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Conceptions of scale often start by assuming objects (which are at a scale or may change scales) or assuming subjects (who re-present or form scales). A different notion of scale, resolution, and science emerges when scale is considered independently from this presumption of objects and subjects. As a device for measuring variations, observations, and experience, scale tracks changes in the configurations of objects, actors, and subjects specifically in relation to units of space and time.

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Pasolini’s poetic gaze probed not only different geographies but also disparate temporalities, drawing provocative analogies, and zooming in and out in the constant attempt to unhinge coordinates, hierarchies, and logics. Fifty years after Pasolini’s death, this event explores his multi-scalar aesthetics, its political relevance, as well as its invitation to return the gaze.

Registration opens on 21 Oct 2025.

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This talk will unpack the paradox inherent in using, or bypassing, the lens of ‘Scale’ in the study of hunter-gatherers. In anthropology, ‘Scale’ is often applied as an etic (outsider) framework, which can inadvertently obscure the emic (insider) perspective. This key modern construct presumes a world composed of discrete, separable entities, understandable through categorization, comparison, and quantifiable units.

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Registration opens on 4 Nov 2025.

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Oggi il corpo è oggetto di mille attenzioni, ma di nessuna cura. Svanisce nel virtuale, ma s’impone in una iperrealtà truccata e decorativa. È la medicina lo scompone in oggetti parziali, la politica lo piega ai suoi scopi, la vita online lo sottrae alle relazioni toccanti. Intanto, sugli schermi dei nostri cellulari, scorrono i corpi veri, quelli che, colpiti dalle bombe, vanno in frantumi e muoiono; quelli che, accoltellati nei femminicidi, perdono sangue e vita.

In Italiano

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Registration opens on 13 Nov 2025.

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Falatório/Chatter delves into the life and work of Stella do Patrocínio (1941–1992), who was confined in Rio de Janeiro’s Colônia Juliano Moreira psychiatric asylum from the age of twenty-one until her death. The unique form of relentless speech that Do Patrocínio produced while institutionalized was dismissed by doctors as mere ‘logorrhoea’. Yet her falatório is far more: a defiant and poetic act that resists erasure by psychiatry, racism, and patriarchy. Drawing on a wide range of archival material, this book presents transcriptions of Do Patrocínio’s chatter in Portuguese and English, amplifying her voice as a testament to survival, power, and resistance.

ISBN 978-3-96558-099-2 | Hardcover | 45 EUR
ISBN 978-3-96558-100-5 | Paperback | 17.5 EUR

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Joanna Masó
Daniel S. Brooks
Gibson N. Cube
Terese Frankhänel
Maggie Nelson

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