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ICI Berlin Press Newsletter


The ICI Berlin Press newsletter focuses on news and highlights from the publishing house. These include the latest releases and upcoming books, as well as providing access to the back catalogue of ICI Berlin Press.
 
 
 
 

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trans*Werden


Queere Zeitlichkeiten und Transitionen in Videoblogs

Sarah Horn

Cultural Inquiry, 38
ICI Berlin Press, 2025

Das Buch trans* Werden. Queere Zeitlichkeiten und Transitionen in Videoblogs widmet sich in einer medienwissenschaftlichen Analyse ausgewählten Videos von trans* Videobloggern, die ihre geschlechtlichen Transitionen in den 2010er Jahren auf YouTube dokumentieren. In selbstdokumentarischen Praktiken verbunden mit den Wirkungen des Testosterons auf die Körper offenbart sich trans* Sein als ein komplexes und ungewisses Werden, das in medialer Umgebung als queere Zeitlichkeit erfahrbar wird. Hierbei stehen die Effekte der Mediatisierung im Fokus der Analyse.

Paperback 20.50 €
Hardcover 37.50 €

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A World of Possibilities


The Legacy of The Undivine Comedy

Ed. by Kristina M. Olson

Cultural Inquiry, 37
ICI Berlin Press, 2025

Published in 1992, Teodolinda Barolini’s The Undivine Comedy: Detheologizing Dante was a clarion call for a paradigmatic shift in reading Dante’s Commedia. Bringing together an international cadre of scholars, A World of Possibilities: The Legacy of ‘The Undivine Comedy’ illustrates the generative influence that Barolini’s approach has exerted across continents, disciplines, and generations. It testifies to the variety of interpretations that originate in her method, and opens new perspectives on Dante’s oeuvre and the significance of literature.

Paperback 21.50 €
Hardcover 39 €

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Pasolini


Dialogues avec la France / Dialoghi con la Francia

Ed. by Marco Antonio Bazzocchi, Paolo Desogus, Manuele Gragnolati, Anne-Violaine Houcke, Hervé Joubert-Laurencin, Davide Luglio

Cultural Inquiry, 36
ICI Berlin Press, 2025

Tout au long de son œuvre, Pasolini n’aura cessé de s’adresser à la France, de l’interpeller, et la France lui a répondu. De quelle France a-t-il parlé ou a-t-il rêvé ? Quels écrivains et cinéastes, quelle poésie, quelle langue et quelle théorie entrèrent dans sa vie, dans ses vers et dans ses images ? D’autre part, de quel Pasolini la France a-t-elle parlé et parle-t-elle encore ? De quoi est fait son rêve de Pasolini ? En interrogeant les formes de ce dialogue entre Pasolini et la France, qui fut et qui est encore aujourd’hui à la fois intellectuel, sensuel et résolument intranquil, ce volume montre l’étrange et inextinguible actualité de Pasolini.

Paperback 18.50 €
Hardcover 36 €

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Thinking Collectives /
Collective Thinking


Ed. by Eva Bentcheva
Annie Jael Kwan
Ming Tiampo

Worlding Public Cultures
ICI Berlin Press, 2025

Thinking Collectives / Collective Thinking delves into the dynamics of collective artistic practices, and looks in particular at histories, personal experiences, and theories in the context of global Asias. Featuring contributions from artists, curators, and activists, it focuses on the diverse contexts that shape both making and researching art. This ‘Companion’ book aims to bridge historical and theoretical knowledge with first-hand experiences and serves as a resource for a ‘worlded’ art history and contemporary practice.

Paperback 14.50 €

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS
 
KV Transitions

Transitions

Queer Temporalities in Trans Video Blogs

Book Presentation and Discussion
16 February 2026, 19:00

With Sarah Horn, Cat Dawson, and Antke Engel

The discussion will be based on the book trans* Werden. Queere Zeitlichkeiten und Transitionen in Videoblogs (Becoming Trans: Queer Temporalities and Transitions in Video Blogs), which consists of a media studies analysis of selected videos by trans video bloggers who documented their gender transitions on YouTube in the 2010s.

Registration Open

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RECENT AUTHOR INTERVIEWS
 
Iracema Dulley

Iracema Dulley

Discussing her volume co-edited with Marlon Miguel
Stella do Patrocínio: Falatório/Chatter

Available to Watch 
 
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Julia Sánchez-Dorado

Discussing her essay in the volume Breaking and Making Models
Ed. by Christoph F.E. Holzhey, Marietta Kesting, and Claudia Peppel

Available to Watch 
 
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Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky

Discussing her volume
Queer Post-Cinema: Reinventing Resistance

Available to Watch 
 
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Francesco Giusti

Discussing his volume co-edited with Irene Fantappiè and Laura Scuriatti
Rethinking Lyric Communities

Available to Watch 
 
 
 
 

RECENT PRESS
 
e-flux

'The patient's concrete society is itself the sick individual'

Review of Psychotherapy and Materialism
By Jana Graham

e-flux Notes

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Italica

Review of Elena Lombardi's Ulysses, Dante, and Other Stories

By Paola Basile

Italica 101:4 (2024), pp. 672–74

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BOOKSHOPS
 
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ICI Berlin Press Stockists

ICI Berlin Press books are available at a number of Berlin-based bookshops including Pro qm, She said, b_books, Archive Books Souq at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, and Walther König's bookshops at Gropius Bau, Hamburger Bahnhof, and Museumsinsel. They are also available in London at Whitechapel Gallery Bookshop, in Reykjavík at bókumbók, and in Dresden at Rotorbooks. 
 
 
 

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