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WARBURG'S HAUNTED HOUSE.

An essay is presented on Mnemosyne Atlas project by Aby Warburg. It says that the Mnemosyne Atlas serves as a sampling tool in terms of juxtaposed images. It mentions the insights of Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze concerning the superior empiricism of Warburg's project. Moreover, it notes that Wa...

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Published in:Common Knowledge Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 50 - 79
Main Author: Didi-Huberman, Georges
Format: Essay
Published: Duke University Press Winter2012
Subjects:
Sampling (Process)
Guattari, Félix, 1930-1992
Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995
Warburg, Aby, 1866-1929
Empiricism
Chaos theory
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:An essay is presented on Mnemosyne Atlas project by Aby Warburg. It says that the Mnemosyne Atlas serves as a sampling tool in terms of juxtaposed images. It mentions the insights of Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze concerning the superior empiricism of Warburg's project. Moreover, it notes that Warburg's project can be considered as a collection of Caprichos explicitly presented as a sampling of chaos in collective imaginations and individual psyches.