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INVITATION
 
Radikalität brund Populärkultur

Radikalität
und Populärkultur

Book Presentation & Discussion, 19 January 2026, 19:00

Spätestens seit Jeremy Bentham im Jahr 1832 in London seine »Auto-Ikonifizierung« durchsetzte, stiftet die Verbindung aus Radikalität und Populärkultur eine neue Form von Egalität und sozialem Ausgleich, die quer zur Figur der sozialen Beschämung steht.

Elke Schmitter diskutiert mit Mirjam Schaub über die Bedeutung und den Wandel von Radikalität und Radikalisierung in Philosophie, Kunst, Politik und Gesellschaft.

Die Veranstaltung ist eine Kooperation der HAW Hamburg, dem Felix Meiner Verlag und dem ICI Berlin.

Auf Deutsch

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UPCOMING EVENTS
 
The Everyday brin Dramatic Closeness

The Everyday
in Dramatic Closeness

Finissage, 21 Jan 2026, 18:00

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.

Opening Hours:
Wednesday and Thursday: 14:00 – 18:00
Friday: 14:00-17:00

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Scale, Noise, brand Social Form

Scale, Noise,
and Social Form

With Mattin

Workshop, 26 Jan 2026, 15:00-18:00

Participants in this workshop will have the opportunity to engage with the theoretical and practical underpinnings of Mattin’s piece Social Dissonance together with the artist and theorist, as well as to discuss the contemporary socioeconomic predicaments that necessitate it. 

Organized by Nicolas Helm-Grovas and José Antonio Magalhães

Part of the performance Social Dissonance with Mattin.

Registration opens on 12 January 2026.

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Social brDissonance

Social
Dissonance

With Mattin

Performance, 26 Jan 2026, 19:00

Social Dissonance is a collective improvisation, a participatory performance, a strange concert. It creates a context for a collaborative, experimental investigation into the unfreedom and instrumentalization under capitalist social relations, and the embedding in processes of mediation – economic, social, linguistic, and more. Participants are invited to an open-ended collective performance the terms of which are left open.

Includes the workshop Scale, Noise, and Social Form with Mattin.

Registration opens on 12 January 2026.

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Frantz Fanon’s brSocial Therapy

Frantz Fanon’s
Social Therapy

'To Give Body to an Institution'

Symposium, 29-30 January 2026

The symposium Frantz Fanon’s Social Therapy: ‘To Give Body to an Institution’ explores Frantz Fanon’s political, clinical, and aesthetic approach to institutions along three interrelated lines. First, it delves into the impact of Saint-Alban on Fanon’s conception of madness and the institution as both in need of a cure and capable of curing — a sociogenic and phenomenological perspective attentive to embodiment, subjectivity, and history. Second, it turns to his work at Blida-Joinville and Charles-Nicolle, where colonial alienation thwarted the implementation of social therapy, yet where Fanon and his collaborators experimented with media, spatial, and aesthetic practices to propose new forms of collective life.

Organized by Camilla Caglioti, Marlon Miguel, and Elena Vogman as part of the Research project ’Madness, Media, Milieus. Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe‘ (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, funded by Freigeist Fellowship of the Volkswagen Foundation) in collaboration with ICI Berlin

Registration opens on 12 January 2026.

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NEW ICI BERLIN PRESS PUBLICATIONS
 
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Sarah Horn

trans*Werden

Queere Zeitlichkeiten und Transitionen in Videoblogs


Cultural Inquiry, 38
ICI Berlin Press, 2025

Open Access

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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