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ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry•application.ici-berlin.org

Parallel to its ongoing research colloquium, the ICI Berlin organizes public events on a wide range of topics. Its core project draws input from and is reflected in an accompanying lecture series.

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Joanna Masó: Instituting Care - Psychotherapy and Materialism

What is the relationship between social and mental alienation? How can one envision care and cure practices that counter the homogenizing policies of institutions and go beyond the neoliberal economy of individual well-being? The evening explores the legacies of institutional psychotherapy, a psychiatric reform and resistance movement that emerged in France in response to the fascist extermination of patients with mental and physical disabilities. Initiated at Saint-Alban psychiatric hospital by...

Apr 23, 2025•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 5

Daniel S. Brooks: Scale Ranges - The Variety of Matter’s Forms, and Levels of Organization as Local Maxima

Originally applied to preserve a materialist worldview that extends beyond physics and chemistry, the notion of levels of organization is one of the most recognizable ideas in biology. Although sometimes (erroneously) used interchangeably, the relationship between ‘levels’ and ‘scale’ presents an exciting (and relatively unexplored) area in theoretical biology and the history and philosophy of science. Here, Brooks will address this lacuna by clarifying how the two notions can inform and enhance...

Mar 20, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 4

Gibson Ncube: The Filmed Body as a Model of Understanding African Queer Lived Experiences

In Africa, a combination of cultural and religious practices, repressive laws instituted during the colonial period, and homophobic nationalisms have ensured that individuals who identify as queer experience their difference in private spaces and at the margins of societies. African people who identify as queer navigate different forms of social silence and this has an important impact on how they toggle between invisibility and visibility and ultimately how they experience embodiment and relati...

Aug 14, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 3

Teresa Fankhänel: Analog World-modelling. Anticipating a Post-war World Through Architectural Models

Full video: https://www.ici-berlin.org/events/teresa-fankhaenel/ Theodore Conrad was an architect and master craftsman. His miniatures of Plexiglas and aluminum modelled a post-war landscape of glass-and-steel skyscrapers, sprawling business campuses, and domestic mid-century modernism from the 1930s onward. With the help of electrified tools and cameras, a vision of a world in Kodachrome arose long before it existed. Architectural modelling — long before the digital turn — became a powerful too...

Feb 06, 2024•58 min•Ep. 2

Maggie Nelson: The Forms Things Want to Come As

Rather than take up the literary world’s on and off obsession with classifications and genre demarcations, this talk will center on the relationship between ideas, things, forms, and shapes — how writing can be a practice of, as poet A. R. Ammons once put it, looking for ‘the forms|things want to come as’. What does it mean for a thing to want to come as a form? What is the relationship between the content of an idea and its shape on the page? To examine such questions, Nelson will read from a v...

Jan 10, 2024•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 1

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