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Monumental

How a New Generation of Artists Is Shaping the Memorial Landscape
Cat Dawson

MIT Press, 2025

For centuries, monuments have telegraphed the values and origin myths of dominant culture in public space and on massive scale. They have signaled both who is part of a culture and who is not, often overlooking histories that complicate the stories they tell.
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The Juridification of Democracy

How Politics Travels from the Streets to the Courts, and Back Again
Natascia Tosel

Taylor & Francis, 2026

This book examines what it identifies as an increasing juridification of politics. This term refers to the use of law by both state and non-state social actors to advance their political demands and strategies.

trans* Werden

Queere Zeitlichkeiten und Transitionen in Videoblogs
Sarah Horn

Cultural Inquiry, 38
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025

Open Access
Das Buch trans* Werden. Queere Zeitlichkeiten und Transitionen in Videoblogs widmet sich in einer medienwissenschaftlichen Analyse ausgewählten Videos von trans* Videobloggern, die ihre geschlechtlichen Transitionen in den 2010er Jahren auf YouTube dokumentieren.
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Il presente vivo

Temporalità del divenire e del trauma in Lispector, Ortese e Philip
Alberica Bazzoni

Mimesis Edizioni, 2025

Il presente vivo è l’esperienza incarnata del divenire temporale, in compartecipazione fra il sé e il mondo; di contro, il trauma interrompe e disgrega la temporalità. Avvalendosi degli strumenti della fenomenologia, del femminismo postumano e degli studi decoloniali, e in dialogo con altre dimensioni temporali quali l’epifania, la linearità teleologica e l’atemporalità della metafisica, il volume esplora la relazione fra divenire e trauma in tre capolavori letterari della contemporaneità...

A World of Possibilities

The Legacy of The Undivine Comedy
ed. by Kristina M. Olson
Cultural Inquiry, 37
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025
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Published in 1992, Teodolinda Barolini’s The Undivine Comedy: Detheologizing Dante was a clarion call for a paradigmatic shift in reading Dante’s Commedia. Bringing together an international cadre of scholars, A World of Possibilities: The Legacy of ‘The Undivine Comedy’ illustrates the generative influence that Barolini’s approach...
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Pasolini

Dialogues avec la France / Dialoghi con la Francia
ed. by Marco Antonio Bazzocchi, Paolo Desogus, Manuele Gragnolati, Anne-Violaine, Houcke Hervé, Joubert-Laurencin, Davide Luglio

Cultural Inquiry, 36
ICI Berlin Press, 2025

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Tout au long de son œuvre, Pasolini n’aura cessé de s’adresser à la France, de l’interpeller, et la France lui a répondu. De quelle France a-t-il parlé ou a-t-il rêvé ? Quels écrivains et cinéastes, quelle poésie, quelle langue et quelle théorie entrèrent dans sa vie, dans ses vers et dans ses images ?

Falatório/Chatter

Stella do Patrocínio
Ed. by Iracema Dulley and Marlon Miguel
Cultural Inquiry, 35
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025
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Falatório/Chatter delves into the life and work of Stella do Patrocínio (1941–1992), who was confined in Rio de Janeiro’s Colônia Juliano Moreira psychiatric asylum from the age of twenty-one until her death.

Time and the Everyday in Slow Cinema

Rosa Barotsi
Cultural Inquiry, 34
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025
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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
ICI Berlin Press, 2025

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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
Open Access
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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