Digitising Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas

Archives are being digitised on an enormous scale worldwide, and the connections between Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas and the contemporary digital accumulation of data have not been lost on contemporary scholars. By problematising what I suggest is a simplified relation between repetition and repli...

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Published inTheory, culture & society Vol. 37; no. 5; pp. 3 - 26
Main Author le Fevre Grundtmann, Naja
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.09.2020
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Accumulation
Discrepancies
Discrimination
Repetition
Mnemosyne Atlas
discrimination
networks
repetition
Aby Warburg
digitisation
pattern recognition
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Summary:Archives are being digitised on an enormous scale worldwide, and the connections between Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas and the contemporary digital accumulation of data have not been lost on contemporary scholars. By problematising what I suggest is a simplified relation between repetition and replication in the transmission of Warburg’s body of work into a digital era, I believe that an engagement with contemporary digital discourse provides the possibility of seeing his work in a new light while allowing for insights into how Warburg might be instrumental in rendering visible possible discrepancies between individual entities and larger collective patterns, whether within his Mnemosyne Atlas or among datasets more broadly speaking.
ISSN:0263-2764
1460-3616
DOI:10.1177/0263276420906862