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What is a poetics of scale? This talk draws on Mina Gorji’s practice as a poet and literary critic to explore the affordances of lyric to move between multiple scales of perception, experience, and time. Between sound and history, insect and constellation, crystal and volcano, the temporality of a verse line and deep time, how can poetry disrupt and expand the ways in which we understand belonging?

Part of the ICI Lecture Series Scale

Livestream available.
Registration opens on 16 September 2025.

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This workshop reflects the ongoing collective inquiry by ICI Fellows into the concept of scale. Contributions to the workshop explore scale as it appears in various thematic and disciplinary contexts ranging from theories of artificial intelligence to anthropology and philosophy, and from literary studies to media studies to gender and queer theory.

With Filippo Bosco, Kirill Chepurin, Franco Costantini, Federica Di Blasio, Yuri Di Liberto, Tobi Haslett, Nicolas Helm-Grovas, Magdalena Krysztoforska, José Antonio Magalhães, Jasmine Pisapia, Angelica Stathopoulos, and Verónica Stedile Luna

Organized by current ICI Fellow cohort

Registration opens on 23 September 2025.

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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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