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Nurit brBird-David

Nurit
Bird-David

The Scale Paradox: Hunter-Gatherer Connective Worlds

Lecture, 17 Nov 2025, 19:30

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. Such assumptions hinder our understanding of indigenous traditions, which often prioritize the interconnectedness of diverse humans and other-than-humans and often lack formal counting systems.

Part of the ICI Lecture Series Scale

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UPCOMING EVENTS
 
Corpo psichico, brmedico, vivente

Corpo psichico,
medico, vivente

Vittorio Lingiardi

Lecture, 28 Nov 2025, 19:00

Oggi il corpo è oggetto di mille attenzioni, ma di nessuna cura. Svanisce nel virtuale, ma s’impone in una iperrealtà truccata e decorativa. 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

Livestream available.
Registration opens on 13 Nov 2025.

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Yannick Giovanni brMarshall

Yannick Giovanni
Marshall

Unweighed Lives: On the Misrecognition of Fascism in the 'Colonized Sector'

Lecture, 1 Dec 2025, 19:30

This talk examines the political temporality of scale in dominant US media and popular discourse — specifically, the persistent use of the term ‘increasingly’ as a scalar alibi for fascism’s long-standing grip on Black life. Phrases like ‘increasingly authoritarian’, ‘worsening racism’, or ‘sliding into fascism’ depend on a vantage point that begins not with the plantation or the occupied zone, but with the belated disturbance of those previously unaffected.

Part of the ICI Lecture Series Scale

Livestream available.
Registration opens on 18 Nov 2025.

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A Night br for the Everyday

A Night
for the Everyday

ICI Library Event, 3 Dec 2025, 19:30

The ICI Library Event will consist of a staged reading, delving into the manifold ways scale plays out in the literary perception of everyday life, and, in its second half, the opening of the exhibition ‘The Everyday in Dramatic Closeness’, which focuses on everyday objects and the notion of scale in the visual realm.

Organized by Filippo Bosco, Christoph Breuer, Louisa Elderton, Claudia Peppel, Jasmine Pisapia, Silke Schwarz, Verónica Stedile Luna, and Anna Winder Salling

Registration required.

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The Everyday brin Dramatic Closeness

The Everyday
in Dramatic Closeness

Exhibition Opening, 3 Dec 2025, 19:30

This group exhibition focuses on everyday objects and the notion of scale in the visual realm. It presents photographic works as well as paintings and drawings, exploring questions of proportion, size, and zoom effects to consider the social, political, and aesthetic implications of scale in daily experience.

With works by Filippo Bosco, Christoph Breuer, Delfina Cabrera, Neta Choli-Avidan, Y Ariadne Collins, Yuri Di Liberto, Sarath Jakka, Claudia Peppel, Jasmine Pisapia, Silke Schwarz, Verónica Stedile Luna, and Anna R. Winder.

Exhibition: 3 Dec 2025 - 21 Jan 2026
Part of the Event A Night for the Everyday

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NEW ICI BERLIN PRESS PUBLICATIONS
 
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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

Open Access

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.

ISBN 978-3-96558-103-6 | Hardcover | 39 EUR
ISBN 978-3-96558-104-3 | Paperback | 21.5 EUR

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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

Open Access

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.

ISBN 978-3-96558-103-6 | Hardcover | 36 EUR
ISBN 978-3-96558-104-3 | Paperback | 18.5 EUR

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Stella do Patrocínio

Falatório/Chatter

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

Cultural Inquiry, 35
ICI Berlin Press, 2025

Open Access

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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