Edited by Siegfried Zielinski and David Link
with Eckhard Fuerlus and Nadine Minkwitz.

Text Editor: Gloria Custance
© 2006 Siegfried Zielinski, David Link, the authors and
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln

Contents
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SIEGFRIED ZIELINSKI
1806/2006 – A Miniature in lieu of a Preface

PETER BLEGVAD (London)
Bilder Variations (A Special Archaeology)

DAVID LINK (Cologne, Karlsruhe)
There Must Be an Angel: On the Beginnings of the Arithmetics of Ray

AMADOR VEGA (Barcelona)
Ramon Llull: A Logic Of Invention

SEBASTIAN KLOTZ (Leipzig)
Beyond Mimesis:
Intelligent Musical Signs and the Production of Variants in the Enlightenment

MIKLÓS PETERNÁK (Budapest)
Convention and Invention:
Notes on the Illustrations to Orbis Pictus

AMIR R. ALEXANDER (Los Angeles)
Through the Mathematical Looking Glass

ARIANNA BORRELLI (Berlin)
The Flat Sphere

GÁBOR Á. ZEMPLÉN (Budapest)
Auxiliary Images:
Appropriations of Goethe’s Theory of Colours

STEVEN VANDEN BROECKE (Brussels)
God’s Rhetoric: A Therapeutical Tracing of Allegoria in Factis

MARA MILLS (Cambridge, MA)
Hearing Things: Telephones and Auditory Theory

LIOUDMILA VOROPAI (Cologne, Moscow)
Iambic Tetrameter in the Service of Revolution: Notes on the System of Art and
Literary Education in Post-revolutionary Russia

ANDREA HACKER (Dublin)
Khlebnikovian Time: Between H.G.Wells and Kalachakra

OKSANA BULGAKOWA (Berlin)
Theory as a Gesamtkunstwerk

KOEN VERMEIR (Leuven)
The Reality of Failure: On the Interpretation of Success and Failure
in (the History and Philosophy of) Science and Technology

ECKHARD FÜRLUS (Berlin)
“To point out the potential of the individual”:
Some Reflections on Christology and Crucifixion Typology

ALLA MITROFANOVA (St. Petersburg)
From Enlightenment to the Divine Darkness: The Apophatic

PETER WEIBEL (Karlsruhe)
Political Ontology and Ontological Relativity: Pro Variantology – A Footnote