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.

3.11 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 184
ISBN: 9788869772207
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2020
Series: Hasekura League Intercultural Studies Editions
Description:
The Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of March 11, 2011 was a complex event. It was a disaster of multiple dimensions, unleashing the linked forces of seismic shock, tsunami, and nuclear radiation. This confluence left a varied array of damage in its wake.
History of Cinema Without Names/4 Exposing the Moving Image Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 516
ISBN: 9788869772306
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2020
Series: Udine/Gorizia Conference Proceedings
Illustrations: 140
Description:
The XXV FilmForum Cinematic Medium Across World Fairs, Art Museums, and Cultural Exhibitions conference has been devoted to exploring the interrelations between moving images, the cinematic medium and other arts and media as seen through global exhibiting events, such as the Large International Exhibitions, the Universal Expositions and the world fairs throughout the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. The general aim has been to shed light on the meaningful interrelations between moving images, media and arts throughout modernity and postmodernity – which means encompassing the pre-cinema, cinema and post-cinema eras, with a specific focus on Universal Expositions. In fact, the Universal Expositions proved to be a crucial and privileged field of excavation and investigation on the emergence as well as on the fluctuant re-configurations of the moving images within the broad media environment of the modern era.
Adorno and Popular Music Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 140
ISBN: 9788869772238
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2019
Series: Aesthetics
Description:
This book collects Adornian contributions on different trends, genres and artists belonging to the broad and complex and in-itself-articulated field of popular music. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Adorno’s death, this book aims to represent an important contribution for the international community of Adorno scholars and, additionally, for scholars of both philosophy and musicology in general, in order to assess and celebrate the persistent actuality of Adorno’s contribution to the understanding of popular music in the context of the dynamics and processes of the culture industry. But the book also aims to critically rethink some of the main concepts and themes of Adorno's influential philosophy of music and thus to develop it at a further level, also intersecting it with other philosophical perspectives or adapting it when necessary to the partially changed conditions of popular music in our time in comparison to his epoch.
Solidarity Bodies Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9788869772290
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2019
Series: Sociology
Description:
This book aims to investigate the phenomenon of volunteering as a workfare event, as a synchronous rewriting of territorial policy and advocacy, according to the principles of risk and border. The two terms, as a solid sociological category, shed light on the material and semantic shift of European welfare. Beyond its contents, this book represents an important research experience of a complex European-wide survey network on the phenomenon of volunteering and a best practice of collaboration and cultural exchange between university researchers and men and women that work in the fi eld of social policies concretely and every day.
Philosophical News N.13 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 166
ISBN: 9788869771170
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2019
Series: Philosophical News
Description:
Philosophical News is the official publication of the European Society for Moral Philosophy. It is a semi-annual journal of philosophy born from the collaboration of a number of international scholars as well as an intense editorial effort. The aim of the journal is to promote research and reflection with special regard to the contemporary debate in all its different cultural manifestations.
Intertwining Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9788869772702
Pub Date: 15 Oct 2019
Series: Intertwining
Description:
After the 2018 Davos Declaration it’s been perceived as extremely urgent a return to urban transformation practices linked with cultural values. What does this mean? What kind of values should designers, planners, and public administrators put at the center of their decision-making process?
Design (&) Activism Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9788869772412
Pub Date: 01 Oct 2019
Series: Design Meanings
Description:
This is a book about how the worlds of design and activism (could) inspire each other. As Design and its conceptual, functional, aesthetic, speculative and interventional concepts inevitably affect our lives, it often actively interferes in common definitions, understandings and opinion making, which offers opportunities for ideological engagement (in a good or in a bad sense). The book focuses on theories and practices related to the role of Design in terms of addressing, provoking and creating political discourse.
Autoréférence Infinie Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 220
ISBN: 9788869772214
Pub Date: 31 Jul 2019
Series: Art
Illustrations: 35 color
Description:
In past years, Miquel Barceló has been depicted in various and yet contrasting ways, including the new Picasso, the rebel, the genius, or the joker. This book’s primary goal is to situate the artist within contemporary critical debate, discussing his production during the Postmodern Era and analysing his affinity with Hypermodernity. Through the comparison of Barcelό’s writings, declarations, and works, the study examines the artist’s autofiction, creating a connection between his hyperindividualism (which is discussed in relation to the Hypermodern Era) and the oceanic feeling.
A Petty Statesman Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9788869772283
Pub Date: 25 Jul 2019
Series: Politics
Description:
David Hume was not only a lover of political speculation, who dealt with politics in his most important works, but also an expert in military strategies and techniques; a friend and confidant of generals, ministers, parliamentarians, local administrators, dukes, and barons. He was also a talented diplomat, a moderate member of the British government, and an original interpreter of international affairs and war, which he experienced first-hand on the battlefield. Nevertheless, until today, Hume’s practical experience as statesman has not been adequately considered.
The Mediterranean as a Source of Cultural Criticism Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 100
ISBN: 9788869771361
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2019
Series: Anthropology
Illustrations: 3
Description:
The essays contained in this volume explore the historical trajectories along which the Mediterranean has been conceptualized as a cultural, religious and economical resource and how these various aspects are intertwined. While staying clear of a merely “imagological” or “representational” point of view, the authors consider the interplay between culturally shaped attributions (for example the longstanding desire for a Mediterranean “Otherness” as expressed in German literature), their testing in empirical encounters, and the effect these encounters produce on both sides. Although focused particularly on 19th and 20th century culture, this volume offers a timely contribution to conceptualising the challenges of the 21st century.
The Brutality of Things Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 140
ISBN: 9788869772177
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2019
Series: Aesthetics
Description:
In every psychic experience, even in the production of a work of art, there exists a nucleus that is impossible to transform. It resists any and every action against itself. We are used to dealing with these irreducible and radical othernesses by adapting them to our own way of knowing and our experience.
CINÉMA&CIE, INTERNATIONAL FILM STUDIES JOURNAL, VOL. XIX, no. 31, FALL 2018 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 162
ISBN: 9788869772320
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2019
Series: CINÉMA&CIE, International Film Studies Journal
Description:
Pop music meets the media..
Cinema and Ontology Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9788869771606
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2019
Series: Philosophy
Description:
The essays presented in this volume investigate the relationship between cinema and ontology. This investigation unfolds, on the one hand, through an ontological understanding of cinema, that is, an understanding of the specificity of if its being. On the other hand, it highlights the ways in which cinema can help us to shed some light on the domain of ontology, namely, what exists.
Caporalato Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 104
ISBN: 9788869772191
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2019
Series: Sociology
Description:
The essay investigates the effects produced by criminal networks involved in the production and harvest of agricultural products. Focused on the analysis of caporalato , it explores the enslavement of immigrant agricultural labourers and territorial segregation practices. Moreover, it deals with the topic of the agromafi as’ role and discusses matters related to the deregulation of the agricultural market, as well as the general crisis of the agroindustries.
Retold Resold Transformed Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 168
ISBN: 9788869771736
Pub Date: 27 Jun 2019
Series: Literature
Description:
In recent decades crime fiction has enjoyed a creative boom. Although, as Alison Young argues in her book Imagining Crime (1996), crime stories remain strongly identified with specific locations, the genre has acquired a global reach, illuminating different corners of the world for the delectation of international audiences. The recent fashion for Nordic noir has highlighted the process by which the crime story may be franchised, as it is transposed from one culture to another.
Atmospheres of Learning Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 170
ISBN: 9788869771729
Pub Date: 31 May 2019
Series: Atmospheric Spaces
Illustrations: 5
Description:
Socialization in childhood and at a young age is marked, not only by measurable factors such as age, sex, ethnic group, religion or parents’ income, but also by variables such as depression, aggressiveness, inner calm or serenity. It makes all the difference whether a child experiences during their development an atmosphere of acceptance, gladness and emotional warmth, or one of depreciation, indifference and emotional coldness. The atmosphere in which a child is brought up shapes them as people, at least as much as the measurable factors of their social context.