Réne Girard’s theory of mimetic desire:
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- Jan 2024
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4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com 4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com
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- Mar 2023
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networkcultures.org networkcultures.org
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Thiel turns to Girard, as ‘the new science of humanity must drive the idea of imitation, mimesis, much further than it has in the past’, where ‘it is not overly reductionist to describe human brains as gigantic imitation machines’
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Peter Thiel, saw in Facebook a capitalist enterprise whose engine of representation and then imitation – mimesis – was theorised by his own philosophical master René Girard as the hidden truth of civilisation.
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