...similarities. One need only think of mimicry. The highest capacity for producing similarities, however, is man's. His gift of seeing resemblances is nothing...his mimetic faculty does not play a decisive role. [1978:333] Adomo had much to say about the relation between alleged origins of mankind, mimesis, and...

...to in discussions today. Indeed it is startling. "The gift of seeing resemblances," writes Benjamin, "is nothing other than a rudiment of the powerful...in former times to become and behave like something else."1 Seeing resemblances seems so cerebral, a cognitive affair with the worldly. How on earth, then,...

...create our own simulations of it through mime. As Benjamin noted, 'Perhaps there is none of [man's] higher functions in which his mimetic faculty does not play a decisive role' (1978: 333). By letting us live (in) the world, metaphors enliven our understandings. Weber was too...

...Mimetic Faculty,' Benjamin imbricates a Platonic negative with an Aristotelian positive: '[The human] gift of seeing resemblances is nothing other than...times to become and behave like something else.'™ 'Resemblance' signals the epistemological side of mimesis: the congruence of representation to represented,...

...Benjamin posits the existence of a human mimetic faculty. More than the perception of similarities, it is "a rudiment of the powerful compulsion in former times to become and behave like something else" (Benjamin 1978e:333). In his first selfcontained foray into mimesis, "Doctrine of the Similar," astrology,...

...compulsion. The gift of "seeing resemblances," Walter Benjamin observed, in a very brief essay of I933, is nothing other "than a rudiment of the powerful...in former times to become and behave like something else."64 The logic of this compulsive identification is further defined in an essay written several...

...similarities. One need only think of mimicry. The highest capacity for producing similarities, however, is man's. His gift of seeing resemblances is nothing...which his mimetic faculty does not play a decisive role.12 According to Benjamin, this faculty has a history in both the phylogenetic and the ontogenetic...

...similarities. One need only think of mimicry. The highest capacity for producing similarities, however, is man's. His gift of seeing resemblances is nothing...Perhaps there is none of his higher functions in which the mimetic faculty does not play a decisive role.33 This could be the ur-text of Zapatista masking...

...mimetic faculty. Here Benjamin refers not to the cartoon but to the human faculty for mimicry: "[Man's] gift of seeing resemblances is nothing other than...former times to become and behave like something else." 15 And indeed, the breadth of Eisenstein's examples —Alicein Wonderland (1872, UK),MaxundMoritz (1865,...

...similarities. One only need think of mimicry. The highest capacity for producing similarities, however, is man's. His gift of seeing resemblances is nothing...his mimetic faculty does not play a decisive role. (Walter Benjamin, 'On the Mimetic Faculty', 1986: 333) In Mimesis and Alterity, Michael Taussig offers...