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...

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...

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.