About
Welcome to the ICI Library! The ICI Library is a reference library to be used on site. We support the scholars of the ICI Berlin in their research by supplying them with the needed literature and bibliographical information. While we develop our collection in close connection with the collective research projects of the ICI Berlin, we use interlibrary loan services to make materials available that are needed by individual researchers.
The ICI Library is registered with the library code ISIL BE–1578 by the ISIL Agency of Germany, is a member of the GBV Common Library Network, the German Library Association (dbv e. V.), and of the Working Community of German Special Libraries (AspB e. V.)
It is a partner of the Specialized Information Service for Comparative Literature (SIS Comparative Literature/FID AVL) and supports the ICI’s publishing venture ICI Berlin Press.
Collection
The ICI Library houses a collection reflecting the multidisciplinary research undertaken at the Institute in general and the work on its core projects in particular, with a focus on research in cultural theory. The library also houses the ICI Edition, a collection of recordings of events organized at the ICI Berlin. All recordings published in the ICI Edition have an entry in the library catalogue, which contains a link to the video hosted on the ICI website. The library also archives the posters and flyers of ICI Events as well as press materials and literature reviews related to the ICI Berlin.
Information
The holdings of the ICI Library are recorded in the local catalogue as well as in the Common Union Catalogue (GVK) of the Common Library Network (GBV), carrying call numbers and location information. Please note, however, that the catalogue does not give information about the status of individual items, since the ICI Library uses an internal lending system not connected to the publically accessible GVK catalogue. Please inquire with library staff if the desired title is presently available.
Unfortunately, we cannot offer regular use of the ICI Library to our guests. You are welcome, however, to visit us and use our holdings on site. Please contact us in advance in order to make an appointment.
Service
The library staff is present and ready to assist you on:
- Tues 10:00 – 18:00
- Wed 10:00 – 18:00
- Thurs 11:00-17:00
- Fri 13:00-18:00
Anna R. Winder Salling (Librarian)
anna.windersalling@ici-berlin.org
Tel: 473 7291-26
Christian Cortés (Assistant Librarian)
christian.cortes@ici-berlin.org
Tel: 473 7291-29
New Article by Visiting Fellow Annie Ring - AI Uncanny: Posthuman Entanglement and Biomachinic Ethics in "The Trouble with Being Born"
Imagine a sci-fi world in which vulnerability is not monopolised by humans, and machines are not powerful overlords. This article addresses the uncanny case of a biomachine that is more vulnerable than the humans around her in the Austrian sci-fi drama The Trouble with Being Born (2020), directed by Sandra Wollner. The film’s protagonist is an interactive child robot, Elli, whose simulation of human life enhances the capacities of her father/owner in transhumanist fashion, permitting him to grieve for his lost daughter while indulging in leisure time and sex with her biomachinic replicant. The article explores the film’s aesthetic representation of the transhumanist violence of the father/creator and the vulnerability of the biomachine, played out in their brightly surveillant Bauhaus-style home in the woods.
New Article by Visiting Fellow Yolanda Ariadne Collins - ‘Mine the volume’: Excess and the voluminous ecological politics of capitalist frontiers
Mining frontiers are moving ever further beyond Earth’s surface, as new subterranean realms, the seafloor, the atmosphere and outer space increasingly come into the purview of entrepreneurial activity. In this paper, we deploy an environmental governmentality analytic to examine mining as a site-specific, intervening activity that brings the relationship between these different material spaces into view. Overall, the paper draws attention to the overlapping nature of the planet’s voluminous, material spaces and its ability to frustrate environmental governance efforts. It offers a voluminous analysis across material spaces to burgeoning debates within political ecology.
Out now: New Publication by former fellow Alberica Bazzoni - Il presente vivo: Temporalità del divenire e del trauma in Lispector, Ortese e Philip
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: Acqua viva di Clarice Lispector, Il porto di Toledo di Anna Maria Ortese e Zong! di M. NourbeSe Philip.
