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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.

A World of Possibilities

The Legacy of The Undivine Comedy
ed. by Kristina M. Olson
Cultural Inquiry, 37
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025
Open Access
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

Open Access
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
Open Access
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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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
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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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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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