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 ICI Fellow Angelica Stathopoulos - From Mr. Big to mr. small: Seven Interludes on Impotence
Making a case for the ethico-political potential of impotence, the seven interludes that make up this text focus on the virtues of small life. They show that passive experiences provide a lens through which to reduce the i, which allows for the other to become augmented. Inspired by the formal promiscuity of Jack Halber- stam’s theoretical methodology, this text revisits some of the biggest figures of the Western philosophical and literary canon, which are read in relation to queer and feminist thought in order to intimate a diminutive, pathetic, and impotent subject.
New publication co-edited by ICI Fellow Franco Costantini - Formes de l’échec: Déclinaisons et enjeux d’une notion dans la tradition italienne et au-delà
L’échec, donc, non comme étape négative à dépasser, dans un développement dialectique et linéaire, mais comme événement signifiant en soi, moment constitutif de l’expérience à reconnaître et à analyser ; aussi, potentiellement, pourvoyeur de renversements des ordres établis, dans la critique comme dans la société, souffleur discret de nouvelles hiérarchies, point focal de stratégies inédites.
New article by Visiting Fellow Jasmine Pisapia - Poisonous Images: Taranto’s Environmental Crisis between the Visible and the Invisible
Drawing on years of ethnographic fieldwork in Taranto, southern Italy—one of Europe’s most industrially polluted cities—this essay reflects on toxicity’s material and discursive entanglements via a set of poisonous images shot in the city’s highly contaminated cemetery. Amid the slow unraveling of thiscross-generational ecological crisis, poison takes over not only bodies and environments but also affects, psyches, and subjectivities, permeating everyday life, as well as the realm of the dead. Yet toxicity vacillates between the visible and the invisible, while etiological connections remain difficult to prove. How, then, does one bring this crisis into language and visibility, even if only intermittently? And where does this leave the task of ethnography?
Image credit: Jasmine Pisapia
