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Poetics and Politics br in Slow Cinema

Poetics and Politics
in Slow Cinema


Book Presentation & Discussion, 2 Jul 2025, 19:00

This event will engage with the debates surrounding Slow cinema as both an aesthetic movement and a political intervention. Based on Rosa Barotsi's new book Time and the Everyday in Slow Cinema, the discussion will focus on how extended duration and dead time in film have been seen as challenging capitalist temporalities while simultaneously risking recuperation by the very systems they purportedly resist. 

With Rosa Barotsi and James Burton

Organized by ICI Berlin and ICI Berlin Press

Livestream available.
Registration required.

 
Sylvia brWynter

Sylvia
Wynter

and the Scales of the Human

Symposium, 26 Jun 2025, 11:00 – 18:00

Unfortunately, the venue is fully booked.

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UPCOMING EVENTS
 
Ara H. brMerjian

Ara H.
Merjian

New Scholarship on Futurism: From Techno-Mystics to Afro-Futurism

Lecture, 8 Jul 2025, 19:00

The first comprehensive avant-garde of the twentieth century, Italian Futurism sought to integrate modern life into every imaginable medium and format, from painting to politics, photography to dance, architecture to music.

Organized by Filippo Bosco and moderated with Max Boersma.

Livestream available.
Registration required.

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Modelling brAbstraction

Modelling
Abstraction

Book Presentation & Discussion, 9 Jul 2025, 19:00

This event explores the problem of abstraction through the lens of modelling practices, taking as its point of departure the recently published volume Breaking and Making Models (ICI Berlin Press, 2025). The discussion focuses on a central philosophical tension articulated throughout its pages: the role of abstraction in enabling, shaping, and sometimes constraining the epistemic and imaginative scope of scientific and artistic practices.

With Julia Sánchez-Dorado, Ross Shields, and Ben Woodard. Moderated by Maria Dębińska.

Organized by ICI Berlin and ICI Berlin Press.

Livestream available.
Registration required.

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That Uncertain brVoice

That Uncertain
Voice

Voice-as-Skin

Book Presentation & Discussion, 16 Jul 2025, 19:00

Based on Zeynep Bulut’s book, Building a Voice: Sound, Surface, Skin (Goldsmiths Press, 2025), this presentation and discussion will explore how one can imagine voice as skin and what such an imagination offers in times of crisis and uncertainties.

With Zeynep Bulut, Brandon LaBelle, and Holger Schulze.

Livestream available.
Registration opens on 1 Jul 2025.

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NEW ICI BERLIN PRESS PUBLICATION
 
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Time and the Everyday
in Slow Cinema

Rosa Barotsi

Cultural Inquiry, 34
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025
Scheduled for 8 July 2025

This book examines the European component of Slow cinema, a strand of contemporary cinema that makes extensive use of distended durations and the ‘dead time’ of quotidian activities. I trace the development of the two notions that form its core — time and the everyday — in order to situate it both in film history and contemporary culture. My aim is to interpret the momentum that this particular approach to filmmaking has gained in recent decades, by examining it in relation to developments in philosophical thought, film theory, technology, the film industry, and the specificity of the contemporary socio-political situation of late capitalism.

Hardcover | 48.5 EUR
Paperback | 19 EUR

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Cover Breaking and Making Models

Breaking and
Making Models

ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Marietta Kesting, Claudia Peppel

Cultural Inquiry, 33
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025

Open Access

Practically anything can be a model of or for something else. What characterizes models is rather their specific reductive relationality, which often promotes understanding but is always generative rather than merely representational. The essays in Breaking and Making Models engage with the normative and performative qualities of models, their aesthetic and political dimensions, and their world-making potentials. Bringing such perspectives into a broad interdisciplinary dialogue, this book explores ways to work creatively with models.

Hardcover | 38.5 EUR
Paperback | 21 EUR

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