2014 World Picture Conference
Dates:7-8 Nov 2014
Locations:ICI Berlin
Friday 7 November, 2014
9.30 - 11.30 (Dying)
Conference Room
Amy Vilarejo (Chair)
Jennifer Johung
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
“Non-life Matters”
Karl Schoonover
University of Warwick
“Dead Stuff”
Elena Gorfinkel
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
“Dead Time, Latent Decay”
12.00 - 1.30 ((Un)Belonging)
ICI Library
Abraham Geil (Chair)
Veronica Fitzpatrick
University of Pittsburgh
“The Also at Work in Every Intended Something: Belief, Belonging, Sound of My Voice, The East”
Brian Price
University of Toronto
“Political Promises”
Jakob Norberg
Duke University
“The Ecstasy of Rejection: Misanthropic Abandonments”
12.00 - 1.30 (Critique)
Conference Room
Alessandra Raengo (Chair)
Michael Lawrence
University of Sussex
“International Relations and Abandoned Children: A Global Affair (1964) and Children of the Damned (1964)”
Munira Khayyat
American University of Cairo
“Abandon, Life, War”
Amy Villarejo
Cornell University
“Television, Critique, and the Intentionless”
4.00 - 5.30 (Subjectlessness)
ICI Library
Rebekah Rutkoff (Chair)
Alice Gavin
University of Sussex
“Forms of Abandon: William Faulkner’s Little Pictures”
Francesco Giusti
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
“Speaking in Between Two Impossible Abandons: The Lyric Double Bind and a Performing (Human) Subject’”
Sam Cooper
University of Sussex
“The Novel after its Abandonment: Stewart Home and Lars Iyer”
Keston Sutherland
University of Sussex
“The Subject of Abandon”
4.00 - 5.30 (Ontology)
Conference Room
Jennifer Johung (Chair)
Seb Franklin
King College London
“Mediated Abandon(ment)”
Peta Hinton (ICI BERLIN) and Xin Liu
Åbo Akademi University
“The Im/possibility of Abandonment in New Materialist Ontologies”
Meghan Sutherland
University of Toronto
“Liberalism and the Logic of Abandon”
5.30 - 7.00 (Ecstatic)
Conference Room
Eugenie Brinkema (Chair)
Abraham Geil
University of Amsterdam
“Abandonment and Necessity”
Karla Oeler
Emory University
“Eisenstein as Prose Stylist”
Amelie Hastie
Amherst College
“And consequently to my love: Reading Film Theory with Abandon”
7.30 (Keynote)
Conference Room
Laurence Rickels
Staatliche Akademie Der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe
“Chow Down: Freud‘s Primal Fantasy and the Lost Loss”
10.00 - 11.30 (Immersion)
Conference Room
Karly-Lynne Scott
Alice Blackhurst
University of Cambridge
“Abandon/Caress/Capture: Chantal Akerman’s Luxuriating in the Image”
Ani Maitra
Colgate University
“Tsai Ming-liang and the ‘Slow Architecture’ of Postcolonial Abandonment”
Simon Ward
Durham University
“States of Abandon”
10.00 - 11.30 (Sublime)
ICI Library
Keston Sutherland (Chair)
Paul Flaig
University of Aberdeen
“Notes on Near Space Photography”
Joseph Perna
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
“Erosion and Eclipse: Three Scenes of Niagara”
William Davis
The Colorado College
“Thing Theory and Friedrich Schelling’s Moment of Abandon”
12.00 - 1.30 (Passolini)
ICI Library
John Paul Ricco (Chair)
Filippo Trentin
ICI Berlin
“Negative Aesthetics: Abandon and Queer Negativity in Pasolini’s Late Work”
John David Rhodes
University of Cambride
“Abjuration”
Manuele Gragnolati and Christoph Holzhey
University of Oxford/ICI Berlin
“Spinoza in the Pigsty”
12.00 - 1.30 (Ontologies)
Conference Room
Sam Cooper (Chair)
Elisa Santucci-Nitis and Maya Nitis
New York University/European Graduate School
“On Sale in Depth and on High”
Martin Blumenthal-Barby
Rice University
“‘Cinematography of Devices’: Harun Farocki’s Eye/Machine Trilogy”
Lisa Åkervall
Bauhaus-University Weimar
“The Abandoned Panopticon: A Post-Cinematic Aesthetics of Control Societies”
3.00 - 5.00 (Libidinal)
ICI Library
Michael Lawrence (Chair)
John Paul Ricco
University of Toronto
“Bare-Backing Bataille: From Sexual to General Economy”
Riccardo Antoniani
University of Padua and the University of Parissorbonne
“Petite Anatomie de l’Abandon: Libidinal Unrestraint and Corporal De-figuration in Hans Bellmer”
Karly-Lynne Scott
North Western University
“Cyberos; or, Orgasms without Bodies: Fantasies Disembodied Sex in Science Fiction”
3.00 - 5.00 (Expression)
Conference Room
Seb Franklin (Chair)
Niels Niessen
University of Toronto
“All Is Grace: Bresson, Godard, Dumont, and the Dardennes”
Byron Suber
Cornell University
“Crying and Not Crying: Abandon in Embodied Techniques”
Kyle Stevens
Brandeis University
“Voice-Over as Abandonment and Containment in Brief Encounter”
Eugenie Brinkema
Massachusettes Institute of Technology
“Rubber: No Reason: Nothing”
5.30 - 7.00 (Attention)
Conference Room
Paul Flaig (Chair)
Rebekah Rutkoff
2014-15 Onassis Foundation Fellow
“Chaos Phaos: Markopoulos and Cinematic Withholding”
Alessandera Raengo
Georgia State University
“Passing Through”
Mal Ahern
Yale University
“To Disentangle the Nets of Being: Projection, Perception, and Paul Sharits”
7.30 (Performance)
Conference Room
Gibson + Recoder
Projection Performance