Subversive Affirmation: On Mimesis as a Strategy of Resistance
"Subverisve Affirmation and over-identification - as 'tactics of explicit concsent' - are forms of critique that through techniques of affirmation, involvement and identification put the viewer/listener precisely in such a state or situation which she or he would or will criticize later. What the various tactics and parasitical practices have in common is that they employ the classical aesthetically methods of: imitation, simulation, mimicry and camouflage in the sense of 'becoming invisble' by disappearing into the background." p445
