The ICI Berlin is an independent research centre dedicated to exploring how diverse cultures can be brought into productive rather than pernicious confrontation.
The Institute enacts an expansive and deliberately dissonant understanding of culture that includes cultural formations (involving categories of class, gender, sexuality, and race) as well as fields of knowledge production (science, art, economics, law, media, politics).
It defines itself through a series of interlocking core projects that are designed to traverse different disciplines and foster theoretical and critical interventions of cultural inquiry. The ICI Berlin understands itself as a catalyst of radical reflection within a larger research landscape in Berlin and beyond, frequently also as a link between scholarship, cultural work, artistic practices, and activism.
Postdoctoral fellows are invited from across the globe to spend two years at the Institute to pursue their individual projects in varied disciplines, but also to shape, advance, and probe the Institute’s core project in a weekly research colloquium as well as by collaboratively organizing workshops, symposia, and conferences.
Fellowships are usually advertised every other year for a particular core project. Applications can only be considered when received during the application period.
Parallel to its ongoing research colloquium, the ICI Berlin organizes a variety of performances, panel discussions, art events, and readings, welcoming diverse audiences living in or passing through Berlin. It also welcomes cooperations with partner institutions and other research projects.
Founded in 2006 as a private non-profit organization, the ICI Berlin is situated in Prenzlauer Berg on the border to Berlin-Mitte within the Pfefferberg Complex, a former brewery turned into a cultural and social centre. It has several private and public spaces for research, conversation, and exchange, including a research library for staff and fellows, which reflects past and present core projects and facilitates the use of other libraries in Berlin.
Further information can be found across our website https://www.ici-berlin.org.
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The ICI Berlin is an independent research centre dedicated to exploring how diverse cultures can be brought into productive rather than pernicious confrontation.
The Institute enacts an expansive and deliberately dissonant understanding of culture that includes cultural formations (involving categories of class, gender, sexuality, and race) as well as fields of knowledge production (science, art, economics, law, media, politics).
It defines itself through a series of interlocking core projects that are designed to traverse different disciplines and foster theoretical and critical interventions of cultural inquiry. The ICI Berlin understands itself as a catalyst of radical reflection within a larger research landscape in Berlin and beyond, frequently also as a link between scholarship, cultural work, artistic practices, and activism.
Postdoctoral fellows are invited from across the globe to spend two years at the Institute to pursue their individual projects in varied disciplines, but also to shape, advance, and probe the Institute’s core project in a weekly research colloquium as well as by collaboratively organizing workshops, symposia, and conferences.
Fellowships are usually advertised every other year for a particular core project. Applications can only be considered when received during the application period.
Parallel to its ongoing research colloquium, the ICI Berlin organizes a variety of performances, panel discussions, art events, and readings, welcoming diverse audiences living in or passing through Berlin. It also welcomes cooperations with partner institutions and other research projects.
Founded in 2006 as a private non-profit organization, the ICI Berlin is situated in Prenzlauer Berg on the border to Berlin-Mitte within the Pfefferberg Complex, a former brewery turned into a cultural and social centre. It has several private and public spaces for research, conversation, and exchange, including a research library for staff and fellows, which reflects past and present core projects and facilitates the use of other libraries in Berlin.
Further information can be found across our website https://www.ici-berlin.org.
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 variety of her works and think about how they relate (or don’t) to poet Robert Creeley’s famous contention, ‘form is never more than an extension of content’. Possible tributary lines of thought include: the literary nature of (some) philosophy; the question of ‘vernacular scholarship’ (a term coined by Eileen Myles), various strategies of performing the self in writing; and the value of never settling, of staying on the move.
Maggie Nelson is the author of several acclaimed books of poetry and prose, including the forthcoming collection Like Love: Essays and Conversations (2024), the national bestseller On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (2021), the National Book Critics Circle Award winner The Argonauts (2015), The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (2011), Bluets (2009; named by Bookforum as one of the top 10 best books of the past 20 years), The Red Parts (2007), Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (2007), and Jane: A Murder (2005). In 2016 she received a MacArthur ‘genius’ Fellowship. She currently teaches at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles, CA.
In English, with Maggie Nelson, Introduction by Mark Anthony Cayanan
The talk will be followed by a Q&A with Marta Aleksandrowicz and Ruth Ramsden-Karelse
Full video: https://www.ici-berlin.org/events/maggie-nelson/
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The ICI Berlin is an independent research centre dedicated to exploring how diverse cultures can be brought into productive rather than pernicious confrontation.
The Institute enacts an expansive and deliberately dissonant understanding of culture that includes cultural formations (involving categories of class, gender, sexuality, and race) as well as fields of knowledge production (science, art, economics, law, media, politics).
It defines itself through a series of interlocking core projects that are designed to traverse different disciplines and foster theoretical and critical interventions of cultural inquiry. The ICI Berlin understands itself as a catalyst of radical reflection within a larger research landscape in Berlin and beyond, frequently also as a link between scholarship, cultural work, artistic practices, and activism.
Postdoctoral fellows are invited from across the globe to spend two years at the Institute to pursue their individual projects in varied disciplines, but also to shape, advance, and probe the Institute’s core project in a weekly research colloquium as well as by collaboratively organizing workshops, symposia, and conferences.
Fellowships are usually advertised every other year for a particular core project. Applications can only be considered when received during the application period.
Parallel to its ongoing research colloquium, the ICI Berlin organizes a variety of performances, panel discussions, art events, and readings, welcoming diverse audiences living in or passing through Berlin. It also welcomes cooperations with partner institutions and other research projects.
Founded in 2006 as a private non-profit organization, the ICI Berlin is situated in Prenzlauer Berg on the border to Berlin-Mitte within the Pfefferberg Complex, a former brewery turned into a cultural and social centre. It has several private and public spaces for research, conversation, and exchange, including a research library for staff and fellows, which reflects past and present core projects and facilitates the use of other libraries in Berlin.
Further information can be found across our website https://www.ici-berlin.org.
