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🐺 Warburg's Werewolf
Aby Warburg is best known as a boundary-breaking art historian who saw visual culture as a long memory across time. But in 1921, during a stay in a psychiatric hospital, he penned an extraordinary document — part confession, part cosmology — grappling with the idea that he might be a werew
Aby Warburg is best known as a boundary-breaking art historian who saw visual culture as a long memory across time. But in 1921, during a stay in a psychiatric hospital, he penned an extraordinary document — part confession, part cosmology — grappling with the idea that he might be a werewolf, sometimes writing from the werewolf's perspective. Not so much a loss of reason as a reconfiguration of it: a serious attempt to chart the inner weather of a soul in extremis. Strange, sincere, unforgettable.
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