ABSTRACT

The techniques or ideas that are highlighted in this chapter are the principle of the good neighbor through searching as researching; images as migrating units of meaning; framing as both a conceptual and structural strategy; the networked atlas; and moving between close and distant reading. What does Aby Warburg offer digital humanities (DHs) and digital art history? In what follows, the author aims to plot selected methods and strategies utilized by Warburg onto DHs. His underlying assumption is that Warburg’s Bilderatlas Mnemosyne allows for thinking though images using DH methods. In short, Warburg’s Bilderatlas works on the principles of what the author understand as critical DHs. Perhaps the best digital art history can do when engaging the Warburg experience is to take the pointers of Warburg’s method seriously and determine how they can be “remediated” and “remapped” into the digital.