Status Updates From Atlas Mnemosyne

Warburg darkly concludes: 'Telegram and telephone destroy the cosmos. Mythical and symbolic thinking strive to form spiritual bonds between humanity and the surrounding world, shaping distance into the space required for devotion and reflection: the distance undone by the instantaneous electric connection.'

Before 1517, art was expert at picturing its audience in a universal state of siege. After 1517, the tables turned and art itself came under attack.

Warburg had other titles too, such as ‘On the Surviving Patterning-Power of Antique Expressive Values in the European Spiritual Economy,’ ’Image-Atlas towards the Critique of Unreason,’ and ‘Ghost-Stories for True-Grown-Ups'.

I use the books like instruments in a scientific laboratory.

Hybrid AI will allow language-endowed intelligent agents (LEIAs) as enhanced talking books, our new trustworthy agent collaborators.