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Click on a theme in RHIZOMES to see how disparate parts of the ICI archive are joined together around a fleeting thought or by a slip of the eye or the shutter. Click on a subject in ICI CONNECTIONS to see how recurring ICI concerns coalesce around recurring themes or click on a place in the ICI ARCHIVES to see the raw material of our collections. TAGs below each post reveal hidden relationships between objects, thoughts, and interpretations. This is the place of laboratory research and play. -MORE-RHIZOMES
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Category Archives: Sebaldiana
To the Temple
This is a nondescript sign on a back road of East Anglia, England. But to anyone who has read W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn, this sign might (and it does) announce the site of Alec Girrard’s model of … Continue reading
Max Sebald’s Signature
As a form of written language, the signature is, in theory, a symbolic sign. Its relationship to the person who creates it is arbitrary and based totally on convention and cultural practice. In reality, though, the signature is a … Continue reading
FIELD WORK DOCUMENT: Tombstone Sign
FIELD WORK DOCUMENT: Cemetery Sign
Sebald’s photo archive
These pages, that represent the 385 images from W. G. Sebald’s four published prose fictions, jump-started our 5-year long study of the late author’s work. By attempting to bring the pictures back to their pre-publication state where they existed only … Continue reading
Mnemosyne Atlas
Sebald, Dean and Warburg explore the power of the Archive. Continue reading
Re-walking the Rings
White pumpkin from East Anglia, UK. In 2004, an ICI research team re-walked W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn. The trip became the lynchpin for our third book, Searching for Sebald. The pumpkin caught our eyes as an emblem of … Continue reading
Behind These Bricks
