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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

Open Access
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.

The Case for Reduction

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

Cultural Inquiry, 25
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022

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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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Openness in Medieval Europe

ed. by Manuele Gragnolati and Almut Suerbaum

Cultural Inquiry, 23

Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022

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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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Queeres Kino / Queere Ästhetiken
als Dokumentationen des Prekären

ed. by Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky and Philipp Hanke

Cultural Inquiry, 22

Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2021

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Wenn queeres Kino und queere Ästhetiken das Prekäre dokumentieren, dann intendiert dies auch eine Revolution im Symbolischen. Die Beiträge bieten einen Einblick in den gegenwärtigen Stand des queeren Kinos – seiner Filme, Videos und visuellen Installationen.

Over and Over and Over Again

Reenactment Strategies in Contemporary Arts and Theory
ed. by Cristina Baldacci, Clio Nicastro, and Arianna Sforzini

Cultural Inquiry, 21

Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022

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Collecting work by artists, scholars, curators, museum administrators, the volume investigates reenactment's potential for a (re)activation of layered temporal experiences, and its value as an ongoing interpretative and political gesture performed in the present with an eye to the future.

Materialism and Politics

ed. by Bernardo Bianchi, Emilie Filion-Donato, Marlon Miguel, Ayşe Yuva

Cultural Inquiry, 20

Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2021

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Is materialism still relevant to critically think politics? Associated with fatalism and naturalism, it evolved as a central concept of progressive politics, in Marxist- and Spinoza-based approaches, New Materialism, and feminist discourses.
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The Work
of World Literature

ed. by Francesco Giusti and Benjamin Lewis Robinson

Cultural Inquiry, 19

Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2021

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But what becomes of the literary when one speaks of world literature? Responding to Derek Attridge’s theory of how literature ‘works’, the contributions in this volume explore in diverse ways what it might mean to speak of ‘the work of world literature’.
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