Christian J. Emden is Associate Professor of German Studies at Rice University, USA. He is the author of Nietzsche on Language, Consciousness, and the Body (2005), Walter Benjamins Archäologie der Moderne (2006), and Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of History (2008).Gabriele Rippl is Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Bern, Switzerland, and the author of Lebenstexte: Literarische Selbststilisierungen englischer Frauen in der frühen Neuzeit (1998) and Beschreibungs-Kunst (2005).

• Contents: Christian J. Emden/Gabriele Rippl: Introduction: Image, Text and Simulation – Aleida Assmann: The Shaping of Attention by Cultural Frames and Media Technology – Gabriele Rippl: English Literature and Its Other: Toward a Poetics of Intermediality – Christian J. Emden: Scanned Brains, Dyed Bacteria and Magnified Flies: On Scientific Images and Things – Renate Brosch: ‘Art Can Do Nothing without the Collaboration of the Beholder’: Vernon Lee’s Theory of Aesthetic Response – Cornelia Zumbusch: Images of History: Walter Benjamin and Aby Warburg – Julia Straub: Morphing and Mourning Beatrice: Mythopoesis in Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Julia Margaret Cameron – Bruno Arich-Gerz: The Eye-con-tactile, Mesmerism and Literature: Seeing the Feel in Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun and William Gibson’s Idoru – Nicole Wiedenmann: The Body of the Crowd: Revolutionary Masses in Image and Discourse – Hartmut Winkler: The Computer and the Audiovisual: Ruptures and Continuities in Media History – Kay Kirchmann: Parallel Universe: Reflections on the Suspicion of Simulation in Media Theory and Contemporary Film.