mimesis

is defined such that an insect mimics a leaf not to meld with its surrounds, but to reenter the higher realm of predatory animal warfare on a new footing.

Resemblance is a beginning masking the advent of whole new vital dimension. This even applies to mimickry in nature. An insect that mimics a leaf does so not to meld with the vegetable state of its surrounding milieu, but to reenter the higher realm of predatory animal warfare on a new footing. (Massumi 1987 : pdf).

is that which transforms undecidability into decidability.

think of the ideal that 'undecidability is transformed into decidability through imitation' (Luhmann Observations 98).

is the fiction of representing that which was never present to begin with.

Lacoue-Labarthe will subsequently argue that mimesis is 'undecidability 'itself',' and that 'the 'essence' of mimesis. . . [is] the very lapse 'itself' of 'essence'. . . [or] what is 'proper' to mimesis. . . [is] the fact that mimesis has no 'proper' to it, ever.'72 Mimesis is nevertheless the condition which allows for the possibility of representation for it is always already a (re)presentation of that which is not 'present.'73 And it is in this context that Lacoue-Labarthe finds a necessary double bind, a bind from which he believes philosophy cannot escape. This double bind calls for the the necessity of (re)presenting that which was never present, or, it is impossible to fiction the fictioning process, but it is impossible not to fiction it' (NET)

is undecidability itself. It has no proper to it, ever but is nevertheless the condition which allows for the possibility of representation, for it is always already a (re)presentation of that which is not 'present.

Lacoue-Labarthe will subsequently argue that mimesis is 'undecidability 'itself',' and that 'the 'essence' of mimesis. . . [is] the very lapse 'itself' of 'essence'. . . [or] what is 'proper' to mimesis. . . [is] the fact that mimesis has no 'proper' to it, ever.'72 Mimesis is nevertheless the condition which allows for the possibility of representation for it is always already a (re)presentation of that which is not 'present.'73 And it is in this context that LacoueLabarthe finds a necessary double bind, a bind from which he believes philosophy cannot escape. This double bind calls for the the necessity of (re)presenting that which was never present, or, it is impossible to fiction the fictioning process, but it is impossible not to fiction it' (NET)

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