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Date Posted: 20:59:35 04/13/08 Sun
Author: Jfish
Subject: Re: Anti-Mimetic Mimesis
In reply to: Cara 's message, "Anti-Mimetic Mimesis" on 17:24:21 04/06/08 Sun

Nonetheless, I'm not sure I'd say that Anti-Mimetic mimesis is always bad. For instance, we are encouraged to "think for yourself." Usually, this is encouraged by a thinker who shows us how to read texts, interpret them, tie them together and criticize them. So this thinker actually gives us ways to imitate him (it wouldn't be a woman!) by encouraging us to be different.
That's the trouble with mimesis. No matter what you're going to imitate. Or at least, there will never be a way that one can act that can never be construed as some form of imitation. This is because we always make associations; its simply how thinking works. The point is, I don't think we should treat the myth of originality like a wayward son but rather keep it in context. After all, even Girard qualifies his problem with originality. He says it rarely happens, not that it never does.

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