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Aloisi, Alessandra and Giusti, Francesco Introduction
Alessandra Aloisi and Francesco Giusti, Introduction to the symposium Change of Scale: Leopardi and the Measure of Modernity, ICI Berlin, 2 July 2026, video recording, mp4, 06:47 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e260702_1>
2026
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Planetary Solidarity / Cosmic Pessimism: Discussion
Planetary Solidarity / Cosmic Pessimism: Discussion of the symposium Change of Scale: Leopardi and the Measure of Modernity, ICI Berlin, 2 July 2026, video recording, mp4, 01:17:36 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e260702_2>
2026
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Change of Scale: Leopardi and the Measure of Modernity
From the micro to the macro and vice versa, modernity appears to have brought about multiple changes of scale in the way humans measure, map, and make sense of the world. At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Italian poet and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi offered extraordinary insights into these changes of scale and their implications for the modern world. It is no coincidence that sociologist and cultural historian Paul Gilroy identifies Leopardi’s cosmopolitanism as a precursor to the planetary solidarity he advocates in Postcolonial Melancholia (2004), nor that philosopher Eugene Thacker turns to Leopardi, among others, to conceive a cosmic pessimism of a ‘world-without-us’ in Infinite Resignation (2018). Engaging with Leopardi from the perspective of the shifts in scale implied by these and other concepts sheds new light on his work and brings it into dialogue with current debates on spatial, temporal, and social scales.
2026
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Wampole, Christy Forms of Radicality
This lecture explores the rich history and the variety of meanings of radicality, a term that connects roots and left-wing politics. Its etymology leads to the Latin radix or root, inviting associations with origins, anchoring, sustenance, and the subterranean. In the civic realm, the term is often associated with an extreme politics that departs from tradition and moderation. Relying on European examples, this lecture tracks various deployments of the term in politics and philosophy from the 18th century to present and shows the breadth of meanings radicality has acquired through the centuries. Christy Wampole is Professor of French at Princeton University, where she works at the intersection of literature and philosophy, with particular interests in feminism, ecology, and media. Her research spans nineteenth-through twenty-first-century French, Francophone, and Italian literature, with a focus on the novel and the essay. She is the author of Rootedness: The Ramifications of a Metaphor (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and Degenerative Realism: Novel and Nation in 21st-Century France (Columbia University Press, 2020). Her work has also appeared in journals such as MLN, The Modern Language Review, L’Esprit créateur, Small Axe, The French Review, Magazine littéraire, Quaderni del ‘900, and Yale French Studies, as well as in The New York Times and The New Yorker. She is coeditor of The Cambridge History of the American Essay (2024). Federica Di Blasio is a postdoctoral Fellow at ICI Berlin. She is writing a monograph on metaphors of rootedness in Italian modern and contemporary Italian literature. She has published on the ‘rooted’ aesthetics of Cesare Pavese, migration, translation, and geophilosophical representations of the Mediterranean. In Fall 2026, she will join Brown University as Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian Studies.
2026
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Intelligence and Technodiversity
A decade ago, Yuk Hui introduced the concept of cosmotechnics, according to which different cultures have different ways of conceiving of and implementing technology. In later works, he continued to recommend technodiversity as complementary to biodiversity and noodiversity. Today, the rapid development of AI seems headed in the opposite direction. AI is dominated by a small number of companies, in a few locations, and with unequal representation of different languages and imaginaries. Current AI giants, oscillating between modern/capitalist cosmotechnics and new techno-theological eschatologies, are already eroding the noodiversity and biodiversity of the planet. Several initiatives for diverse and counter-colonial AI have emerged, but these face material limitations linked to the concentration of compute and the unequal availability of training data, pointing to deeper economic and geopolitical challenges. At the same time, centralized paradigms in AI development are being challenged by the observation that intelligence emerges from swarms of diverse agents interacting with each other. This raises the question of whether centralization is indeed a technical imperative, or a strategy for concentrating power. Although Hui’s latest book focuses on AI, it does not mention cosmotechnics or technodiversity, leaving the relationship between intelligence and different cosmologies open to interpretation. This symposium will focus on that question, exploring debates on Chinese and Aztec cosmotechnics, artificial wisdom, and the potential of embedding spaces to support non-Western cosmologies.
2026
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Panel 2: 'Post-Digital Matter (in Experimental Publishing)'
Panel 2: ’Post-Digital Matter (in Experimental Publishing)’ of the symposium A Hundred Years of The Future of the Book: Experimental Publishing Today, ICI Berlin, 16 March 2026 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e260316>
2026
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Panel 1: 'The Past-Future of the Book'
Panel 1: ’The Past-Future of the Book’ of the symposium A Hundred Years of The Future of the Book: Experimental Publishing Today, ICI Berlin, 16 March 2026 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e260316>
2026
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Panel 3: ‘Dust’
Panel 3: ‘Dust’ of the conference Minima Formalia: Minor Details and Empty Gestures, ICI Berlin, 20 May 2026 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e260520>
2026
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Panel 2: ‘Drops’
Panel 2: ‘Drops’ of the conference Minima Formalia: Minor Details and Empty Gestures, ICI Berlin, 20 May 2026 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e260520>
2026
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Panel 1: ‘Gaps’
Panel 1: ‘Gaps’ of the conference Minima Formalia: Minor Details and Empty Gestures, ICI Berlin, 20 May 2026 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e260520>
2026
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Discussion
Discussion of panel 2: ’post-digital matter (in experimental publishing)’ of the symposium A Hundred Years of The Future of the Book, ICI Berlin, 16 March 2026, video recording, mp4, 34:33 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e260316_9>
2026
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Adema, Janneke The Prefigurative Temporalities of Experimental Publishing
Janneke Adema, ‘The Prefigurative Temporalities of Experimental Publishing’, talk presented at the panel 2: ’post-digital matter (in experimental publishing)’ of the symposium A Hundred Years of The Future of the Book, ICI Berlin, 16 March 2026, video recording, mp4, 13:40 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e260316_8>
2026
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Hagner, Michael Some News About the Post-digital Photobook
Michael Hagner, ‘Some News About the Post-digital Photobook’, talk presented at the panel 2: ’post-digital matter (in experimental publishing)’ of the symposium A Hundred Years of The Future of the Book, ICI Berlin, 16 March 2026, video recording, mp4, 16:12 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e260316_7>
2026
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Rhyner, Niki Counter Knowledge: Histories and Futures of Experimental Academic Publishing
Niki Rhyner, ‘Counter Knowledge: Histories and Futures of Experimental Academic Publishing’, talk presented at the panel 2: ’post-digital matter (in experimental publishing)’ of the symposium A Hundred Years of The Future of the Book, ICI Berlin, 16 March 2026, video recording, mp4, 13:05 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e260316_6>
2026
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Discussion
Discussion of panel 1: ’the past-future of the book’ of the symposium A Hundred Years of The Future of the Book, ICI Berlin, 16 March 2026, video recording, mp4, 35:25 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e260316_5>
2026
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Partington, Gill Reading Hands Reading
Gill Partington, ‘Reading Hands Reading’, talk presented at the panel 1: ’the past-future of the book’ of the symposium A Hundred Years of The Future of the Book, ICI Berlin, 16 March 2026, video recording, mp4, 16:16 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e260316_4>
2026
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Kim, Jae Kyung Reading the Space
Jae Kyung Kim, ‘Reading the Space’, talk presented at the panel 1: ’the past-future of the book’ of the symposium A Hundred Years of The Future of the Book, ICI Berlin, 16 March 2026, video recording, mp4, 13:13 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e260316_3>
2026
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Helm-Grovas, Nicolas Book, Film, Apparatus, Commentary
Nicolas Helm-Grovas, ‘Book, Film, Apparatus, Commentary’, talk presented at the panel 1: ’the past-future of the book’ of the symposium A Hundred Years of The Future of the Book, ICI Berlin, 16 March 2026, video recording, mp4, 18:50 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e260316_2>
2026
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Stedile Luna, Verónica Introduction
Verónica Stedile Luna, Introduction to the symposium A Hundred Years of The Future of the Book: Experimental Publishing Today, ICI Berlin, 16 March 2026, video recording, mp4, 13:43 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e260316_1>
2026
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A Hundred Years of The Future of the Book: Experimental Publishing Today
There is little doubt, as El Lissitzky argues in The Future of the Book (1926), that ‘an alteration in the structure and mode of language implies a change in the usual appearance of the book’. Conversely, one can argue that the formal structures of the book shape not only physical and intellectual encounters with the object, but also future modes of thought. Drawing on a vision of the future from a hundred years ago, this symposium asks what editorial experimentation can mean in the present and how the processes of book production – design, printing and distribution – influence the interpretation of the world. Drawing on five interrelated aspects articulated in El Lissitzky’s manifesto, the workshop explores (1) the material and political history of printing techniques examining the evolving relationship between materialism and dematerialization in contemporary society, (2) the concept of the book as architecture staging a unique encounter between ‘sound’ (time) and ‘exposure’ (space), (3) the role of writing in editorial experimentation, (4) the differential bodily experiences associated with various printing techniques (e.g. the immediacy of vision in American posters versus the deliberateness of reading in Russian revolutionary poster books), and (5) the modalities of reproduction and circulation.
2026
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Discussion
Discussion of panel 3: ‘dust’ of the conference Minima Formalia, ICI Berlin, 20 May 2026, video recording, mp4, 44:17 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e260520_13>
2026
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Comay, Rebecca When the Dust Settles
Rebecca Comay, ‘When the Dust Settles’, talk presented at the panel 3: ‘dust’ of the conference Minima Formalia, ICI Berlin, 20 May 2026, video recording, mp4, 31:07 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e260520_12>
2026
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Sadr Haghighian, Natascha Composed of Many
Natascha Sadr Haghighian, ‘Composed of Many’, talk presented at the panel 3: ‘dust’ of the conference Minima Formalia, ICI Berlin, 20 May 2026, video recording, mp4, 25:52 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e260520_11>
2026
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Pisapia, Jasmine Introduction
Jasmine Pisapia, Introduction to panel 3: ‘dust’ of the conference Minima Formalia, ICI Berlin, 20 May 2026, video recording, mp4, 06:33 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e260520_10>
2026
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