Nidesh Lawtoo

Prof. of European Lit., Theory & Culture @LUCAS_Leiden @UniLeidenNews, PI of @HOM_GMProject, author of Homo Mimeticus (2022).

[Nidesh Lawtoo @nideshlawtoo]

Homo Mimeticus II now OUT! Many thanks to co-editor @MarinaGGranero, the editorial team at @LeuvenUP, and all contributors for widening the reach of #mimeticstudies @HOM_GMProject.
Free download thanks to @ERC_Research support here👇 https://t.co/4blLPvhLib

[Nidesh Lawtoo @nideshlawtoo]

Lecture on #Mimesis, @realDonaldTrump @JDVance, #Fascism now available here:
https://t.co/NjayQYjCl2

[Nidesh Lawtoo @nideshlawtoo]

After Trump election (again!) I will giving the Girard Lecture on "The Urgency of Mimetic Studies: from Imitation to (New) Fascism" @UniLeidenNews.
More information including Zoom link here: https://t.co/ii8Z9cHS5p @COVRscholars @SDFF1066872
& time to leave Twitter too!👋

[Nidesh Lawtoo @nideshlawtoo]

Mimetic Posthumanism is out! FREE download thanks to @ERC_Research support 👇 https://t.co/M7j1CCoIYP
@critposthum @posthumanisms @posthuman_ntwrk
@ThePosthumanLab @Posthuman_Crit @PosthumanitiesH

[Nidesh Lawtoo @nideshlawtoo]

Timely podcast @OnPointRadio with @MeghnaWBUR and Jack Beatty https://t.co/UPPBsnRdjI via @WNYC confirming the ongoing relevance of mimesis for (new) fascism: https://t.co/O6OHOqTSvH
@COVRscholars @msupress

[European Research Council (ERC) @ERC_Research]

💡Who won the 2024 ERC Public Engagement with Research Awards?🏆
We've just announced the names: https://t.co/9xL0HbWmk3

All the #ERCengage laureates in one thread🧵👇

[Nidesh Lawtoo @nideshlawtoo]

Book Launch of Homo Mimeticus II @LeuvenUP @ERC_Research @MarinaGGranero @HOM_GMProject
https://t.co/gSSRuAiOBZ

[IEU. University of Euclid View @IEUeuclidview]

#IEU #EuclidView #IeuReview
@nideshlawtoo
https://t.co/ujmG9OTgcA
Drawing on the theories of classical philosophers and modern thinkers such as Plato, Nietzsche, Le Bon, Freud, and Girard, he analyzes contemporary political issues, examining how politics is reenacted in media and fiction, with 'actors' becoming the new protagonists of politics. He highlights the troubling phenomenon of political reality being fictionalized under the influence of media and mimesis.

The realistic approach and the analysis of real figures like Donald Trump are also strengths of this book. The author uses Trump to concretely illustrate how media and mimesis transform political reality into fiction, thereby making the issues of contemporary politics clearer.

I was delighted by the interdisciplinary approach of this book, and it made me want to explore the rest of the series! It’s still quite challenging for me, so I’ll need to take my time and read it again!
https://t.co/f345FkZQPv

[Nidesh Lawtoo @nideshlawtoo]

Online book launch of Homo Mimeticus II @LeuvenUP co-edited with @MarinaGGranero tomorrow, 17/10, 5pm CET. Zoom Link & free download here: https://t.co/IOcOuINDbq
thanks to @ERC_Research @KULeuvenOpenSc @HOM_GMProject

[Julian Ross @rossjulian]

I'll be in conversation with Chia-Wei Hsu and Hito Steyerl this week, the 2024 and 2015 recipients of the Eye Art & Film Prize. Fri 16:30 @EYE_film. https://t.co/qN2poPJSGr

[Nidesh Lawtoo @nideshlawtoo]

Homo Mimeticus' sequel co-edited with @MarinaGGranero just arrived from @LeuvenUP!
Many thanks to all contributors & @KULeuvenOpenSc + @ERC_Research for making it Open Access. Free download 👉https://t.co/P8GRrfP5WR

[LeuvenUP @LeuvenUP]

Read a Q&A with @nideshlawtoo and @MarinaGGranero, editors of 📖 'Homo Mimeticus II: Re-Turns to Mimesis'
🔗 https://t.co/eN9a7aCpq4

#Imitation #mimeticstudies #intersubjectivity #contagion #biomimicry #identification #mirrorneurons #Plato #Nietzsche #Bataille

[Alexander Verbeek 🌍 @Alex_Verbeek]

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I once hiked to Pulpit Rock in Norway; seeing it from this perspective it looks more scary than I experienced it.

#travel #Norway #hiking

[Homo Mimeticus & Gendered Mimesis @HOM_GMProject]

#ACLA25 Seminars @ACLAorg are now OPEN. Check out this seminar on "Mimetic Studies" organized by @nideshlawtoo & Mathijs Peters @LUCAS_Leiden
https://t.co/60mZVaYnnS

[Nidesh Lawtoo @nideshlawtoo]

@KingsDLLC @KingsCollegeLon @kingsphilosophy @LeidenU Very much looking forward to my visit to @KingsCollegeLon & to presenting the theory of #mimesis internal to @HOM_GMProject @ERC_Research

[Nidesh Lawtoo @nideshlawtoo]

Homo Mimeticus II will be out sooner than planned thanks to wonderful teamwork with @MarinaGGranero @LeuvenUP @ERC_Research & all contributors!
https://t.co/P8GRrfP5WR

[Vittorio Gallese @GalleseVittorio]

“Then impotence turns into rancor, and those who have suffered humiliation proudly express the desire to humiliate others. All they can do, at that point, is be aggressive to those who are weaker. The Trump effect is all here”

[Nidesh Lawtoo @nideshlawtoo]

Homo Mimeticus now available also in Spanish with @Tirant_ESP: https://t.co/3ltFsJ9A47
Many thanks to: @PedroJTeruel (ed.), Jesus Valdes Blanqued (trans.), @MarinaGGranero & @ERC_Research!

[Nidesh Lawtoo @nideshlawtoo]

@ryannevshep: glad that little book @msupress is in circulation inspiring new important work contra (new) fascism...

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

A new mom managed to capture a cute moment when her twins discover each other for the first time.