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6 August 2021|Imaginarien der Kraft

Call: Conference 09.-11.06.2022 »Perceiving Forces. Dynamics of the Senses in Science, Art and Literature«, Hamburg

Since the philosophy of ancient Greece, perception (aisthesis) has been fundamentally understood as a force (dynamis). Thinking about how the perceptive faculty functions opens onto tensions between the capability of truth and the susceptibility to deception; between passive impression and active imagination. Moreover, the...

Titian: The Submersion of Pharaoh's Army in the Red Sea

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29 June 2021|Imaginarien der Kraft

Research report: Hannah Baader: Dividing Forces. Titian, Crossing of the Sea

Dr. Hannah Baader was a fellow at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« from December 2020 to January 2021. A short report on her research on the topic »Dividing Forces. Titian, Crossing of the Sea« is now available online.

Poster Workshop Die Kraft der Einbildung: Physiologie, Ästhetik, Medien

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8 June 2021|Imaginarien der Kraft

Announcement: 08./09.07.2021 Workshop »The Power of Imagination: Physiology, Aesthetics and Media«

Imagination is situated at the intersection of issues explored by the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. As a human faculty, on the one hand, imagination mediates between sensory perception and conceptual ideas. As a distinguished force of the human mind, on the other hand, it is itself the object of varying, even contradictory...

Carl von Linné: Die Kennzeichen der Insekten

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7 June 2021|Imaginarien der Kraft

New article: Dominik Hünniger: Visible Labour? Productive Forces and Imaginaries of Participation in European Insect Studies

The practice of early modern natural history depended on the collective collecting activities of a great variety of people. Among them, artisans played a major role in acquiring and distributing knowledge about the natural world and they contributed significantly to the scholarly labour in natural history. This distributed...

Willem van Aelst: Still-Life with Mouse and Candle

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12 May 2021|Imaginarien der Kraft

Research report: Caroline Torra-Mattenklott: Forces of the Concrete as Poetic Principles of Agency and Form

Prof. Dr. Caroline Torra-Mattenklott was a fellow at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force« from mid-October 2020 to mid-March 2021. A short report on her research on the topic »Forces of the Concrete as Poetic Principles of Agency and Form« is now available online.

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10 May 2021|Imaginarien der Kraft

New Fellow in the Summer Term: Matthew Vollgraff

We welcome our new fellow Dr. Matthew Vollgraff at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. He is a research associate at the Warburg Institute London, where he is a member of the project »Bilderfahrzeuge: Aby Warburg’s Legacy and the Future of Iconology«. His work focuses on the intersections of aesthetics, anthropology, and the...

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