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  1. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    The Unwriting Machine: Medio and the Archive in Mario Bellatin
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    How to write without writing? What is a literary milieu outside of itself? How can we read a writing that proliferates by disappearing? Where does the archive end and the oeuvre begin? This project aims to explore the creative (un)writing process...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  2. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 25.06.2018
    Barthes, Queer Before Queer? A Journey Into Barthes’s Visual Culture
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Barthes’s homosexuality is a well-known fact, and recent biographies have shed light on this major part of his social life. How should the inaugural text of Mythologies (‘The World of Wrestling’) be re-read in light of the fact that he was going to...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and visual studies
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  3. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 18.06.2018
    On and On and On: The Seriality of Serial Killing
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Serial killing is an extremely rare form of homicide that is nonetheless culturally ubiquitous. Much of what makes it so resonant is the very naming of it ‘serial’. The seriality of serial killing – the temporal form of narratives of multiple murder...

    Fields of research Literature and visual studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 12.12.2018