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Abstract

»The distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion«. Albert Einstein, whose 100th anniversary we are celebrating these days, in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of his theory of relativity, challenged us at the beginning of the 20th century to abandon Euclidean causal concepts also in cultural studies. However, variable models and concepts, as in quantum physics, cannot be transferred easily. Yet, they may help us question our own ways of thinking, once we explore potentially non-linear processes of image generation, which are characterized by overlapping structures.¹