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In 1995 Bill Gates purchased the Bettmann Archive, canonical repository of the pictorial past. Gates’ corporation Corbis moved the collection to Iron Mountain, an underground data-prison, promising to digitize a fraction of the collection and restrict access to the rest. This was not a break with established routines of picture trafficking, but a continuation of the cultural commerce of Otto Bettmann himself. This chapter juxtaposes the career of the Bettmann cultural establishment with the pictorial output of other Weimar practitioners, notably Eduard Fuchs and Herbert Bayer, illuminating what was at stake in rival modes of global image banking. Despite continuities in service delivery, a profound difference of aesthetic allegiance separates Bettmann and Corbis–Bettmann, centered on the role of historicity in the manufacture of image banks.
Gemüt
(2018)
Cardboard: Thinking the Box
(2017)
The dissertation is a study of a lost form of sensibility, Gemütlichkeit, which flourished in 19th century Germany and was, by all accounts, feIt most acutely in the Biedermeier period. This sensibility was generated by the operations of the Gemüth, a "soul-organ" taken by those who believed in its influence to be both mental and physical as weIl as individual and collective. The conceptual and phenomenal framework which structured experiences of Gemüth is unearthed from the history of psychiatric practice in the southern German asylum Illenau during the period 1842-1889. This institution fumishes a vivid demonstration of that framework because its practitioners held mental illnesses to be, literally "illnesses of the Gemüth (Gemüthskrankheiten). Consequently, they geared their treatment methods towards observing, regulating, and cajoling the afflicted organ.
At Illenau the medication to be administered to patients was experience itself and the asylum was arranged around a phannaeology of experience in which every ward constituted a separate world. The physician's task was to move patients between wards according to their shifting psychiatric needs, a skill that depended most crucially on timing (Takt). Much of the thesis is devoted to reconstructing the phenomenology of asylum life from the organization of space, through its landscape and architecture, and of time, through the use of music and gymnastics. The relationship between Gemüth and sexuality is explored with respect to Richard von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis (1877), a text informed by, yet at odds with, the culture of Gemüth at Illenau where its author trained for five years, 1864-1869.
The research for this study is based on medical publications by Illenau physicians and other members of staff, such as asylum chaplains, music instructors and gymnastics teachers, on an asylum joumal called the Illenau Weekly (1867-1896) and on the Illenau patient records.
Netzwerk Stanford
(1990)
Seit jeher hat die Institution Universität Kritiker produziert, die, wie der Greis in Nietzsches Szenario „Über die Zukunft unserer Bildungsanstalten“, den jeweiligen Zustand der Universitäten als Zerfall in eine „akroamatische“1 Maschine beklagen. Doch hört dieser Zerfall nicht auf, nicht aufzuhören, hat sich doch die Verschaltung von Professorenmündern und Studentenohren als bündig und effizient erwiesen. Auch wenn sich heute das interne Netz der Universitätsmaschine nicht mehr vorwiegend akroamatisch von Mund zu Ohr realisiert, sondern von sprechenden Fingern zu lauschenden Augen, können noch immer Gespräche überhört werden, in denen der Verfall der Bildung, ihre Verbreitung und Verflachung beklagt werden.