Nidesh Lawtoo teaches philosophy and literature at KU Leuven where he leads the ERC project, Homo Mimeticus. His work revisits the aesthetic, philosophical, and political implications of mimesis. Lawtoo is the editor of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Contemporary Thought: Revisiting the Horror with Lacoue-Labarthe (2012), and the author of The Phantom of the Ego: Modernism and the Mimetic Unconscious (2013), Conrad’s Shadow: Catastrophe, Mimesis, Theory (2016) and (New) Fascism: Contagion, Community, Myth (2019). His next books are a diptych on Violence and the Unconscious, vols., I, II (2023) and a volume that sets new foundations for mimetic studies titled, Homo Mimeticus: A New Theory of Imitation (2022). He also conducted an interview with Nancy, titled “Mimesis: A Singular Plural Concept” CounterText 8.1 (2022).