Violence and the Mimetic Unconscious, Volume 2: The Affective Hypothesis

by Nidesh Lawtoo

Representations of violence have subliminal contagious effects, but what kind of unconscious captures this imperceptible affective dynamic in the digital age? In volume two of a Janus-faced diagnostic of the cathartic and contagious effects of (new) media violence, Nidesh Lawtoo traces a genealogy of a long-neglected, embodied, relational, and highly mimetic unconscious that, well before the discovery of mirror neurons, posited mirroring reactions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611864658
• ISBN13: 9781611864656
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"