Während Aktivist*innen aller Richtungen die Wissenschaft als selbstverständliche Arena ihres Engagements betrachten oder wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse zur Durchsetzung ihrer Anliegen in Dienst nehmen wollen, wähnen andere die Wissenschaftsfreiheit oder gar das freie Wort überhaupt in Gefahr.

Organisiert von Patrick Eiden-Offe
Eine Veranstaltung des ZfL in Kooperation mit dem ICI Berlin

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The ICI Berlin with its 2020-22 cohort of fellows is pleased to present the first publication to come out of its core project ‘Reduction’, launched in autumn 2020. The Case for Reduction suspends anti-reductionist reflexes to focus on the experiences and practices of different kinds of reduction within and across different fields and approaches — from the sciences, technology, and the arts, to feminist, queer, and decolonial approaches.

With Sabine Mainberger

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The film 'Memoirs of a Vampire' Professor (Laurence Rickels, 2022, 25 min) remasters documentary footage of two sessions of Rickels’s legendary vampirism class at UC Santa Barbara, and intersperses the in-class analysis with scenes and outtakes from Spout (Alex Munoz’s short film based on the screenplay by Rickels).

Laurence Rickels and James Burton will discuss the film and Rickels’ ongoing reading of undeath, in particular with regard to vampirism’s interface or face-off with zombieism, and the contest between SF and fantasy B-genres.

Der Vortrag setzt sich mit den Spuren auseinander, die die Tabuisierung der Gewalterfahrung in Eltern-Kind-Beziehungen und Lebenswelten von Palästinenser*innen verschiedener Generationen in Deutschland und in der Schweiz hinterlässt.

Part of the lecture series Psychoanalytische Kulturwissenschaft 

Eine Kooperation des Berliner Institut für Psychotherapie und Psychoanalyse (BiPP), des kulturwissenschaftlichen Instituts der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, der International Psychoanalytic University (IPU) und des ICI Berlin, organisiert von Wilhelm Brüggen (BIPP), Monika Englisch (BIPP) und Andreas Gehrlach (HU Berlin), gefördert von der Friedrich Stiftung Hannover

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A key proposition of computer music and signal processing is that ‘everything’s a filter’. The human throat, a musical instrument, an algorithm — anything, to paraphrase Julius Smith, that modifies sound in some way. Filtering is also considered a central cultural technique within media studies.

Critical discourse hardly knows a more devastating charge against theories, technologies, or structures than that of being reductive. Yet, expansion and growth cannot fare any better today. This volume suspends anti-reductionist reflexes to focus on the experiences and practices of different kinds of reduction, their generative potentials, ethics, and politics. Can their violences be contained and their benefits transported to other contexts?

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Today’s critical discourses and theorizing vanguards agree on the importance of getting lost, of failure, of erring — as do life coaches and business gurus. The taste for a departure from progress and other teleologies, the fascination with disorder, unfocused modes of attention, or improvisational performances cut across wide swaths of scholarly and activist discourses, practices in the arts, but also in business, warfare, and politics.

Print version (Paperback) 14 €
Print version (Hardcover) 29 €