Is materialism still relevant to critically think politics? Throughout modernity, the concept of materialism was associated with fatalism and naturalism, when it was not simply dismissed as heresy and atheism. In the nineteenth century, materialism evolved into a central concept of progressive politics, reappearing again in the past decades through renewed Marxist and Spinoza-based approaches, New Materialism, and feminist discourses. This volume inquires these contrasting uses from theoretical and historical perspectives.

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Jean-Luc Nancy has long considered touch to be central for an understanding of the relation between the self and the world, a crucial question of his philosophy he will also explore in his talk. 

With Eva Geulen and Apostolos Lampropoulos

Part of the Lecture Series Intimacy

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.

Video-meeting with the possibility of audiovisual participation. Registration opens on 10 March 2021. Public livestream with the possibility to ask questions via chat.

The movements that redefined art in the 1960s and 1970s substantially drew on workshops for devising new concepts and practices. The workshop format highlights the value of effects that emerge from spending time together in a loosely defined situation.

Organized by Kai van Eikels and Stefan Hölscher for the Fritz Thyssen Project ’Collective Realization – The Workshop as an Artistic-Political Format’ (Institute for Theatre Studies, Ruhr University, Bochum) in collaboration with the ICI Berlin and the PSR Project ‘Our Dance’ (Heizhaus/Uferstudios GmbH) in Berlin

Funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa

Video-meeting with the possibility of audiovisual participation. Please register at workshop.conference@web.de