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Introduction to Variations on Media Thinking by Siegfried Zielinski in Chinese language:

Variations_Intro 齐林斯基-惊异发生器：多样的媒介思想

PDFs of the first pages of all essays published in the Variantology series for download. The texts are sorted by author.

Please respect the copyrights as follows: Variantology 1 © Siegfried Zielinski, Silvia M.Wagnermaier, the authors and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln. Variantoloy 2 © Siegfried Zielinski, David Link, the authors and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, Köln. Variantology 3–5 © Siegfried Zielinski, Eckhard Fürlus, the authors and
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln.

Velimir Abramovic, Introduction to an Ontology of Time Structure and Models, in: Variantology 1 (PDF)

Ulrich Alertz, The Horologium of Hārūn al-Rashīd Presented to Charlemagne. An Attempt to Identify and Reconstruct the Clock Using the Instructions Given by al-Jazarī, in: Variantology 4 (PDF)

Amir R. Alexander, Through the Mathematical Looking Glass, in: Variantology 2 (PDF)

Nanni Balestrini, Tape Mark I & Early Machine Poetry, in: Variantology 5 (PDF)

Rosa Barba, The Empirical Effect. Printed Cinema, 2010, in: Variantology 5 (PDF)

Irit Batsry, Writing Images, in: Variantology 4 (PDF)

Hans Belting, Afterthoughts on Alhazen’s Visual Theory and Its Presence in the Pictorial Theory of Western Perspective, in: Variantology 4 (PDF)

Hans Belting, Jacopo Sannazaro & His Readers. The Arcadian Dream in the Pocket Book, in: Variantology 5 (PDF)

John Berger, Meanwhile, in: Variantology 5 (PDF)

Paola Bertucci, Promethean Sparks: Electricity and the Order of Nature in the Eighteenth Century, in: Variantology 1 (PDF)

Peter Blegvad, Two Birds / Poet of Stone, in: Variantology 5 (PDF)

Arianna Borrelli, “Crystallogy in the Making”, in: Variantology 4 (PDF)

Arianna Borrelli, Giovan Battista Della Porta’s Neapolitan Magic & His Humanistic Meteorology, in: Variantology 5 (PDF)

Arianna Borrelli, Mathematical Notation as a Philosophical Instrument, in: Variantology 1 (PDF)

Arianna Borrelli, Pneumatics and the Alchemy of Weather – What Is Wind and Why Does It Blow?, in: Variantology 3 (PDF)

Arianna Borrelli, The Flat Sphere, in: Variantology 2 (PDF)

Francesca Bray, Tales of Fertility: Reproductive Narratives in Late Imperial Medical Cases, in: Variantology 3 (PDF)

Almut Sh. Bruckstein, Textual Body Landscapes and Scripture’s Visual Form, in: Variantology 4 (PDF)

Jochen Büchel, The Psychology of Matter. Ideas and Image Patterns of Food Assimilation among Paracelsists in the Baroque Era, in: Variantology 1 (PDF)

Oksana Bulgakowa, Theory as a Gesamtkunstwerk, in: Variantology 2 (PDF)

Luciano Canfora, Papyrus as a Medium Sarà Simonidis? Certo non può essere Artemidoro, in: Variantology 5 (PDF)

Chen (Joseph) Cheng-Yih, Cultural Diversities: Complementarity in Opposites, in: Variantology 3 (PDF)

Chen (Joseph) Cheng-Yih, Notation, Algorithm & Derivation in Early Mathematics in China, in: Variantology 5 (PDF)

Timothy Druckrey, Re-Imagining Archaeology, in: Variantology 1 (PDF)

Xu Fei, Exploration and Achievements of the Acoustics of Yuelü, the Theory of the Tone System in Ancient China, in: Variantology 3 (PDF)

Mareile Flitsch, Body—Posture—Tool. Anthropological Reflections on the Depiction of Body–Artefact Relationships in Chinese Folk Art, in: Variantology 3 (PDF)

Vilém Flusser, Image and Text. A Lecture [to be] held at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, in: Variantology 4 (PDF)

Vilém Flusser, Mittel & Meere (Means & Seas), in: Variantology 5 (PDF)

FM Einheit, Monteverdis Liederzyklus über Krieg und Liebe, in: Variantology 5 (PDF)

Eckhard Fürlus, “To point out the potential of the individual”: Some Reflections on Christology and Crucifixion Typology, in: Variantology 2 (PDF)

Eckhard Fürlus, Napoli – Un Amore Cosi Grande, in: Variantology 5 (PDF)

Eckhard Fürlus, Psalm 29. A Comparison of Translations and Parallels in a Ugaritic Text, in: Variantology 4 (PDF)

Ramon Guardans, [General View of Water Control] On the Book He fang yilan Published by Pan Jixun in 1590, in: Variantology 3 (PDF)

Ramon Guardans, A Brief Note on the anwā ́ Texts of the Late Tenth Century, in: Variantology 4 (PDF)

Ingo Günther, U (Segment Yokohama), in: Variantology 3 (PDF)

Claus-Peter Haase, Modest Variations— Theoretical Tradition and Practical Innovation in the Mechanical Arts from Antiquity to the Arab Middle Ages, in: Variantology 4 (PDF)

Andrea Hacker, Khlebnikovian Time: Between H.G. Wells and Kalachakra, in: Variantology 2 (PDF)

Yasmin Haskell, Didac-tech? Prolegomena to the Early Modern Poetry of Information, in: Variantology 1 (PDF)

Yasmin Haskell, Let the Mountain [Vesuvius] Come to Mahomet: The Healing Powers of Travel & Neapolitan Simpatia in Niccolò Giannettasio’s Herculanean Spring (1704), in: Variantology 5 (PDF)

Sebastian Klotz, Arcadia, Musicland. Variants of Eloquence in the Renaissance Madrigal & in Disco, in: Variantology 5 (PDF)

Sebastian Klotz, Beyond Mimesis: Intelligent Musical Signs and the Production of Variants in the Enlightenment, in: Variantology 1 (PDF)

David Link, Enigma Rebus. Prolegomena to an Archaeology of Algorithmic Artefacts, in: Variantology 5 (PDF)

David Link, Scrambling T-R-U-T-H. Rotating Letters as a Material Form of Thought, in: Variantology 4 (PDF)

David Link, There Must Be an Angel. On the Beginnings of the Arithmetics of Rays, in: Variantology 2 (PDF)

David Link, while (true). On the Fluidity of Signs in Hegel, Gödel, and Turing, in: Variantology 1 (PDF)

Franco Lucentini, Automatopoietica [1962], in: Variantology 5 (PDF)

Laura U. Marks, Words Dream of Being Flowers, Birds Dream of Language, in: Variantology 4 (PDF)

Rossen Milev, The “World Script Revolution” in the Fourth Century: A Series of Coincidences and Typological Similarities, Interferential Influences, or an Unexplored Phenomenon of Parallelism?, in: Variantology 3 (PDF)

Mara Mills, Hearing Things: Telephones and Auditory Theory, in: Variantology 2 (PDF)

Mara Mills, Theatrum Fungorum: John Cage’s Mycology and Photomechanical Reproduction, in: Variantology 1 (PDF)

Alla Mitrofanova, From Enlightenment to the Divine Darkness: The Apophatic Return, in: Variantology 2 (PDF)

Anthony Moore, The Musical Yardstick, in: Variantology 1 (PDF)

Anthony Moore, Transactional Fluctuations 1. Towards an Encyclopaedia of Sound, in: Variantology 3 (PDF)

Anthony Moore, Transactional Fluctuations 2. “Reflections on Sound”, in: Variantology 4 (PDF)

Anthony Moore, Transactional Fluctuations 3. “Reflections on Sound”, in: Variantology 5 (PDF)

Dai Nianzu, Electricity, Magnetism, and Culture in Ancient China, in: Variantology 3 (PDF)

Miklós Peternák, Convention and Invention Notes on the Illustrations of Orbis Pictus, in: Variantology 2 (PDF)

Miklós Peternák, “Born/Natura”. A Picture in the Background of a Picture, in: Variantology 5 (PDF)

Dhruv Raina, In Search of a Historiography of Jesuit Science in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-century India, in: Variantology 3 (PDF)

Dhruv Raina, Le Gentil’s Voyage: Addressing Disruptions in the Narrative of Scientific Progress, in: Variantology 5 (PDF)

Dhruv Raina, On Metahistory and a Purportedly “Homeless Text”: Reflections upon an Eighteenth-century, South Asian Traveller’s Impression of Modern European Science, in: Variantology 4 (PDF)

Giovanni P. Ricciardi, Diario del Monte Vesuvio [Fragments], in: Variantology 5 (PDF)

Julian Rohrhuber, New Mathematics and the Subject of the Variable, in: Variantology 4 (PDF)

Nils Röller, A Strange Stone. Anonymity in the History of the Compass, in: Variantology 5 (PDF)

Nils Röller, Revolution of the Ear?. The Typewriter as a LISTENING AID, in: Variantology 1 (PDF)

Nils Röller, Thinking with Instruments: The Example of Kant’s Compass, in: Variantology 3 (PDF)

Otto E. Rössler, Variantology: Einstein-Bohr Battle Confirms Everett’s Eternal Now, in: Variantology 5 (PDF)

George Saliba, Blurred Edges—At the Intersection of Science, Culture, and Art, in: Variantology 4 (PDF)

George Saliba, Europe and the World of Islam: Standing in Each Other’s Shadow, in: Variantology 5 (PDF)

Elisabeth von Samsonow, A New Theory on the New, or, How and To What End Do We Study Old Texts?, in: Variantology 1 (PDF)

Elisabeth von Samsonow, Giordano Bruno against Ge-A-Metry. An Early Modern Model of Fractal Geometry, in: Variantology 5 (PDF)

Dagmar Schäfer, Ganying-Resonance in Seventeenth-century China: The Examples of Wang Fuzhi (1609–1696) and Song Yingxing (1589–ca. 1666), in: Variantology 3 (PDF)

Claudia Schink, Lux reflecta: On Moonlight in Mythology and Science, in: Variantology 3 (PDF)

Claudia Schink, Mythologia Fulgurales: On the History of Lightning in Mythology and Christianity, in: Variantology 1 (PDF)

Henning Schmidgen, Repetitions and Differences: Psychophysiological Time Machines, 1850–18651, in: Variantology 1 (PDF)

Wilhelm Schmidt Biggemann, Athanasius Kircher’s Concept of Prehistory, in: Variantology 5 (PDF)

Wilhelm Schmidt Biggemann, Sketch of a Cosmic Theory of the Soul from Aristotle to Averroes, in: Variantology 4 (PDF)

Fuat Sezgin, Some Remarks on the History of Science and Technology in Islam, in: Variantology 4 (PDF)

Amnon Shiloah, The Origin of Language & its Link with Music according to the Theory of Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, in: Variantology 5 (PDF)

Amnon Shiloah, The Paradigmatic-Individualistic Approach of Arab Musical Creativeness, in: Variantology 4 (PDF)

Steven Vanden Broecke, God’s Rhetoric A Therapeutical Tracing of Allegoria in Factis, in: Variantology 2 (PDF)

Amador Vega, Hermeneutics of Secrets: from the Villa dei Misteri to the Rothko Chapel, in: Variantology 5 (PDF)

Amador Vega, Images That Are Not Images: Notes Toward an “Apofatic Theology” for the Twentieth Century, in: Variantology 1 (PDF)

Amador Vega, Ramon Llull: A Logic of Invention, in: Variantology 2 (PDF)

Koen Vermeir, The Hidden History of the Cyborg. A Historio-Philosophical Essay on the Magic of Technology, in: Variantology 1 (PDF)

Koen Vermeir, The Reality of Failure: On the Interpretation of Success and Failure in (the History and Philosophy of ) Science and Technology, in: Variantology 2 (PDF)

Lioudmila Voropai, Iambic Tetrameter in the Service of Revolution: Notes on the System of Art and Literary Education in Post-revolutionary Russia, in: Variantology 2 (PDF)

Simon Werrett, “The Finest Fireworks in the World”: Chinese Pyrotechnics in Early Modern Europe, in: Variantology 3 (PDF)

Eilhard Wiedemann, On Musical Automata, in: Variantology 4 (PDF)

Gábor Á. Zemplén, Auxiliary Images— Appropriations of Goethe’s Theory of Colours, in: Variantology 2 (PDF)

Siegfried Zielinski and Franziska Latell, How One Sees, in: Variantology 4 (PDF)

Siegfried Zielinski, Show and Hide. Projection As a Media Strategy Located between Proof of Truth and Illusionising, in: Variantology 1 (PDF)

Siegfried Zielinski, Towards an Institute for Southern Modernities [ISMs]©, in: Variantology 5 (PDF)