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Displaying results 1 to 14 of 14.

  1. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 20.10.2022
    Slavoj Žižek: ‘Unbehagen in der Natur’ / On Thinking the End of Nature (Lecture)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    It is as if the Earth is gradually turning into Trisolaris, a strange planet from The Three-Body Problem , Liu Cixin’s sci-fi masterpiece. Trisolaris has three suns which rise and set at strange and unpredictable intervals: sometimes too far away...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 16.08.2022
  2. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 24.03.2021
    Jean-Luc Nancy: Touche-touche
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ort: ICI Berlin, Christinenstr. 18–19, Haus 8, 10119 Berlin Organisiert von Hanna Hamel (ZfL), Apostolos Lampropoulos (Université Bordeaux Montaigne), Peter Rehberg (Schwules Museum) Kontakt: Hanna Hamel ZfL-Projekt(e):...

    Fields of research French literature,  Literature and philosophy,  Literature of the 20th century and 1 more
    Created on: 15.02.2021
  3. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 25.05.2020
    Jennifer Fay, Thinking on Film with Arendt and Cavell: Lecture (online event)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This talk connects the writings of Hannah Arendt and Stanley Cavell to questions of thinking: what it is and how it appears in the world and on film. For both philosophers, thinking may be understood as a form of leave-taking, roaming, even of...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 13.12.2019
  4. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 10.03.2020
    Lecture: Hashtag Confessions: What Can Psychoanalysis Say About #MeToo? (Nadine Hartmann)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Public feminism today travels by way of a technological update of collective speech acts of avowal and confession understood as already constituting political action — a practice familiar from 1970s feminism. And correspondingly, critiques of ...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and cultural studies and 1 more
    Created on: 09.12.2019
  5. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 24.03.2019
    Lecture: Haunted Futures: 
The Utopian Margins (Avery Gordon)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The philosopher Ernst Bloch declared that ‘all given existence and being itself has utopian margins which surround actuality with real and objective possibility’. This talk takes up the idea of the utopian margins, along with its distinctive...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 02.12.2019
  6. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 25.09.2019
    Thinking the Political after the ‘Ontological Turn’
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Over the recent years, a so-called ‘ontological turn’ has gained prominence, not only in connection with new materialisms, posthumanism, or within the discipline of anthropology, but also in political theory. But what does such an ‘ontological turn’...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy,  Aesthetics
    Created on: 09.09.2019
  7. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    Principles of An-Archy: Hannah Arendt, Reiner Schürmann, and the Politics of the Many
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Facundo Vega’s project, Principles of An-archy: Hannah Arendt, Reiner Schürmann, and the Politics of the Many , compares Arendt’s and Schürmann’s shared but unacknowledged interest in ‘principles’ and ‘beginnings’ inherent to politics. Vega...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  8. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    Residues of Presence: Between Physics and Metaphysics
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project attempts to open a space of convergence between the insights arising from continental philosophy and modern physics. Both have challenged a naive faith in the horizon of constant presence that have long regulated both philosophical and ...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy,  Literature and natural science
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  9. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    When History Merges into Setting: Walter Benjamin and the Decreation of Human Sovereignty
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This monograph turns to the writings of Walter Benjamin with the hope of renewing a critical language for addressing the philosophical pre-conditions of ecological and racialized violence. The project explores how Benjamin re-theorizes notions of...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  10. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    'Nuclear Afterlives'
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This research project, tentatively titled ‘Nuclear Afterlives’, examines the complex and conflicting residues of nuclear contamination, and some of nonhuman harborers of these residues. Following Sperling’s first book project on weird embodiment in...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy,  Literature of the 20th century and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  11. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    Possibility and the Utopian Imagination in the Poetic Practice of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Peripheral but central, external but inner, between being and non-being—possibility has the multi-stable ontology of utopias and their creative and transformative power. Through possibility, writers, philosophers, and artists through the ages have...

    Fields of research Italian literature,  Literature and law,  Literature and theology/study of religions and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  12. Arnd Wedemeyer
    University or institution: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Poststructuralism; Deconstruction; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and law; Literature and philosophy; Lyric poetry; Theory of translation

  13. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 03.06.2019
    A Revision without Reserve. Agamben’s Homo Sacer
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Over the course of two decades, from 1995 to 2015, Giorgio Agamben published a series of nine books, not in sequence but conceived from the beginning as parts of a project sharing the title of its first volume, Homo sacer . These nine books have...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 29.04.2019
  14. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 23.05.2019
    Milieus of Minutiae. Contextualizing the Small in Science, Philosophy, and Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were replete with large-scale projects and interests: the rise of the most colossal modern literary form, the novel; the craze for panorama; the pursuit of imperial ambitions by both European and American...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy,  Literature and natural science,  Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment)
    Created on: 29.04.2019