March 3, 2017
MIMESIS & MIMETIC THEORY
Mimesis means imitation (from the Greek, it has been pronounced both “mim-e-sis” or mim-ay-sis). In terms of the Mimetic Theory, mimesis is best understood as
March 3, 2017
THE PILLARS OF CULTURE: PROHIBITION, RITUAL AND MYTH
If Girard’s anthropological researches have demonstrated one thing, it is the quasi-universality both of sacrifice and of the ‘emissary’ or scapegoat mechanism in all known
March 3, 2017
The Scapegoat
When in the course of human relationships, we find ourselves in conflict over commonly desired objects, mimetically entangled as it were, we may not kill