ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that mimesis is with the prospects for a sensuous knowledge in our time, a knowledge that in adhering to the skin of things through realist copying disconcerts and entrances by spinning off into fantastic formations. It discusses that G.W.F. Hegel, the sensuous moment of knowing includes a yielding and mirroring of the knower in the unknown, of thought in its object. The chapter examines the notion of mimesis used at the end of the nineteenth century by James George Frazer, author of The Golden Bough, at Cambridge University. It insists on breaking away from the tyranny of the visual notion of image. The chapter moves from image to scene, and from scene to performative action. It emphasizes the bodily impact of imaging, to the point where Contact is displaced from its Frazerian context to become the term required for conveying the physiognomic effect of imagery.
