first person direct quotation. — Joel Sherzer, quoted in Michael Taussig (1993, p. […]