Sigrid Weigel (1950)

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Sigrid Weigel (Germany, 1950) is former director of the Zentrum für Literatur und Kulturforschung (ZfL, Berlin). Awarded the Aby Warburg Prize in 2016, Weigel’s interdisciplinary work encompasses Literature and Cultural Studies; her publications focus on Jewish-German intellectual history (Heine, Freud, Warburg, Scholem, Benjamin, Arendt, Susan Taubes), cultural approach to science studies (inheritance, genealogy, neuro-psychoanalysis) and Image Science. Weigel's numerous books include Walter Benjamin. Images, the Creaturely, and the Holy (2008) and Grammatologie der Bilder(Grammatology of Images) (Suhrkamp, 2015), and she edited Aby Warburg: Werke in einem Band (with M. Treml and P. Ladwig, Suhrkamp, 2010). She is currently working on a book on the Cultural History of Lament and Compassion and is conducting an interdisciplinary laboratory The Epistemic Reverse Side of Instrumental Images in the field of facial expression and “affective computing”.