ABSTRACT
This chapter emphasizes how mimesis, as either an unadorned human faculty or one revived in modernity by mimetic machines, is a capacity that alerts one to the contactual element of the visual contract with reality. It intimates that just as mimesis as a necessary part of thinking the concrete involves world history, especially that confluence of colonial factors resulting in primitivism, so by definition world history cannot be thought of outside the mimetic faculty itself. The chapter emphasises the worldliness of this history—in which the sails as images develops into concepts according to how they are set. It asserts that in a terribly real sense, the practice of mimesis in one’s day, inseparable from imaging and thinking itself, involves the rehearsal of the practices of the body associated with primitivism. The chapter explains the alleged coupling of primitiveness with mighty miming, how do people understand this to bear upon an aspect of life.
