Girard’s Scapegoat Mechanism as Resolution of Mimetic Crises in Warhammer 40,000
The article applies René Girard’s mimetic theory to the Warhammer 40,000 universe. The author argues that the setting’s mythological architecture is structured by the logic of the scapegoat mechanism at every level of its cosmology. The analysis considers Girard’s Violence and the Sacred (1972) and Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (1978) offering …