Variantology 1. On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies
Edited by Siegfried Zielinski and Silvia M. Wagnermaier
Text editor: Gloria Custance
Published by: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, ISBN 3-88375-914-7
Authors and Editors
Contents
SIEGFRIED ZIELINSKI, SILVIA M. WAGNERMAIER Depth of Subject and Diversity of Method. An Introduction to Variantology	7
WERNER NEKES (Mülheim) Surface Tension - Various Images	*
MARA MILLS (Cambridge, Mass) Theatrum Fungorum: John Cage's Mycology and Photomechanical Reproduction	15
PAOLA BERTUCCI (Bologna) Promethean Sparks. Electricity and the Order of Nature in the 18th Century	41
CLAUDIA SCHINK (Cologne) Mythologia Fulgurales: On the History of Lightning in Mythology and Christianity	59
SIEGFRIED ZIELINSKI (Berlin/Cologne) Show and Hide. Projection as a Media Strategy Located between Proof of Truth and Illusionising	81
ELISABETH VON SAMSONOW (Vienna) A New Theory on the New, or How and to What End Do We Study Old Texts	103
JOCHEN BÜCHEL (Munich) A Psychology of Matter	123
HENNING SCHMIDGEN (Berlin) Repetition and Differences: Psychophysiological Time Machines, 1850-1865	145
VELIMIR ABRAMOVIC (Belgrade) Introduction to an Ontology of Time	159
ANTHONY MOORE (London/Cologne) The Musical Yardstick	185
NILS ROELLER (Zurich) Revolution of the Ear? The Typewriter as a Listening Aid	195
YASMIN HASKELL (Perth) Didac-tech? Prolegomena to the Early Modern Poetry of Information	209
KOEN VERMEIR (Leuven/Berlin) The Hidden History of the Cyborg	223
TIMOTHY DRUCKREY (New York) Reimagining Archaeology	249
DAVID LINK (Cologne) while(true) - On the Fluidity of Signs in Hegel, Gödel, and Turing	261
ARIANNA BORRELLI (Rome/Braunschweig) Mathematical Notion as a Philosophical Instrument	279
AMADOR VEGA (Barcelona) Images that Are not Images: Notes Toward an "Apofatic Theology" for the 20th Century	299
_____________________ * 13, 39, 57, 79, 101, 120/121, 142/143, 157, 183, 193, 207, 221, 247, 259, 277, 297, 319, 343, 377