About
Welcome to the ICI Library! The ICI Library is a reference library to be used on site. We support the scholars of the ICI Berlin in their research by supplying them with the needed literature and bibliographical information. While we develop our collection in close connection with the collective research projects of the ICI Berlin, we use interlibrary loan services to make materials available that are needed by individual researchers.
The ICI Library is registered with the library code ISIL BE–1578 by the ISIL Agency of Germany, is a member of the GBV Common Library Network, the German Library Association (dbv e. V.), and of the Working Community of German Special Libraries (AspB e. V.)
It is a partner of the Specialized Information Service for Comparative Literature (SIS Comparative Literature/FID AVL) and supports the ICI’s publishing venture ICI Berlin Press.
Collection
The ICI Library houses a collection reflecting the multidisciplinary research undertaken at the Institute in general and the work on its core projects in particular, with a focus on research in cultural theory. The library also houses the ICI Edition, a collection of recordings of events organized at the ICI Berlin. All recordings published in the ICI Edition have an entry in the library catalogue, which contains a link to the video hosted on the ICI website. The library also archives the posters and flyers of ICI Events as well as press materials and literature reviews related to the ICI Berlin.
Information
The holdings of the ICI Library are recorded in the local catalogue as well as in the Common Union Catalogue (GVK) of the Common Library Network (GBV), carrying call numbers and location information. Please note, however, that the catalogue does not give information about the status of individual items, since the ICI Library uses an internal lending system not connected to the publically accessible GVK catalogue. Please inquire with library staff if the desired title is presently available.
Unfortunately, we cannot offer regular use of the ICI Library to our guests. You are welcome, however, to visit us and use our holdings on site. Please contact us in advance in order to make an appointment.
Service
The library staff is present and ready to assist you on:
- Tues 10:00 – 18:00
- Wed 10:00 – 18:00
- Thurs 11:00-17:00
- Fri 13:00-18:00
Anna R. Winder Salling (Librarian)
anna.windersalling@ici-berlin.org
Tel: 473 7291-26
Christian Cortés (Assistant Librarian)
christian.cortes@ici-berlin.org
Tel: 473 7291-29
Out now: New publication by ICI Fellow Nicolas Helm-Grovas - Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen: Towards Counter-Cinema
From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen produced some of the most influential writings in film theory, such as Mulvey’s Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema and Wollen’s The Two Avant-Gardes. In the same period, the pair made six films together. Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen: Towards Counter-Cinema is the first book-length study of their work. Moving across Mulvey and Wollen’s writings and films, it situates their work in a detailed account of the shifting conjunctures in which it was generated. Traversing psychoanalysis, feminism, Marxism and semiotics, it draws on extensive archival research to present an in-depth study of these theorist-filmmakers and the wider field of 1970s British “counter-cinema”.
New article by ICI Fellow Filippo Bosco - Ecofeminism, Projective Imagination and The Scale of Installation Art: reading Connie Zehr's Solar Circumstance
The paper analyzes Connie Zehr’s exhibition Solar Circumstance, held in the fall of 1975 at the Salvatore Ala Gallery in Milan, Italy, an artificially lit environment of sand and clay objects. By a close reading of the artist’s “visual diaries,” the analysis explores the sources and mechanisms of Zehr’s ecological discourse, fueled by her reading of Rachel Carson’s The Sea Around Us and a feminist writing practice dating back to her involvement with the Womanspace environment in Los Angeles. Using the concept of projective imagination, Solar Circumstance can be interpreted in the tension realized between the scale of the artist’s work and that of the cosmological, oceanographic, and ecological reflections that fuel it.
Image credit: Courtesy The Estate of Connie Zehr
New Publication by Affiliated Fellow Hannah Lucas - Impossible Recovery: Julian of Norwich and the Phenomenology of Well-Being
In Impossible Recovery Hannah Lucas explores the entanglement of illness and revelation in the writings of medieval mystic Julian of Norwich (1342–after 1416), the first known woman to author a book in the English language, illuminating the unexpected commonalities between the medical and the mystical and their significance for philosophies of health. Framed by an original application of post-Heideggerian philosophy, the book offers a vivid new interpretation of the medieval mystic as crafting a proto-phenomenological theology of well-being. Refracted through Julian’s Revelations, this book advances a powerful existential query about the possibilities of recovery—of well-being, and of medieval history.
