Imitation and replication: essential disagreements in the subject content and features of the formation of the cultural process.

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to conceptualize the phenomena of imitation and replication and to identify the distinctive features of these processes using examples of cultural practices. The influence of these processes on the cultural progress of mankind is comprehended and the results of such manifestations are analyzed. The research methodology is based on an integrated approach and relies on analytical (when analyzing philosophy, art history, cultural literature on the subject of research) and comparative (when elucidating the distinctive features of imitation and replication and the cause-and-effect relationships of these processes in the course of the cultural development of mankind. research methods. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the fact that for the first time disagreements in the subject content of the concepts of imitation and replication are clarified and the difference in the features of these processes is analyzed. Conclusions. It was revealed that, despite the etymological relationship between the concepts of imitation and replication , in practice, these two phenomena mean different things. Imitation often involves the deliberate copying of the external features of an object, phenomenon, or movement to reproduce an introduction to deception or to bring the features of this object or phenomenon closer to the reproduced original. On the other hand, replication is not always deliberate and conscious, its results are caused by a complex association of ideas and testify to
the manifestations of a long process of aestheticization. It has been proven that it is precisely in the long “nozzle” (repetition) of certain customs of technological means and tools that the reason they, initially strange and unacceptable, become pleasant, expected, and necessary. Deliberate imitation or subconscious replication of the necessary form of another object or animal movements to achieve their goals are ways to implement the artistic process, as a result of which new work is created.
Key words: imitation, replication, mimesis, aestheticization, cultural process.