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This talk addresses the relationship between subject formation in contemporary technoscience and the theoretical problems of scale at work in ICI’s lecture series. Drawing on the ontology and media theory of Gilbert Simondon, Woods understands scientific subjectification in terms of a tension between at least two qualitatively different scales such as weather and climate. His central example is computational climate modelling — especially the use of grids, time steps, and parameters to establish a model’s resolution.

Part of the ICI Lecture Series Scale

Livestream available
Registration opens on 29 April 2025

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This symposium seeks to investigate how information processing, cognition, and other forms of sensing and making sense occur at different scales, and how the ways of understanding these scales inform and deform one another across the contemporary earth and life sciences.

Organized by Maria Dębińska, Magdalena Krysztoforska, Julia Sánchez-Dorado, Ben Woodard

Registration opens on 6 May 2025

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Queer Post-Cinema: Reinventing Resistance offers a novel perspective on the subject of queer cinema, highlighting the interplay between the cinematic dispositif and digital media in post-cinema. The conversation between Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky and Katrin Pahl will focus on the field’s connection with subjectivation as linked to sexuality.

With Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky and Katrin Pahl

Organized by ICI Berlin and ICI Berlin Press

Livestream available
Registration opens on 6 May 2025

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The conference explores the powerful role of affect and emotion in driving social and political mobilization. It examines the dynamics of affect in prompting (political) action, shaping activist practices, and sustaining social movements. In the context of global crises, disputes over inequalities, identities, and rights are intensifying, while affects and emotions are increasingly becoming subjects of negotiation and social conflict. 

The conference is organized by the Collaborative Research Center 1171 ‘Affective Societies’, FU Berlin, in cooperation with the TU Dresden research project ‘Image Protests on Social Media’ and ICI Berlin.

Registration opens on 6 May 2025

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In this talk, Halberstam will explore the meaning of trans embodiment using a vocabulary borrowed from a 1970’s art collective called ‘anarchitecture’. The work of Gordon Matta-Clark represents the spirit and the intentions of this group. Halberstam believes one should use the language of anarchitecture to describe trans embodiment for a few reasons: First, trans bodies should not become legible within the system of gender that was constructed around its exclusion. In other words, if trans bodies violate binary gender, then they cannot seek to become ‘real’ through that same binary.

Livestream available
Registration opens on 13 May 2025

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The original meaning of subjectivity is to submit, akin to ‘lying under’ or ‘below’. Even though the Latin heritage of subjectivity involves a bottom perspective, a gaze from below, the subject in a modern understanding claims its self by way of the upper cases. The subject is marked by the big I, everyone else by small letters. This workshop returns to the pathetic heritage of subjectivity to forefront its diminutive aspects.

With Jack Halberstam

Organized by Angelica Stathopoulos

Registration opens on 13 May 2025.

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Das ICI Berlin, ein unabhängiges, gemeinnütziges Forschungsinstitut in Berlin/Prenzlauer Berg, sucht für seine interdisziplinäre, kulturwissenschaftlich orientierte Präsenzbibliothek, die ICI Library, zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine/n Wissenschaftliche/n Bibliothekar*in (in Teilzeit, 50%). Die ICI Library hilft den akademischen Mitarbeiter*innen und Stipendiat*innen bei ihrer Forschung und entwickelt den Bestand in enger Orientierung an den Forschungsschwerpunkten des Instituts weiter. Die/der zukünftige Bibliothekar*in unterstützt zudem die Open Access Publikationstätigkeit des Verlags ICI Berlin Press. Die ICI Library ist Mitglied im Gemeinsamen Bibliotheksverbund GBV. Die Stelle, 50% Teilzeit, wird je nach persönlichen Voraussetzungen in Anlehnung an TVöD bis Entgeltgruppe 12 vergütet, sie ist ab dem 15. Mai 2025 zu besetzen und zunächst auf zwei Jahre befristet.

Deadline 10. April 2025

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