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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

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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.

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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.

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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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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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