Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas & Other Warburg Inspirations

Cornell University Library | The Warburg Institute | Cornell University Press | Signale Ten panels from the Mnemosyne Atlas The last project of the German Jewish “cultural scientist” Aby M. Warburg (1866-1929), the Mnemosyne Atlas is an unfinished attempt to map the pathways that give art history and cosmography their pathos-laden meanings. Warburg thought this … Continue reading Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas & Other Warburg Inspirations

Becoming Undone: Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art

Becoming Undone: Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art Elizabeth Grosz Duke University Press, Sep 12, 2011 - Science - 264 pages In Becoming Undone, Elizabeth Grosz addresses three related concepts—life, politics, and art—by exploring the implications of Charles Darwin’s account of the evolution of species. Challenging characterizations of Darwin’s work as a form of … Continue reading Becoming Undone: Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art

SlussenProject, Archiving the ephemeral

From Jacek Smolicki's website: SlussenProject aimed at building an extensive audio database of stories, memories and field recordings characterizing the Slussen area in Stockholm and in particular its unknown and invisible dimensions. The realization of the project has been maintained over six months between December 2012 and May 2013, when the process of demolishing was … Continue reading SlussenProject, Archiving the ephemeral

Derek Jarman’s Blue

Poignant and gorgeous - a film of a single frame of blue and Jarman's account of becoming sightless, losing friends to AIDS, and a variety of other reflections. It would be amazing to sit in a large room watching this film. Segment 1 Interview   Gorgeous: