walter benjamin on the mimetic faculty pdf

Similar' and 'On the Mimetic Faculty,' both written in 1933.

The sensuous correspondences that formerly governed nature find their true importance in human beings, whose gift for mimesis they are said by Benjamin to 'stimulate and awaken.' Consequently, according to Benjamin, the mimetic faculty is a deeply historical human product, one that has changed with historical development (331). 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.Ĭoenesthesia 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. Like Benjamin, Michael Taussig thinks that the mimetic faculty is the nature that culture uses to create second nature, the faculty to copy, imitate, make models, explore differences, yield into and become Other.

Walter benjamin on the mimetic faculty pdf