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Time and the Everyday in Slow Cinema

Rosa Barotsi
Cultural Inquiry, 34
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025
Scheduled for 8 July 2025
This book examines the European component of Slow cinema, a strand of contemporary cinema that makes extensive use of distended durations and the ‘dead time’ of quotidian activities. I trace the development of the two notions that form its core — time and the everyday — in order to situate it both in film history and contemporary culture.
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Breaking and Making Models

ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Marietta Kesting, Claudia Peppel
Cultural Inquiry, 33
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025
Practically anything can be a model of or for something else. What characterizes models is rather their specific reductive relationality, which often promotes understanding but is always generative rather than merely representational.
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Queer Post-Cinema

Reinventing Resistance
Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky
Cultural Inquiry, 32
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025
The pioneers of what has been labelled New Queer Cinema laid the foundation for a Queer Post-Cinema — a movement in which artists experiment with technology in innovative ways.
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Écrits sur la littérature italienne (1941-1974)

ed. by Manuele Gragnolati and Andrea Agliozzo

Galliffet Cahiers, 2025

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Building a Voice

Sound, Surface, Skin
Zeynep Bulut

Goldsmiths Press, 2025

How do we build or make a voice together? Can we imagine the voices we make in the form of a skin, a multi-sensory interface that behaves both as a boundary and as a point of connection? What does such a voice capacitate in times of crises and uncertainties?
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Your Body of Water

Siouxzi Connor

Repeater Books, 2025

Your Body of Water is an interweaving of autofiction with hydro-feminist mythologies, exploring via the emotional landscapes of four rivers and four "tragic feminine characters" (Ophelia, Leda, the Lady of Shalott and Sappho) the author's own real life journey,...
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Flamboyant Fictions

The Failed Art of Passing
Ian Fleishman

Northwestern University Press, 2024

This book posits formal experimentation as an index for evolving expressions of male homosexuality from literary modernism to the German New Wave and the present day. Ian Fleishman exposes a tradition of flamingly failed passing that is itself a surreptitious mode of passing.
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Psychotherapy and Materialism

Essays by François Tosquelles and Jean Oury
Ed. by Marlon Miguel and Elena Vogman
Cultural Inquiry, 31
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2024
Open Access
Institutional psychotherapy emerged in France during World War II as a resistance movement against the fascist extermination of patients with mental and physical disabilities.

Rethinking Lyric Communities

ed. by by Irene Fantappiè, Francesco Giusti, and Laura Scuriatti

Cultural Inquiry, 30
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2024

Open Access
In contemporary Western societies, lyric poetry is often considered an elitist or solipsistic literary genre.
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Hand That Touch This Fortune Will

A History and Theory of Hand Reading after Charlotte Wolff
Sam Dolbear

MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE, 2024

Mapping the hand as cosmos as clinic as history as biography, hand reading is a technique suspended between medical and mystical judgement, empirical diagnosis and speculative divination. This book weaves the lives and work of the ‘reader’ and the ‘read’ together in an intricate fabric.
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