Samples of Chaos, or the Poetics of Phenomena

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Figures ix
4. I. Disparates “Reading What Was Never Written”
5. The Inexhaustible, or Knowledge through Imagination 3
6. Heritage of Our Time: The Mnemosyne Atlas 8
7. Visceral, Sidereal, or How to Read the Liver of a Sheep 13
8. Madness and Truths of the Incommensurable 22
9. Tables for Collecting the Parceling-Out of the World 34
10. Heterotopias, or the Cartographies of Defamiliarization 46
11. Leopard, Starry Sky, Smallpox, Spatter 56
12. II. Atlas
13. A Titan Bent under the Burden of the World 67
14. Gods in Exile and Knowledge in Suffering 79
15. Survivals of Tragedy, Aurora of the Anxious Gay Science 90
16. “El sueño de la razón produce monstruos” 96
17. An Anthropology from the Point of View of the Image 105
18. Samples of Chaos, or the Poetics of Phenomena 116
19. Points of Origin and Links of Affinity 125
20. Atlas and the Wandering Jew, or the Age of Poverty 139
21. III. Disasters
22. Tragedy of Culture and Modern “Psychomachias” 153
23. Explosions of Positivism, or the “Crisis of European Sciences” 166
24. Warburg Facing the War: Notizkästen 115–18 182
25. The Seismograph Explodes 199
26. Panoramic Tables to Return from the Disaster 213
27. The Atlas of Images and the Surveying Gaze (Übersicht) 220
28. The Inexhaustible, or Knowledge through Re-montage 235
29. Bibliographical Note 257
30. Notes 259
31. Bibliography 287
32. Index 353