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‘Shock and awe’ is typically a state of reduced capacity to act, move, or resist. Under very special conditions it can be experienced as vitalizing, but in the current conjuncture, it is most readily associated with military or terrorist strategies directed at foreign enemies or, more startingly, turned inward in the hands of disaster capitalism and aspiring autocrats. The effect of dumbfounding paralysis is even more potent with actions that appear themselves self-destructive: when subjects wilfully demolish what used to secure their prestige and power; when rising authoritarian regimes are supported in anticipatory obedience; or when climate change seems to be deliberately accelerated through escalating arms and technology races. How can one not feel utterly disoriented, when it seems as if the world is so clearly oriented towards its own destruction?

Interested applicants should read the announcement on www.ici-berlin.org/fellowships-announcement.

Application deadline:
5 January 2026, 14:00 (CET)

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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.
In-person: Registration required.

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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

In-person: Registration required.

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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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Das Buch trans* Werden. Queere Zeitlichkeiten und Transitionen in Videoblogs widmet sich in einer medienwissenschaftlichen Analyse ausgewählten Videos von trans* Videobloggern, die ihre geschlechtlichen Transitionen in den 2010er Jahren auf YouTube dokumentieren. In selbstdokumentarischen Praktiken verbunden mit den Wirkungen des Testosterons auf die Körper offenbart sich trans* Sein als ein komplexes und ungewisses Werden, das in medialer Umgebung als queere Zeitlichkeit erfahrbar wird. Hierbei stehen die Effekte der Mediatisierung im Fokus der Analyse.

ISBN 978-3-96558-111-1 | Hardcover | 37.5 EUR
ISBN 978-3-96558-112-8 | Paperback | 20.5 EUR

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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 978-3-96558-107-4 | Hardcover | 39 EUR
ISBN 978-3-96558-108-1 | Paperback | 21.5 EUR

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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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