Juno Moneta Atlas: Warburgian production or performing context-change

This paper sketches some connections between symbolic, pecuniary and formal economies in light of the question ‘what identifies Warburgian production?’ I propose that method occurs recursively throughout Warburgian production, across scales of scheme and impulse, subject and figure, miniaturization and affect. In this I claim, that along with his favored book, Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus, Warburg’s practice shares some characteristics of poioumenon, the Ancient Greek term for ‘product’ and a term employed by Alastair Fowler to refer to a metafiction in which the story concerns the process of creation. According to Fowler, "the poioumenon is calculated to offer opportunities to explore […] the limits of narrative truth."
What is the process and productive topology of the Mnemosyne Atlas? Drawing from probability theory, set-theory and engaging Elie Ayache’s discussion in his book ‘The Blank Swan’ of the technology of the derivatives market and context-change in contrast to probability theory I sketch a shape for a Warburgian production where interpretation is severed from iconological representation, existing in the intervals and velocity changes between contexts.

'The Warburg Haus: Apparatus, Inscription, Data, Speculation' was a colloquium event held on the 29 and 30 June at the KBW Warburg Haus in Hamburg that is a section of the University of Hamburg. A working group comprised of 19 papers from The Warburg institute's Bilderfahrzeuge research project, the Warburg Haus Hamburg, l'Institute de Recherche et Inovation, Paris, Central Saint Martins and London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, and contributors from other institutions. The event was organised by Martin Westwood and Mick Finch (and who also gave papers) and the proceedings will be published in a future edition of the Journal of the Philosophy of Photography. The event focused upon questions and problematics raised by the work of Aby Warburg and was organised into 4 sessions: Speculation, Data, Inscription and Apparatus.