Archiwa pamięci: Pasaze Waltera Benjamina i Atlas Mnemosyne Aby’ego Warburga

The Warburg method of a montage of images reflects his comprehension of culture as a space of memory, in which visual symbols (and not only) fulfil the function of a sui generis archive of contrasted reminiscences. In this aspect, his work can be compared to Benjamin’s Passagenwerk, with Benjamin writing about the dialectic of that which is visible while Warburg conceived the dialectic of perception rather literally: the most economical way of examining the process of sublimation is an actual comparison of visual representations.