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Living under Atlas’s whispers

Abstract

In La Ascensíon de Atlas, Fabián Ludueña aims to discuss Aby Warburg”s work, thinking of it as a demonology of the contemporary mediatic times. Moreover, he thinks Warburg”s imagetic atlas, the Mnemosyne, in lacanian terms: Warburg”s sinthome (after those years which Warburg had spent at Ludwig Biswanger”s psychiatric clinic.). Ludueña followed his research on antique philosophy and on Mnemosyne. At the same time, and in parallel he follows his own two treatises on spectrology. He points out how the construction, which is called “the human being”, ended up discarding, or has been disguised in discursivity, almost any entity that does not fit the pathological normopathy constructed, to what he calls the anthropotechnique machine (LUDUEÑA, 2012, 2016). Beyond ancient philosophers, the author reflects, also, issues of image and subjectivity. In dialoguing with Roland Barthes and Alfred Gell, his concern is about the re-emergence of myths and gestures.

Keywords
Aby Warburg; Mnemosyne; image; Fabian Ludueña; spectrology

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