Winter Recess
14 Dec 2020 – 8 Jan 2021
The ICI Berlin is in winter recess now. We will resume our public activities with the new term, starting on 11 January 2020. We thank our fellows, staff, associates, cooperation partners, and all the friends of the ICI Berlin and wish everyone healthy and joyful winter days and a happy new year 2021!
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David J. Getsy
Reduction as Expansion. The Queer Capacities of Abstract Art
Lecture, 1 Feb 2021, 19:30
Abstract art is sometimes considered merely formal, and its reductive visual qualities are seen as a refusal of representation or a flight from subject matter. By contrast, this talk will examine how artists and critics have imbued abstraction with queer capacities, seeing it as a means to visualize unorthodox relations and forms.
At ICI Berlin upon prior registration. Registration opens on 11 Jan 2021. Livestream will be available on the ICI website.
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Intimacy
Online Lecture Series 2021
Thu, 11 February 2021, 19:00 Susanna Paasonen: Infrastructures of Intimacy and the Deplatforming of Sex Wed, 24 March 2021, 19:00 Jean-Luc Nancy: Touche-touche Mon, 26 April 2021, 19:00 Tim Dean: How to Have Intimacy in an Epidemic
Organized by Peter Rehberg, Hanna Hamel, and Apostolos Lampropoulos A cooperation of the Schwules Museum Berlin (SMU), the Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL) with its research project ‘Neighborhood in Contemporary Berlin Literature’, and the ICI Berlin. Supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
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NEW ICI BERLIN PRESS PUBLICATION
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Possibilities of Lyric
Reading Petrarch in Dialogue With an Epilogue by Antonella Anedda Angioy
Manuele Gragnolati and Francesca Southerden
Cultural Inquiry, 18 Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2020
Open Access
Opening to passion as an unsettling, transformative force; extending desire to the text, expanding the self, and dissolving its boundaries; imagining pleasures outside the norm and intensifying them; overcoming loss and reaching beyond death; being loyal to oneself and defying productivity, resolution, and cohesion while embracing paradox, non-linearity, incompletion. These are some of the possibilities of lyric that this book explores by reading Petrarch’s vernacular poetry in dialogue with that of other poets, including Guido Cavalcanti, Dante, and Shakespeare. In the Epilogue, the poet Antonella Anedda Angioy engages with Ossip Mandel’štam and Paul Celan’s dialogue with Petrarch and extends it into the present.
Print version 12 €
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Andreas Mayer
The Ambivalent Translator
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Giambattista Vico
und die Italianità der Philosophie
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Weathering Ecologies of Exposure
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