Writing Letters to
Extraterrestrials
Symposium, 22-24 Sep 2021
To be extra-terrestrial, or extra-earth, might imply excess or spillover from the earthly, being expelled from Terra, or the desire to leave the Earth altogether. It might invoke fears or excitement of greeting an alien other to Earth, or perhaps instead reveal fantasies of being able to leave a damaged Earth behind and become oneself extra-terrestrial.
Organized by Alison Sperling
An ICI Event organized in cooperation with TU Berlin ZIFG and IPODI Initiative, CoFutures/Science Fictionality at the University of Oslo, and the American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw.
The number of participants at the ICI Berlin is limited. Please register on the event page.
Public livestream available.
Please note: external venues on 22 Sep 2021:
The Owl House and diffrakt
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Making Contact with
Deeper Times
with Adriana Knouf
Workshop, 25 Sep 2021, 11:30-14:30
The current moment is one perhaps especially transitional, a time that is causing re-modulations of life so as to become attuned to temporalities that exist beyond the human. There exist many nonhuman entities in the world whose existences make manifest these deeper times.
Part of the symposium Writing Letters to Extraterrestrials.
The number of participants at the ICI Berlin is limited. Please register on the event page.
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Latex
Critical Inflections on (Neo)Extractivism in Latin America
Symposium, 27-28 Sep 2021
Extraction has been historically associated with the removal of underground materials, whereas extractivism is a broader notion connoting a primarily white, colonial mode of accumulation of the West. For most Latin American countries, their natural wealth became their curse, permeating both the material and the symbolic realms.
Organized by Delfina Cabrera, Ariadne Collins, and Marlon Miguel in collaboration with materia – DLCL Focal Group (Stanford University)
The number of participants at the ICI Berlin is limited. Please register on the event page. Public Livestream available.
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The Refusal
of Time
with Natalia Brizuela
Workshop, 4 Oct 2021, 16:00-18:30
In this workshop Brizuela seeks to complicate the notion of ’aftermath‘, which is usually inscribed within a Western, linear conception of time and points, like an arrow, to a future that is to come—a future that we must invest in and create.
Organized by M. Ty
Registration opens on 20 September 2021.
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The Spectacle of Dysmorphia
in Moara Passoni’s film Ecstasy
Screening and Discussion, 14 Oct 2021, 19:30
Cinematic narratives of eating disorders run the risk of presenting their characters largely passive – a risk compounded by the fear of ‘contagion’ that haunt the images of bodies affected by these disorders.
Organized by Clio Nicastro
An ICI event in cooperation with the Volkswagen Foundation
Registration opens on 20 September 2021.
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NEW ICI BERLIN PRESS PUBLICATION
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The Work
of World Literature
ed. by Francesco Giusti and Benjamin Lewis Robinson
Cultural Inquiry, 19
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2021
Open Access
The contentious discourse around world literature tends to stress the ‘world’ in the phrase. This volume, in contrast, asks what it means to approach world literature by inflecting the question of the literary. Print version (Paperback) 12,50 €
Print version (Hardcover) 25,00 €
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Anarchē
Philosophy, Politics, and the Question of the Ground
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Catherine
Malabou
Why the Need for a Philosophical Exploration of Anarchism Today?
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What Happened to
Lesbian and Gay Studies?
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