Heft 2 (2011) Mimesen
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Item type: Publication , 2013-04-22ZeitschriftenartikelBildnachweisIlinx, Redaktion; Johach, Eva; Mersmann, Jasmin; Rulffes, EvkeItem type: Publication , 2013-04-22ZeitschriftenartikelPygmalions Real GirlRulffes, Evke; Johach, Eva; Mersmann, Jasmin; Rulffes, EvkeItem type: Publication , 2013-04-22ZeitschriftenartikelMimesis und CamouflageFrömming, Urte Undine; Johach, Eva; Mersmann, Jasmin; Rulffes, EvkeItem type: Publication , 2013-04-22ZeitschriftenartikelKill the Chameleon!Leonhard, Karin; Johach, Eva; Mersmann, Jasmin; Rulffes, EvkeItem type: Publication , 2013-04-22ZeitschriftenartikelDer Mimese-KomplexGeble, Peter; Johach, Eva; Mersmann, Jasmin; Rulffes, EvkeItem type: Publication , 2013-04-22ZeitschriftenartikelUniversale Analogien und passionelle SerienJohach, Eva; Johach, Eva; Mersmann, Jasmin; Rulffes, EvkeItem type: Publication , 2013-04-22ZeitschriftenartikelPsychologie als ÜberlebensstrategieCha, Kyung-Ho; Johach, Eva; Mersmann, Jasmin; Rulffes, EvkeThe article adresses the impact of mimicry on social theory. It shows how Friedrich Nietzsche made use of the concept to reconstruct and uncover the genealogy of modern democracy. Drawing on evolutionary theory—both Darwinian and Lamarckian—mimicry is depicted as a mental disposition essential for the strategies used by the weak to survive. As in mimetic animals, these strategies are based on hiding, disguise and deceit. What is of particular importance in this mental disposition is the capacity of anticipating the reactions of the opponent and to show „empathy“. All this, according to Nietzsche, can be seen as integral part of the „slave character“. Therefore, the concept of mimicry is used to discredit democracy as a political order.Item type: Publication , 2013-04-22ZeitschriftenartikelSensing — Feeling — ImitatingEkardt, Philipp; Johach, Eva; Mersmann, Jasmin; Rulffes, EvkeDer Artikel unternimmt – unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der bislang unveröffentlichten Aufzeichnungen zur Ausdruckskunde – eine systematisierende Rekonstruktion von Warburgs fragmentarischer Theorie der Nachahmung. Warburg denkt Mimesis als psychologischen Vorgang, der Perzeptions- und Emotionsprozesse mit affektiven Feedbacks verknüpft, die durch Symbolisierungsleistungen erzeugt werden. Dabei erhält Warburg wesentliche Impulse aus der Einfühlungsästhetik und insbesondere aus Robert Vischers Schrift Das optische Formgefühl. Besonderes Augenmerk gilt den von Warburg beschriebenen Effekten mimetischer Vorgänge: dem Gefühl, das aus dem Ähnlichkeitsabgleich zwischen der Gestalt des wahrnehmenden und des wahrgenommenen Körpers entsteht; der anthropomorphisierend- projektiven Funktion der Ursachensetzung im Wahrgenommenen sowie ihrer psychisch-distanzierenden Funktion. Außerdem skizziert der Text die zeitlichen und strukturellen Variationen, die Warburgs Mimesis-Verständnis im Vergleich zur Nachahmungslehre der klassischen Ästhetik (Winckelmann) anbietet.Item type: Publication , 2013-04-22ZeitschriftenartikelWatch your attitude, young ladyWilson, Eva; Johach, Eva; Mersmann, Jasmin; Rulffes, EvkeIn 1980, the term „Hysteria“ disappeared from the international catalogue of mental disorders DSM-III and was replaced by HPS, „Histrionic personality disorder“. The article traces the histrionic genealogy of hysteria to the 18th century, where aesthetic and ethical discourse, culminating in the idea of the „beautiful soul“, developed at the same time as the concept of an anthropological theory of acting underwent a crucial change: Bodily signs were no longer conceived of as secondary signifiers of an inner emotion but as media and / or transmitters of affect. This paradoxical structure—the demand for internal, intuitive emotions and the complex coding of their „natural“ outward representation specifically within feminine behavioural norms—is exemplified by the biography of Emma Hamilton, whose famous „attitudes“ prefigure Augustine’s hysterical „attitudes passionnelles“ at the Salpêtrière in the 1870s.Item type: Publication , 2013-04-22ZeitschriftenartikelNachgeahmt, gefaked oder gefälscht?Briese, Olaf; Johach, Eva; Mersmann, Jasmin; Rulffes, EvkeA science drama from the years 1725/26: A collector of fossils—Johann Beringer, professor in Würzburg—is reputed to have been the victim of a plot by his colleagues who provided him with fanciful, man-made “fossils” which Beringer proudly presented to the public. It was only several months later that the fake was discovered. Re-reading the sources and considering the time and effort to produce the so-called “Lie Stones”, however, it seems likely that Beringer himself was the forger. This article reconstructs Beringer’s neo-platonic idea of nature on the basis of this assumption. It shows how he was guided by a conception of a divine nature that imitated the prototypes created in pre-historical times. Within this theoretical framework of models and imitations, concepts of “original”, “imitation” and “forgery” were insubstantial.Item type: Publication , 2013-04-22ZeitschriftenartikelWasser, Stein und AutomatenKurth, Silke; Johach, Eva; Mersmann, Jasmin; Rulffes, EvkeThe essay considers the grottoes of the Medici-Villa at Pratolino in regard to their historic relevance in the context of the artistic and typological development as well as their function related to the strategies of princely self-representation. Thereby it will focus less on the moments of mere imitation of the nature than rather on the imitation of the natural creating act itself. The innovative type of the grotto as basement for the grand villa merges the demand of the exclusive Gesamtkunstwerk with contemporary scientific, mechanical and geological cosmological ideas in a new and unique space of world knowledge. This feature as a site of technical experiment and junction of various scientific disciplines, that stylises the ruler as a godlike creator, will be considered in view of further coeval spaces of knowledge. Finally, even the ‘constructed destruction’ of the handmade parallel nature arises as a last act performed by the prince-demiurge.Item type: Publication , 2013-04-19ZeitschriftenartikelLebende Prototypen und lebhafte ArtefakteMüggenburg, Jan; Johach, Eva; Mersmann, Jasmin; Rulffes, EvkeIn the context of its current popularity Bionics is often depicted as a promising approach to design more efficient and sustainable technologies by just copying nature’s solutions. In the present article I am investigating the epistemology of Bionics in regard to its historical roots in Cybernetics and the military-industrial academic complex of the 1960s. The paper argues that the early actors of Bionics were well aware of their discipline’s epistemic constraints and the antagonism between mimesis and abstraction. In fact, as a close look at the research practice at Heinz von Foerster’s Biological Computer Laboratory reveals, the imitation of nature often involved a great deal of tinkering, a little bit of patching up and sometimes even a hint of trickery.Item type: Publication , 2013-04-19ZeitschriftenartikelInhaltsverzeichnisIlinx, Redaktion; Johach, Eva; Mersmann, Jasmin; Rulffes, EvkeItem type: Publication , 2013-04-19ZeitschriftenartikelEditorialJohach, Eva; Rulffes, Evke; Mersmann, Jasmin; Johach, Eva; Mersmann, Jasmin; Rulffes, Evke