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Engramma is a cultural research project on the subject
of the classical tradition, based on Aby Warburg’s
method.
The aim pursued by Engramma is to outline the unchanging
cultural co-ordinates of western memory – myths,
figures, words and symbols – in a wide ambit of
study: from Renaissance to Antiquity and Contemporary.
La Rivista di Engramma, active from 2000 and
now reaching its XXVI issue, monthly presents various
surveys, with on-line essays and unpublished works.
The ‘alchemical marriage’ between words and
images, suggested by Warburg’s method, finds in
the information technology and in the hypertextual medium
the most suitable form of expression.
Engramma uses internet not as a mere substitute for paper
publishing, bur as a tool for research, as a touchstone
for method and as a vehicle for its scholar achievements.
This editorial issue is intended to explain forms and
contents of the surveys in the Rivista.
The articles presented here show the adequacy of contents
to the expressive and functional requirements of internet,
and the search for new graphic and logic forms of Engramma.
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