With monthly meetings open to all, the Metamorphoses Seminar engages in rethinking mimesis as an immanent, embodied and affective force.
Calendar 2022-2023:
Session 7.
Friday, May 26, 2023, 4:30 pm CET, online (Zoom link tba).
with Federica Pedriali, “Bioclastic Living (Latour’s Final Lockdown)”
Readings: here.
Session 6.
April 27, 2023, 4:30 pm CET, online.
with Jorge Estrada, “Deleuzean Sense as Mimetic Precursor”
Voss, Daniela. “Deleuze’s Rethinking of the Notion of Sense”. Deleuze Studies 7.1 (2013): 1–25.
Gilles Deleuze, “Of the Paradox“, The Logic of Sense, Columbia UP, 1990, pp. 74-81.
Session 5.
February 17, 2023, 4:30 pm CET, online.
With Giulia Rignano
C. Malabou, Pleasure Erased: chap.1: pp. 6-13; chap.12: pp.90-96; chap 14: pp.105-109.
C. Malabou, “Epigenetic Mimesis”
Session 4.
January 26, 2023, 4:30 pm CET, online.
With Nidesh Lawtoo, Isabell Dahms
- Catherine Malabou, “Introduction,” What Should We Do With Our Brain?, Fordham University Press, 2008, pp.3-8.
- Catherine Malabou, “Preface,” Morphing Intelligence, Columbia Press, 2019.
- Jairus Grove, “Something Darkly This Way Comes: The Horror of Plasticity in the Age of Control,” Plasticity: The Promise of Explosion, Edinburgh University Press, 2022, pp. 255-258 (last pages).
- Nidesh Lawtoo, “The Plasticity of Mimesis” (chapter 4), in Homo Mimeticus. A New Theory of Imitation, Leuven University Press, 2022,pp. 144-155 (second part).
Session 3.
December 8, 2022, 4:30 pm CET, online
With Nidesh Lawtoo
- Catherine Malabou, “The Example of Plasticity,” Plasticity: The Promise of Explosion, Edinburgh University Press, 2022, pp. 309-320.
- Nidesh Lawtoo, “The Plasticity of Mimesis” (chapter 4), in Homo Mimeticus. A New Theory of Imitation, Leuven University Press, 2022,pp. 129-144 (first part).
- Catherine Malabou and Judith Butler, “You Be My Body for Me: Body, Shape and Plasticity,” in A Companion to Hegel, Blackwell, 2011, pp. 633-640.
November 3, 2022, 5pm CET, online
Session 2.
With Henry Dicks: “The Biomimicry Revolution: Contributions to Mimetic Studies”
- Henry Dicks, The Biomimicry Revolution, Columbia University Press, 2023. Preface and introduction. (proofs; please don’t circulate)
Session 1.
October 6, 2022, 5 pm CET, Salons, Institute of Philosophy – KU Leuven & online
With Nidesh Lawtoo: “Metamorphoses Seminar: Introducing Mimetic Studies”