ABSTRACT
Mimesis was understood as a form of expression for the sensory presence of something that is observed in the ceremonies. Plato uses mimesis in a philosophical sense to criticise the truth claim of poetry. In Poetics, Aristotle shows that mimesis belongs to humanity from childhood on, as it is with the help of mimesis that we learn and acquire new knowledge. Sabine Bayerls sees a Utopian potential in Adorno's dialectical concept of mimesis, that is, in the enchantment that art, as a leftover of the magical phase. In Georg Lukacs' later work, mimesis is a general capacity of the human consciousness. Luce Irigaray links phallic power with Plato's mimesis. Julia Kristeva uses Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of the carnival in the sense of transgression. Halberstam describes Lesbians on Ecstasy as a contemporary queer band, who presents alternative forms of cultural production in that they play with the idea of the cover song.
