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Displacing Theory Through the Global South

ed. by Iracema Dulley, Özgün Eylül İşcen
Cultural Inquiry, 29

Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2024

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Displacing Theory Through the Global South calls for reflection on the historical and geopolitical inequalities that have shaped theorization.
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Ulysses, Dante, and Other Stories

Elena Lombardi

Cultural Inquiry, 28
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2023

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Ulysses, Dante, and Other Stories presents a unique form of creative scholarship. It employs Dante’s late medieval take on Ulysses and his tragic pursuit of ‘virtue and knowledge’ as a prism that refracts an ancient myth of journey and return into a modern story of discovery and nostalgia.
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War-torn Ecologies, An-Archic Fragments

Reflections from the Middle East
ed. by Umut Yıldırım

Cultural Inquiry, 27
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2023

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War-torn Ecologies, An-Archic Fragments: Reflections from the Middle East identifies a conceptual intersection between war, affect, and ecology from the Middle East.

Untying the Mother Tongue

ed. by Antonio Castore, Federico Dal Bo

Cultural Inquiry, 26
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2023

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Untying the Mother Tongue explores what it might mean today to speak of someone's attachment to a particular, primary language. Traditional conceptions of mother tongue are often seen as an expression of the ideology of a European nation-state.
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Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik

A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture
Amina ElHalawani
ed. by Michael Butter, Lars Eckstein, Joachim Frenk, Brigitte Georgi-Findlay, Thomas Herbst, Barbara Korte, Günter Leypoldt, Christoph Reinfandt, Anatol Stefanowitsch

De Gruyter, Volume 71, Issue 1, March 2023

Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture. Special Issue: Haunted by Homes; Guest Editor: Amina ElHalawani.
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Never Was

H. Gareth Gavin

Cipher Press, April 2023

Daniel sits on a clifftop in the aftermath of a party at Fin's mansion, looking out over a junky sea. Daniel's not sure why they're there, or who Fin is, even though Fin seems to be somebody famous.

The Case for Reduction

ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Jakob Schillinger

Cultural Inquiry, 25
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022

Open Access
This volume suspends anti-reductionist reflexes to focus on the experiences and practices of different kinds of reduction, their generative potentials, ethics, and politics. Can their violences be contained and their benefits transported to other contexts?

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Going Astray, Being Adrift, Coming to Nothing
ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer
Cultural Inquiry, 24
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022
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The taste for a departure from progress and other teleologies, the fascination with disorder, unfocused modes of attention, or improvisational performances cut across wide swaths of scholarly and activist discourses, practices in the arts — yet also in business, warfare, and politics.
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Camering

Fernand Deligny on Cinema and the Image
Marlon Miguel

LEIDEN University Press, June 2022

Fernand Deligny, ‘a poet and ethologist’, is mostly known for his work with autistic children, and his influence on the revolutions in French post-war psychiatry. Though neither director, scriptwriter, historian of cinema nor a theorist of the image, cinema is constantly called into his social, pedagogical, and clinical experimentations.
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Openness in Medieval Europe

ed. by Manuele Gragnolati and Almut Suerbaum

Cultural Inquiry, 23

Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022

Open Access
This volume challenges the persistent association of the Middle Ages with closure and fixity. It uncovers forms of openness which are often obscured by modern assumptions, and demonstrates how they coexist with, or even depend upon, enclosure and containment in paradoxical and unexpected ways.
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