A reading group led by Florian Roithmayr
Session I - the relevance of the techniques of imprints
Didi-Huberman, Georges,
The Index of the Absent Wound (Monograph on a Stain), trans. Thomas Repensek in October Vol. 29, (Summer, 1984)
(Cambridge, MIT Press, 1984) pp. 63-81
Didi-Huberman, Georges,
Wax Flesh, Vicious Circles, trans. Brian Holmes, in
Encyclopaedia anatomica: a complete collection of anatomical waxes (London
– Cologne: Taschen, 1999), pp.64-74
Pliny, Natural History: Books XXIII-XXXV, ed. G. P. Gooold, trans. H.
Rackham, 1995 ed., X vols., vol. IX, The Loeb Classical Library (London:
Harvard University Press, 1952), Book XXXV, 151
Session II - the implications of a photograph conceived as a kind
of cast of the object made by light
Bazin, André, The Ontology of the Photographic Image, trans. Hugh Grey, in
Film Quarterly (Los Angeles, University of California Press Vol. 13, No. 4,
(Summer, 1960), pp. 4-9
Didi-Huberman, Georges, Contact Images, trans. A. Hartz (Los Angeles,
California: Tympanum, Journal of Comparative Literary Studies Studies,
University of Southern California, 1999) issue 3
Frazer, James, The Golden Bough (London, Chancelor Press, 1994) pp. 37-
45
Session III - the relation of the imprint to place
Didi-Huberman, Georges, The Paradox of the Phasmid, trans. A. Hartz (Los
Angeles, California: Tympanum, Journal of Comparative Literary Studies,
University of Southern California, 1999) issue 3
Caillois, Roger, Mimicry and Psychasthenia, ed. Claudine Frank, trans.
Claudine Frankd andCamille Naish (Durham and London: Duke university
Press, 2003) pp.91-103
