How Art Imitates Life
How the movie V for Vendetta foreshadowed the current COVID-19 crisis
(this original article was written on Medium on 05/10/2020. Before I was kicked off)
Mimesis.
This word is Greek and it means imitation. Not copying in the sense of imitating, but more so, representing. Representation.
Plato and Aristotle both spoke of mimesis as the representation of nature.
According to Plato, all artistic creation is a form of imitation,…
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