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Totentanz: Aby Warburg and Digital Art History

Workshop con Leonardo Impett

This talk presents recent attempts to 'operationalise' Warburg's concept of Pathosformel – that is to say, to transform it into an algorithm. This process implies not only a conversion into computer language, but also an explicit reading of the concept itself, whose unforgiving nature forces us to consider each component of the concept in detail. Using this operationalisation, we offer a new perspective on the Bilderatlas: one which suggests the clear morphological existence of Pathosformeln, but more interestingly, the impossibility of devising a 'taxonomy of pathos'.