In this final panel for an encyclopaedic undertaking that Warburg well-knew could never be perfected, he spurns the temptation of seeking synthesis, preferring instead to open up a whole new series of surprising, illuminating relations between past and present, East and West, and, above all, subject (Warburg) and object (the Book of the World or, better yet, the Atlas of the World). A "Kritik der reinen Unvernunft" [WIA, III.102.5.3, Grisaille, Mantegna, fol. 8], the Bilderatlas is, above all, as Didi-Huberman asserts, a work of the imagination (but not of "la fantasie"). A work of transversal reason, unlike a dictionary, the Atlas "n'est guidé que par des principes mouvants et provisoires, ceux qui peuvent faire surgir inépuisablement de nouvelles relations – bien plus nombreuses encore que ne le sont les termes eux-mêmes – entre des choses ou des mots que rien ne semblait apparier d'abord" [is only guided by mobile and provisional principles, those that can make new relations inexhaustibly appear – relations far more numerous than are the terms themselves – between things and words where nothing seemed to appear at first]. As such, this pathway, like all pathways closely following Warburg's Wanderstrassen, describes a "Versuch" (attempt), a "Prozeß" (operation, process), and not an end or telos.

Could say that, or that this is Aby Warburg's meme collection - focused on the miracle of transubstantiation. As the critic notes "warily eying the demonic" '''

Aby Warburgs life work, the analysis of his enormous historical meme connection, looks to anon like a systematic effort to prolong a weakening self deception.

At any rate it's probably the best meme collection in 3 D material spaces, as the QR meme collection covers only 4 years, but is a result of multiple permutations, combinations and rearrangements of Warburg's historical images, texts and graphic design.

No doubt in anon's mind this reluctant gnostic would have been cheered and relieved by the continued extraction of useful meanings from the images, expression and gestures that make up our unrecognized lexicon and vocabulary."

As an anon curator remarked recently, "We'd like to have some of that shit for the QR Shill Post Museum and Archive ." No doubt.

https://warburg.library.cornell.edu/image-group/panel-79-introduction?sequence=509