As digital technology advances at breakneck speed, Images are circulating quicker than ever before. But what is the status of the image in the digital era? In The Digital Wunderkammer, art historian Hubert Burda (born 1940) examines the "iconic turn" in ten themed chapters and conversations with leading cultural theorists. In the first chapter, "The View Through the Window," Burda traces the connection between perspectival painting and the television, demonstrating in the second chapter how the image requires a frame, which in turn requires a material vehicle--the topic of the third chapter--that in our era has become a non-material vehicle with its own formal parameters. In the fourth chapter, "The Mobile Image," Burda shows how images have always been linked to portability, but now migrate to an unprecedented degree, so that anyone with a personal device can globally disseminate, say, footage from a concert via Youtube. A discussion of the capacity of individual images to placate or ennervate leads to a seventh chapter on the appetite for the Sublime and the rhetoric and representation of power throughout art history. Following a discussion of the democratization of celebrity culture, Burda proposes that the Google search box is perhaps the most interesting "interface" of our times, analogous to the seventeenth-century cabinet of curiosities (or wunderkammer). Conversations with Friedrich Kittler, Peter Sloterdijk, Bazon Brock, Horst Bredekamp and Hans Belting further extend this imaginative debate on the "iconic turn."

The Digital Wunderkammer: 10 Chapters on the Iconic Turn

Arts & Photography

Burda, Hubert

History & Criticism

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Medienasthetik Der Komik (German Edition)

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Social Sciences

Der Film Oder Der Imaginare Mensch: Ein Anthropologischer Essay (Film Denken) (German Edition)

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Movies

Post-systematische Theologie II: Gottes Trinitarisches Liebesabenteuer: Dreieiniges Werden, Okologische Schopfungswege, Menschen Und Ver-ruckung (German Edition)

Religion & Spirituality

Mühling, Markus

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Art and Efficacy: Case Studies from Classical Archaeology (Morphomata, 44)

Boschung, Dietrich

The study presents culture and literature of madness in the Renaissance and deals with various fields of knowledge. The original approach to madmen in the pre-modern era allows for an innovative handling of the traditional furor that has given rise to heroic masterpieces of world literature, such as Ariosto's furious Orlando, Tasso's heroic madness and Bruno's heretical furor.

Furor Hereos: Heroischer Wahnsinn in Der Renaissance Ariosto, Tasso, Bruno (Humanistische Bibliothek Reihe I: Abhandlungen, 66) (German Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Oster, Angela

Handwritten signatures are coming to an end. Digital signatures are increasingly taking over its role. But what was the individual handwritten signature in the first place? The material form in which signatures are given today is not contingent, but the result of complex historical transformations.

Unterschreiben: Zur Geschichte Und Theorie Literarischer Eigenhandigkeit (German Edition)

Risthaus, Peter

Volume 7 of the series "Huizinga Schriften" presents the overdue new translation of his work "Homo Ludens" (1938), which has had a decisive influence on our thinking of play ever since. This new translation is supplemented by the first translation of the autors's "Rektoratsrede" of 1933, which until today was only available as a self-translation.

Homo Ludens: Versuch Einer Bestimmung Des Spielelements Der Kultur. Mit Der Rektoratsrede Von 1933 Uber Die Grenzen Von Spiel Und Ernst in Der Kultur (Huizinga Schriften, 7) (German Edition)

Huizinga, Johan

Philosophy

Weibliche Kollektive (Dispositiv der Menge, 2) (German Edition)

This essay develops a theory of improvisation as practice of aesthetic sense-making. While considering all arts, references are made to many concrete cases. A topic in vogue since the XX. century, as evidenced by the great philosophers who were interested in it (Ryle, Derrida, Eco among others), improvisation, a felicitous mixture of habit and creativity, norm and freedom, is constitutive of human action. Human practices - including very well-regulated activities such as playing chess, piloting airplanes, or medicine - permit and often require it to varying degrees.Improvisation is also the true source of artistic experience. Consequently, the aesthetics of improvisation result in a philosophy of art: Art was born as improvisation. Yet improvisation has its own aesthetic dimension: that of a "grammar of contingency" in which notions such as emergence, presence, curiosity and authenticity explain the pleasures of joyful adventure and empathic involvement elicited by improvisation.

Aesthetics of Improvisation (Contemporary Perspectives in European Philosophy, 2)

Bertinetto, Alessandro

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