Mimesis International

Mimesis International was launched at the end of 2013 on the initiative of Mimesis Group, which includes Éditions Mimésis and Mimesis Edizioni. With a catalogue of 4,000 book titles, Mimesis Edizioni is one of the leading Italian publishing houses in the humanities. Their support for free thinking led them to open towards different and merging research fields in the human sciences while maintaining a keen interest in philosophy. As an academic publishing company, they work in synergy and close collaboration with several European universities and cultural centres. In this European and cosmopolitan spirit, they publish their texts in English and, as in the case of scientific journals, they also feature multilingual contributions.

Heliacal Phenomena Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 243
ISBN: 9788857516349
Pub Date: 30 Dec 2014
Description:
Heliacal Phenomena is a parallel to the author's Eclipses, being another astronomical introduction for Humanists. The aim is that of providing Humanists with a general overview on the importance of heliacal phenomena from the standpoints of history, literature, astronomy. The book is an invitation for students and scholars to consider this subject, as it has been incredibly useful to science, agriculture, people in several ways.
Porn After Porn Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9788857523590
Pub Date: 30 Dec 2014
Description:
After the “digital turn,” sexual representations have been increasing both quantitatively (thanks to the multiplication of production and distribution channels) and qualitatively (giving rise to a plurality of new representational forms). In this context, several social groups – including women and non-normative sexual subcultures – have obtained full citizenship rights within the “pornosphere,” moving beyond their traditional marginalization or, indeed, exclusion. These “nonconventional” pornographies exist in a dialectical relationship with mainstream production insofar as they are at the same time a development and a repudiation of the latter (on an aesthetic, economic and political level).
Yaghnobi Studies I Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9788857521824
Pub Date: 30 Dec 2014
Description:
The present volume collects some contributions about the Yaghnob Valley inspired by or directly developed in the framework of the various scientific missions of the University of Bologna in Tajikistan (2007-2012). The articles here collected follow, as far as it is possible, a chronological order, starting with the studies concerning the history of the Yaghnobis considered in the framework of the Upper Zarafšan region, beginning from the Sogdian period to the early Islamic age, up to those essays focusing on ethno-linguistics and related political aspects. Thus, old questions have to face new problems and social needs, in a very delicate and politically complex area, which now is experiencing a deep economic crisis, but that holds important energetic and mining resources.
Chiasmi International n. 11 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 498
ISBN: 9788857500263
Pub Date: 01 Nov 2014
Description:
From Italy to Mexico, and all the way to Japan, then returning to the United States. By spanning the annus mirabilis which has witnessed the centenary of Merleau-Ponty’s birth celebrated everywhere, Chiasmi International has captured some of its most important echoes in this issue which presents as well important news in the journal’s structure. The relocation of its American seat and a change in direction accompany the contributions of Merleau-Ponty specialists who are the most representative of four different generations.
Chiasmi International n. 13 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 576
ISBN: 9788857507613
Pub Date: 01 Nov 2014
Description:
Merleau-Ponty cinquante ans après sa mort: éléments pour une biographie intellectuelleMerleau-Ponty fifty years after his death: desiderata for an intellectual biographyMerleau-Ponty a cinquant’anni dalla morte: elementi per una biografia intellettualedossier // special section:Merleau-Ponty et Deleuze. Dissonances et résonancesMerleau-Ponty and Deleuze. Dissonances and resonancesMerleau-Ponty e Deleuze.
Chiasmi International n. 14 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 530
ISBN: 9788857512778
Pub Date: 01 Nov 2014
Description:
Merleau-Ponty : Sciences, images, events **** dossiers // special sections : Merleau -Ponty et les sciences / MERLEAU-PONTY AND SCIENCES / Merleau-Ponty e le scienze La réalité de l’imaginaire / Reality of the Imaginary / La realtà dell’immaginario **** varia // diverse **** COMPTES RENDUS // REVIEWS // RECENSIONI Texts by: Josep Maria Bech, Etienne Bimbenet, Guillaume Carron, Daniela De Leo, Philippe Descola, RobertaDreon, Simone Frangi, MarcelloGhilardi, TimIngold, ChristopherLapierre, Mariana Larison, Kwok-ying Lau, Len Lawlor, Federico Leoni, Mara Meletti, David Morris, Marcos- José Müller Granzotto, Elena Pagni, Pierre Rodrigo, Stéphane Roy-Desrosiers, Marcus Sacrini, EmmanueldeSaintAubert, DavideScarso, DominiqueSéglard, Luca Vanzago, Shiloh Whitney, Keith Withmoyer.
Chiasmi International n. 15 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 500
ISBN: 9788857518633
Pub Date: 01 Nov 2014
Description:
Existence, diacritiques, animalité Existence, Diacritics, Animality Esistenza, diacritico, animalità *** DOSSIERS – SPECIAL SECTIONS – DOSSIERS Merleau-Ponty – Patočka : un rendez-vous manqué Merleau-Ponty – Patočka: a Missed Encounter Merleau-Ponty – Patočka: un incontro mancato Merleau-Ponty, Saussure, et l’instance du diacritique Merleau-Ponty, Saussure, and the Diacritical Merleau-Ponty, Saussure e l’istanza del diacritico Phénoménologie de l’animalité Phenomenology of Animality Fenomenologia dell’animalità *** Varia Diverse Varia COMPTES RENDUS REVIEWS RECENSIONI *** IN MEMORIAM Hugh J. Silverman (1945-2013) textes de // texts by // testi di: Emmanuel Alloa, Christiane Bailey, Renaud Barbaras, Donald Beith, Jakub Čapek, Nicolas Dittmar, Duicu Dragoş, Annabelle Dufourcq, Anna Petronella Foultier, Simone Gustafsson, Frédéric Jacquet, Richard Kearney, Eliška Luhanová, James Mensch, Karel Novotný, David Peña-Guzmán, Tano Posteraro, Pierre Rodrigo, Emre şan, Marco Spina, Beata Stawarska, Ondřej Švec, Elena Tavani, Ted Toadvine, Peter Warnek, Clélia Zernik
Chiasmi International n. 7 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 423
ISBN: 9788884833273
Pub Date: 01 Nov 2014
Description:
Chiasmi International publishes for the first time two previously unpublished working notes from Merleau-Ponty that date from 1959 and the first chapter of a previously unpublished text that Simondon had written some years earlier: texts that testify to the intersecting reflections that Merleau-Ponty and Simondon were conducting on one of the most decisive themes for the philosophy of the 20th Century: individuation. Some authors, who are among the best known specialists in the question of individuation, make their contributions bear on the subject matter of these texts, and on the relations between the thought of Merleau-Ponty and that of Simondon. The theme of the second section is the topic of life, which runs across Merleau-Ponty’s lectures on nature, and shows itself to be perfectly complementary of that of the first one.
Time And Cross-Temporal Relations Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 238
ISBN: 9788857523903
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2014
Series: Philosophy
Description:
According to both ordinary and scientific thought, two objects can enter into relation not only simultanously, but also at different times, namely cross-temporally. For instance, we understand comparisons between entities as they are at different times, such as when we say that John is now taller than Michael was three years ago; causally related events are often not simultaneous, and objects of perceptions and perceivers usually have different temporal locations (we see ordinary things as they were a few milliseconds ago, we see the sun as it was eight minutes ago, and so on). However, many philosophers consider cross-temporality deceptive.
Paolo Gioli Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 90
ISBN: 9788857523576
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2014
Illustrations: b/w illustrations
Description:
In a historical moment when cinema is definitively abandoning analogue production, the cinematographic work of Paolo Gioli occupies an important and meaningful place in the academic and artistic debate related to the present and future position of cinema and media art in the digital era. For this reason, the Film Forum Festival decided to organize a one-day seminar in Gorizia on 17th March 2013 in order to analyze and discuss the artistic production of this Italian artist. This book records and expands topics and reflections developed by international scholars and curators during that event and contains an original text by Paolo Gioli about his cinema and his artistic production.
The Archives Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 236
ISBN: 9788857523613
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2014
Illustrations: b/w illustrations
Description:
The digital age has witnessed the development of a new kind of archive: immaterial, “living and moving,” largely user-generated, and conceived for managing a wide variety of audio-visual materials, besides traditional films and videos. The first part of this anthology investigates the ways in which media forms like web-documentaries, video art and digital art, web series, amateur productions, and also mobile films can be stored and preserved within the new digital repositories. The second part focuses on archival and preservation practices of the video game.
Only For Them Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 150
ISBN: 9788857524184
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2014
Description:
Year after year, day after day, minute after minute, billions of non-human animals are slaughtered for several purposes and aims (food, clothing, entertainment, research). An analogous situation whose objects were humans instead of animals would obviously never be accepted. But why do we tolerate and even justify one practice while deploring the other?
After The Yemeni Spring Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 238
ISBN: 9788857514376
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2014
Series: Politics
Description:
The role of Yemen in the War on Terror throughout the 2000s has been crucial. It is a complex country, all too often trivialized by statistics focusing on its inconvenient position as the youngest and poorest country in the Arab world. Working on the most updated economic, social, political, and strategic data, the authors bring the attention to the new scenarios after Saleh’s era, in which Yemenis are called to rebuild their country and outline a new national pact for the future.
All Over Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 74
ISBN: 9788857519951
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2014
Description:
All over is a collection of epic songs, of epinician odes for our day. The heroes praised are boxers, men the author identifies as the last able to truly astound, to induce awe. These epinician odes on Pindaric models are transformed in the making.
Millennium London Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 122
ISBN: 9788857513393
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2014
Series: Architecture
Description:
This study explores different visions of contemporary London using the tools of cultural and literary studies and comparing works by Iain Sinclair and Will Self. Both indebted to the tradition of psychogeography, these two authors consider the act of walking as the best way to investigate the changes, evolutions and revisions of the city. For both, London is basically an experience where the physical and topographical environment evokes the endless reservoir of films, novels, images, and cultural materials that finds in this city a fruitful source of inspiration.
Nation And/Or Homeland Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 122
ISBN: 9788857512433
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2014
Series: Music
Description:
How was national consciousness developed? The present book aims to investigate such matter trough a series of different case studies, in which the terms nation, homeland and people have been applied. This Romantic lexicon identifies similar conceptions of the national idea in some countries dominated by Italian, German and Slavic cultures, and in some groups or minorities such as the Jews and the Vlachs in Central and Mediterranean Europe.