Homo imaginatus: Generative Anthropology, prefrontal synthesis and the origins of the human
My task in this piece is to give a different but still plausible account of the emergence of the human within the framework of Generative Anthropology. As an author who aspires to publication in Anthropoetics, I hope I am justified in assuming more than superficial familiarity with Generative Anthro...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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Anthropoetics
Year: 2024, Volume: 30, Issue: 1 |
| Further subjects: | B
Generative anthropology
B Imagination B scenic cognition B prefrontal synthesis B hominization B mimetic crisis |
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| Summary: | My task in this piece is to give a different but still plausible account of the emergence of the human within the framework of Generative Anthropology. As an author who aspires to publication in Anthropoetics, I hope I am justified in assuming more than superficial familiarity with Generative Anthropology and the Originary Hypothesis on the part of readers. Rather than spend time summarizing the GA basics, then, I will begin by articulating some difficulties I have with some of its presuppositions and conclusions. I do this to clear the ground for the introduction of an alternative hypothesis, based on the work of Andrey Vyshedskiy on prefrontal synthesis (PFS). This hypothesis derives from his work on language disorders, but though it diverges from the OH it still comports well with mimetic theory—as well as Generative Anthropology—in spite of being, apparently, ignorant of both. To be clear then, I am appropriating Vyshedskiy’s hypothesis but rearticulating it in line with GA, which prioritizes the sudden emergence of the human as a point of departure for research in the social and human sciences, and never loses sight of the importance of mimesis for any understanding of the human that so suddenly emerged. |
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| Physical Description: | 16 |
| ISSN: | 1083-7264 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Anthropoetics
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