Mimesis International: 57 books
Situations and atmospheres in organizations
A (new) phenomenology of being in the organization
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Although situations and atmospheres are omnipresent in organizations and have a significant influence on the behaviour of the members of the organization, they are only seldom regarded as relevant research subjects in management and organization research and systematically investigated. This book...
Requiem for a nation
Religion and Politics in Post War Italian Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
The primary objective of this collection is to examine the ways in which religion, culture and politics converge in configuring the contradictions of post-war Italy’s cultural history, starting from the assumption that conducting a critical reflection on Italian postwar visual culture requires investigating...
Cinema and Art as Archive
Form, Medium, Memory
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
As Jacques Derrida wrote in 1995, while considering Archive Fever, nothing is less reliable or less clear today than the word “archive”. Nevertheless, the historic-cultural dimension of the contemporary discursive practices in cinema and art develops in the semantic openendedness of the term,...
Plots and Plotters
Double Agents and Villains in Spy Fictions
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
The aim of this collection of essays is to explore “negative characters” in the espionage narratives of some of the most esteemed English writers, such as Conrad, Maugham, Ambler, Greene, Fleming, McEwan among others. The role of women is analysed, in particular with the figure of Mata Hari, so...
Porn After Porn
Contemporary Alternative Pornographies
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
After the “digital turn,” expansion of sexual representations has taken shape quantitatively(thanks to the multiplication of production and distribution channels) and qualitatively (giving riseto a plurality of new representational forms). In this context, several social groups – including women...
Mindsets
Conceiving Cognition in Nature
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
What is cognition? What is its place in nature? For about 60 years philosophers and scientistshave been engaged in giving a naturalistic dress to the cognitive sciences arguing over the statusof mental representations and computational processes.However, despite its great deal of success, the representational...
Extended Temporalities
Transient Visions in the Museum and in Art
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
This book contains a series of reflections on the theme of temporalities in cinema in the world of art. They do so interweaving various paths, and various structures, in order to arrive at different destination points. Which temporalities, one may wonder. On the boundary between cinema and contemporary...
by Gernot Böhme
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Aesthetic Economy is a theory of the recent development of capitalism in our national economies. Basic needs are easily satisfied and, as a result, most commodities are no longer intended for consumption, but for the staging of our lives. That is, they are used to produce atmospheres. Applications...
Geographies of Psychoanalysis
Encounters between Cultures in Tehran
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Can psychoanalytical hypotheses have a universal value? Can they describe the same – or a similar – psychic dynamic for any human, regardless of the historical, social and cultural context? Can psychoanalysis help with mental suffering in different realities? In our times, the questions psychoanalysis...
The Archives
Post-Cinema and Video Game Between Memory and the Image of the Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
The digital age has witnessed the development of a new kind of archive: immaterial, “living and moving,” largely user-generated, and conceived for managing a wide variety of audio-visual materials, besides traditional films and videos. The first part of this anthology investigates the ways in...
Cinema is a dream
New images and the principles of modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
The emergence and spread of new images – photography, film, television and audiovisual – have brought about an important epistemological revolution that has encouraged contemporary man to have a new attitude of confidence not only towards the image but also to reality. The modern knowledge that...
Normativity and Praxis
Remarks on Controversies
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Among the various issues debated in philosophy today, this book focuses on one which is unquestionably central: can we claim to have any regulated procedure that uses common norms to resolve human disagreements?Although this is a question with profound classical roots, it is explored in this work...
Only For Them
A Manifesto for Animality through Philosophy and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Year after year, day after day,minute after minute, billions ofnon-human animals are slaughteredfor several purposes andaims (food, clothing, entertainment,research). An analogoussituation whose objects were humansinstead of animals wouldobviously never be accepted. Butwhy do we tolerate and even...
Political Audiences
A Reception History of Early Italian Television
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
This book deals with the popular reception of early Italian television during the years of the socalled long “economic boom” (1954-1969). To do so, the author focuses on the Catholic and Communist audiences’ perception of the first TV programs. The investigation into these two main groups’...