Frédérique Aït-Touati A Moving Earth
ICI Lecture, 6 May 2019, 19:30
Since the end of the twentieth century, Earth system sciences combined with biology have profoundly transformed the relationship between the human species and the world it inhabits, to the point of achieving a vertiginous reversal: what becomes clear is that living organisms are not just occupying the world, but making it. The lecture is part of the current ICI Lecture Series ERRANS, environ/s.
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The Ontological Turn
Workshop, 9 May 2019, 14:00 - 17:00
Unfortunately the workshop is fully booked.
Organized by Y. Ariadne Collins
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Robert Fletcher Can the Posthuman Speak?
Lecture, 9 May 2019, 19:30
What are the implications of the increasingly popular ‘posthumanist’ and ‘new materialist’ perspectives that challenge the position of human subjects in research and political action by claiming agency for a range of non-human entities, animate or otherwise.
Organized by Y. Ariadne Collins
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Laurence Rickels Critique of Fantasy
Lecture, 14 May 2019, 20:00
With George Lucas’s Star Wars, we entered the Heimat of blockbusters, which lies in the borderlands of the fantasy and science fiction genres folding out of and staggering a contest that J. R. R. Tolkien inaugurated in the 1930s around his introduction of a new or renewed genre. The lecture is part of the series Psychoanalytic and Cultural Theory.
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John David Rhodes The Prop and its Properties
ICI Lecture, 20 May 2019, 19:30
The prop begs questions of scale, ambience, contingency, commodification, objecthood, and narration. In the context of narrative cinema, props seem as necessary as actors, sets, and locations.
The lecture is part of the current ICI Lecture Series ERRANS, environ/s.
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Milieus of Minutiae
Conference, 23 - 24 May 2019
As new technologies gradually rendered the invisible world available to human perception, the tiny and minor, the minute and infinitesimal gained new importance in literature, philosophy, mathematics, natural sciences, and medicine. Keynotes by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger and Marianne Schuller An ICI Event organized by Elizabeth Brogden, Christiane Frey, and Ulla Haselstein, in cooperation with the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Freie Universität Berlin, generously supported by the Thyssen Foundation
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Luca Di Blasi Dezentrierungen Beiträge zur Religion der Philosophie im 20. Jahrhundert
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