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One of the most striking paradigm shifts of the last decades in the humanities has been the replacement of a method of knowledge rooted in historicist temporal constructions with one based on spatial models. There is perhaps no better example of this movement from the temporalization to the spatialization of knowledge than the adoption of the atlas as a taxonomic term in cultural criticism.
Keywords: Assemblage; Warburg, Aby; Illustrated atlas; Cartography; Knowledge representation; Historicism; Totality (philosophy); Spatial turn; Archives
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Part of De/Constituting Wholes Containing:
[Frontmatter] /
Beginnings / Manuele Gragnolati, Christoph F. E. Holzhey
Sexual Ghosts and the Whole of History / Volker Woltersdorff
Things I Learned from the Book of Ruth / Ruth Preser
Claims of Existence between Biopolitics and Thanatopolitics / Eirini Avramopoulou
Differently Queer / Manuele Gragnolati
Warburg’s Ghost
Hegel and the Ad-venture of the Totality / Jamila M.H. Mascat
The Innate Plasticity of Bodies and Minds / Robert Meunier, Valentine Reynaud
Pumping Honey / Arnd Wedemeyer
An Eclipse of the Screen / Marcus Coelen
[Backmatter] /
Title
Warburg’s Ghost
Subtitle
On Literary Atlases and the ‘Anatopic’ Shift of a Cartographic Object
Author(s)
Filippo Trentin
Identifier
https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-11_06
Description
One of the most striking paradigm shifts of the last decades in the humanities has been the replacement of a method of knowledge rooted in historicist temporal constructions with one based on spatial models. There is perhaps no better example of this movement from the temporalization to the spatialization of knowledge than the adoption of the atlas as a taxonomic term in cultural criticism.
Is Part Of
De/Constituting Wholes
Place
Vienna
Publisher
Turia + Kant
Date
2017
Subject
Assemblage
Warburg, Aby
Illustrated atlas
Cartography
Knowledge representation
Historicism
Totality (philosophy)
Spatial turn
Archives
Rights
© by the author(s)
This version is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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Bibliographic Citation
Filippo Trentin, ‘Warburg’s Ghost: On Literary Atlases and the ‘Anatopic’ Shift of a Cartographic Object’, in De/Constituting Wholes: Towards Partiality Without Parts, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Manuele Gragnolati, Cultural Inquiry, 11 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2017), pp. 101–29 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-11_06>
Language
en-GB
page start
101
page end
129
Source
De/Constituting Wholes: Towards Partiality Without Parts, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Manuele Gragnolati, Cultural Inquiry, 11 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2017), pp. 101–29
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Cite as: Filippo Trentin, ‘Warburg’s Ghost: On Literary Atlases and the ‘Anatopic’ Shift of a Cartographic Object’, in De/Constituting Wholes: Towards Partiality Without Parts, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Manuele Gragnolati, Cultural Inquiry, 11 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2017), pp. 101–29 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-11_06>