Representing the passions

Introduction: the problem of passions; Cogito embodied: enforce and counterforce in René Descarte´s Les passions de l´ame; Music and the order of passions; masses, mind, matter: political passions, and collective violence in post-imperial Austria; Observations on the natural history of the web; Bill Viola, Passion´s series - images and production notes; Unespeakable passions: the civil and savage lessons of early modern animal representation; The afterlife of Sarah Siddons; or, the archives of performance; Pulling Ribbons from mouths: Roland Barthe´s umbilical referent; Anne and Patrick Poirier, Perverse Passions - Perversity Doleur Caresses Desire Traces Anonyme Violation Obscur; Pleasure and misery: catholic sources of Paul Gauguin´s and Pablo Picasso´s abstraction; Collecting aganist forgetting: East of the river: chicano art collectors anonymous; A passion for the dead: ancient objects and everyday life