The Nameless Science and Its Resonance in Complex Thought and Fractal Theory

Abstract

Thinking through images is a methodological exercise that goes beyond the approximation of images through the contiguity of gestures, shapes, themes and feelings. This exercise also concerns the approximation of forms of knowledge production. This article presents an attempt to approximate these forms based on the premise that “the nameless science”, proposed by Warburg, operates in contiguity with the cosmology of the Pueblo Indians, from the Southwest of the United States. Both systems of thought have the same mental matrix of knowledge that later came to constitute two relevant current theories: Complex Thought and the Theory of Fractals.