For the time being, the ICI’s programming will continue in a variety of online formats. You can find the exact modalities of each event on the dedicated event page at the ICI website.
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Domestic
Optimism
with Emma Wolf-Haugh
Online Performance and Discussion
17 Jun 2020, 18:00
Colonial aesthetics, obscenity trials, masculine hysteria, crime scene photography, sexology, the production and obfuscation of the lesbian throughout modernity, and the contemporary collapse of post-war social housing projects, all intersect in Domestic Optimism, a critical queer and working class reading of architecture, furniture, and modernist aesthetics. Video-meeting with limited number of participants, please register online.
Please note that there will be no public livestream of this event.
Organized by Amelia Groom
Supported by The Project Arts Centre, The Grazer Kunstverein, The Irish Arts Council, IMMA 1000, and Askeaton Contemporary Arts
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Fordlandia
Malaise
with and by Susana de Sousa Dias
Online Screening and Discussion, 13 Jul 2020, 19:30
Fordlandia Malaise by Susana de Sousa Dias (2019, 40′), is a film about the memory and the present of Fordlandia, the company town founded by Henry Ford in the Amazon rain forest in 1928.
This offshoot of the symposium LATEX – Critical Inflections on (Neo)Extractivism in Latin America will take place online in the form of a screening of the film Fordlandia Malaise, followed by a discussion with its director, Susana de Sousa Dias.
Organized by Delfina Cabrera, Ariadne Collins, and Marlon Miguel in collaboration with materia – DLCL Focal Group (Stanford University)
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Dante's
Modernity
An Introduction to the Monarchia. With an Essay by Judith Revel
ed. by Christiane Frey, Manuele Gragnolati, Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Arnd Wedemeyer
Cultural Inquiry, 16
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2020
Open Access
Claude Lefort, one of the most prominent political philosophers of the twentieth century, reads Dante’s Monarchia, showing the surprising relevance of this radical fourteenth-century treatise that defends the necessity of universal monarchy and its independence from the Church for modern political theory.
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Petrolio 25 anni dopo
ed. by Carla Benedetti, Manuele Gragnolati, and Davide Luglio
Macerata: Quodlibet, 2020
Released only 17 years after the author’s assassination, Pasolini’s Petrolio faced bitter controversies, which did not help its understanding. Exploring the entanglements of political and economic power of those years, the novel’s aesthetics has inspired biopolitical reflections and contemporary queer aesthetics.
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Jennifer
Fay
Thinking on Film with Arendt and Cavell
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Nadine
Hartmann
Hashtag Confessions: What Can Psychoanalysis Say About #MeToo?
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Didier
Debaise
Nature and Its Others. The Invention of a Political Force
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