...Neal Curtis This article explores the relationship between mimesis and fantasy. Taking as its starting point James DerDerian's claims regarding the changing face of the military-industrial complex and its increasing use of the entertainment and cultural industries, the article argues that this move...

... observed in elite, and other, lives. Luxury enclosure of elites suggests related problems on the horizons of the mass distribution and experience of immersive technologies. © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 luxury enclosure mimesis immersive technologies The study of luxury has most commonly...

... which is often lacking in many aesthetic theories in architecture. The key to Leach’s enterprise is not to recreate an architectural ontology; instead, he travels in the realms of psychic life, taking on the idea of mimesis – as old as its Greek etymological form and as new as the latest genetic...

... computers from the top down, from Bill Gates's business calculus down to the many single parts, we (men, programming minions, Stanford students) are only performing mimesis, even mimicry of that one god, who believes he can do as a creator without a woman and love. Let's not be surprised then when computers...

... become a hallmark of this group of contemporary designers may well have other explanations for this visual mimesis—I think it also has a wider implication for the study of luxury today and particularly for critical luxury studies, the emerging discipline that provided the initial context for this article...

... confusion, struggle, scrimmage, mimesis, business, and spectacle. As a consequence, if there is a Sloterdijk Affair in the German media and in the French newspapers, with epicenters in Israel and Brazil (bastions of a globalized Habermasianism), and if it’s given rise to a broad and relatively agitated...

... Richards . Smith D. 1990 . From the Land of Shadows: The Making of Grey Owl . Saskatoon : Western Producer Prairie Books . Sneve V. 1987 . “ Remembering Minnehaha. ” Country Living , November: 72 . Taussig M. 1993 . Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the...

... convention, both in relation to the interminable arguments in the social sciences between versions of technological and social determinism (and indeed their mimesis in similar silliness in more popular press), our focus as the essay proceeds oscillates between what might commonly be called “social” change...

..., and a characteristic of the lifestyle of the generation born in the 1980s. Even a cursory glance at “Canon-Mocking Literature” will identify parody as one of its most basic rhetorical devices. Breaking with the canonical doctrine of mimesis that treats the imitated object as a model to emulate...