Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-351) and index.
Contents:
Disparates: "reading what was never written" ; The inexhaustible, or knowledge through imagination ; Legacy of our time: the Mnemosyne Atlas ; Visceral, sidereal, or how to read the liver of a sheep ; Madness and truths of the incommensurable ; Tables for collecting the parcelling out of the world ; Heterotopias, or the cartographies of de-familiarization ; Leopard, starry sky, smallpox, spatter -- Atlas: "carrying the entire world of sufferings" ; A titan bent under the burden of the world ; Gods in exile and knowledge in suffering ; Survivals of tragedy, Aurora of the anxious gay science ' "El sueno de la razon produce monstruos" ; An anthropology from the point of view of the image -- Samples of chaos, or the poetics of phenomena ; Points of origin and links of affinity ; Atlas and The Wandering Jew, or the age of poverty -- Disasters: "the dislocation of the world: that is the subject of art" ; Tragedy of culture and modern "psychomachias" ; Explosions of positivism, or the "crisis of European sciences" ; Warburg in front of the war: Notizkasten 115-118 ; The seismograph explodes ; Panoramic tables to return from the disaster ; The atlas of images and the surveying gaze (Ubersicht) ; The inexhaustible, or knowledge remontage.
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