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 book by former ICI Fellow Ewa Majewska - The Caring Leviathan? : Hiacynt Pink Files, biopolitics, and the queer critical theory
On 15 November 1985, gay men in Poland woke up as the police knocked on their door. The “Hiacynt action” was a series of police and secret services’ surveillance operations targeting gay men, showcasing what Michel Foucault called “biopolitical power”. This book shows the persistence of the “state of exception” (Agamben) for LGBTQIA+ communities; the archive query it depicts demonstrates the continuous use of Hiacynt documents in current Polish police’s operations. The book engages with resistance to the archive and perversions of institutional care for the population, offering a transversal queer critical theory of the state, inspired by Hegel.
New publication co-edited by former ICI Fellow Christiane Frey and former Affiliate Fellow Elizabeth Brogden - Milieus of Minutiae: Contextualizing the Small in Literature, Philosophy, and Science
Milieus of Minutiae brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to investigate various forms and appearances of minutiae prior to and beyond the advent of magnification. The collection illuminates connections between the empirical practices and technologies with which minutiae have come to be associated and the broader, more diffuse discourses—from the philosophical to the artistic—that have attended theories of smallness before and after Hooke’s Micrographia. Placing essays on Renaissance poetry, Romantic fiction, and matters of punctuation alongside essays on early modern germ theory and the optics of microscopic technology, this rigorously framed volume extends from sixteenth-century pathology to twentieth-century architectural theory, natural science to literature and art.
New article by former ICI Fellow Yuri Di Liberto - On the Logical Time of the Diagram: Lacan with Châtelet
This article focuses on the possibility of thinking about relationships and processes of a temporal nature within the concept of the diagram, as articulated by Gilles Châtelet. While the spatial dimension of the diagram is widely recognized, this paper aims to show how the legacy of the French philosopher and mathematician also contains a powerful, yet often implicit, consideration of dynamic-temporal aspects. In particular, it proposes to bring the diagram into dialogue with the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan and his concept of logical time. In light of this theoretical encounter, the article finally suggests a further direction in which logical time and its diagrammatization might proceed.
