TY  - JOUR
A1  - Di Blasi, Luca
T1  - Splitting images : understanding irreversible fractures through aspect change
T2  - Multistable figures : on the critical potential of ir/reversible aspect-seeing ; Cultural inquiry ; Vol. 8
N2  - The Rubin vase and duck-rabbit have two things in common: not only are they famous multistable figures, or 'Kippbilder', but before being discovered by scientists and philosophers, they both started their career as simple jokes. In contrast to usual understandings of 'Kippbilder', this paper will try to demonstrate that 'Kippbilder' can be a helpful model for understanding better dramatic, existential, and even religious events and their consequences. Multistable figures or 'Kippbilder' combine reversibility and irreversibility in an interesting way. While the so called first aspect change introduces an irreversible split, all subsequent aspect changes can be understood as an endless chain of reversible changes. After discussing the specificity of the Rubin vase and its aspect changes and focussing then on the distinction between first and further aspect changes, Di Blasi suggests the productive potential of the multistable figure as model for eventful events in discussing the conversion of Paul and his 'hōs mē' ('as if not').
KW  - Aspect seeing
KW  - Gestalt psychology
KW  - Multistable figures
KW  - Multistability
KW  - Religious studies
KW  - Splitting (psychology)
KW  - Inversionsfigur
KW  - Wahrnehmungswechsel
KW  - Gestaltpsychologie
KW  - Damaskuserlebnis
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/53203
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-532038
UR  - https://www.ici-berlin.org/oa/ci-08/di_blasi_splitting-images.pdf
SN  - 978-3-85132-734-2
SN  - 2627-731X
SP  - 67
EP  - 87
PB  - Turia + Kant
CY  - Wien
ER  -