The ICI Berlin announces 12 post-doctoral fellowships for the ICI Focus ‘AutoReduction’ of the ICI Core Project ‘Reduction’.
‘Shock and awe’ is typically a state of reduced capacity to act, move, or resist. Under very special conditions it can be experienced as vitalizing, but in the current conjuncture, it is most readily associated with military or terrorist strategies directed at foreign enemies or, more startingly, turned inward in the hands of disaster capitalism and aspiring autocrats. The effect of dumbfounding paralysis is even more potent with actions that appear themselves self-destructive: when subjects wilfully demolish what used to secure their prestige and power; when rising authoritarian regimes are supported in anticipatory obedience; or when climate change seems to be deliberately accelerated through escalating arms and technology races. How can one not feel utterly disoriented, when it seems as if the world is so clearly oriented towards its own destruction?
Interested applicants should read the announcement on www.ici-berlin.org/fellowships-announcement.
Application deadline:
5 January 2026, 14:00 (CET)
