But, I ultimately suggest that what has been so seductive about mimesis throughout history is that it offers a “way out” of political confrontation. I explore how this works in biomimetics, with a detailed look at one of the most celebrated examples of the biomimetic paradigm: the gecko's foot. I show how mimesis promises a way toward a future free from human hubris and ecological catastrophe-and a way out of the conditions that have created the Anthropocene. This essay explores how mimesis has once again been endowed with revolutionary potential in the contemporary moment through the growing field of biomimicry. Adorno-that located in the mimetic faculty a way out of a techno-fetishized social milieu. Taussig drew explicitly on a tradition of earlier twentieth-century scholarship-Walter Benjamin, Roger Caillois, and Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. In 1993 Michael Taussig's Mimesis and Alterity revitalized the power of the mimetic faculty to craft a vision of nature that was neither the alienated subject of modern science nor the passively malleable medium of late twentieth-century social constructivism.