Introduction: Morphing Mimetic Studies Nidesh Lawtoo and Willow VerkerkPrologue: The Four Metamorphoses of Plasticity: Proteus to Figura, Self-Care to the Overhuman Nidesh LawtooPART I — GENEALOGIES OF MIMETIC PLASTICITYChapter 1: Epigenetic Mimesis: Natural Brains and Synaptic Chips Catherine MalabouChapter 2: Plasticity, Mimesis, Transformativity: A Genealogy of Theories of Change Tom BolandChapter 3: Material Mimetism: On Plastics, Plasticity and Mimesis Alice IacoboneChapter 4: Negative Plasticity and the Indifference of the Body Kristian SchaeferlingPART II — PLASTIC ENCOUNTERS AND MIMETIC STUDIESChapter 5: Benjamin’s Great Criminal, a Plastic Mime Gabriel WartingerChapter 6: To Double Mimesis Bound: Mortal Plasticity between Malabou and Lacoue-Labarthe Alex ObrigewitschChapter 7: Eroticism, Gender and the Possibility For Transformation: With and Beyond Merleau-Ponty Ida DjursaaChapter 8: Mimesis, Resonance and the Subject: A Critical Comparison Mathijs PetersPART III — FROM NEUROLITERATURE TO THE MIMETIC SUBCONSCIOUSChapter 9: Semiosis and Mimesis Sergey ZenkinChapter 10: Neuroliterature and the Example Tyler M. WilliamsChapter 11: Proust, Realism and the Plasticity of Natural Signs Ian JamesChapter 12: Conflicting Subliminalities: The Other Ancestors of Mimesis Catherine MalabouCoda: The Three Metamorphoses of Mimesis: Thinking with Catherine Malabou Catherine Malabou and Nidesh LawtooNotes on ContributorsNew interdisciplinary essays on key topics in mimetic studies, including three contributions by internationally renowned philosopher Catherine MalabouThis is the third volume of a trilogy on Homo Mimeticus, yet in no way does it seek to bring mimetic studies to an end. On the contrary, the ambition of this book is to further the mimetic turn via a new beginning. In collaboration with the French philosopher Catherine Malabou, international contributors argue that plasticity—understood in its double capacity to receive form and to give form—plays a transformative role in the many lives of homo mimeticus qua homo plasticus. Ranging from philosophy to literature, sociology to semiology, the plastic arts to neurobiology, and addressing subjects as diverse as epigenetic mimesis and neuroliterature, plastic figures and the mimetic subconscious, Homo Mimeticus III shows that both new materialisms and mimetic studies are central to affirming plastic metamorphoses in the twenty-first century.In collaboration with Catherine Malabou