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ICI announcement: twelve fellowships for 2020-2022
Announcement
12 ICI Fellowships 2020-22
Core Project Reduction
https://www.ici-berlin.org/ici-fellowship-announcement-2020-22/
Critical discourse has little patience with reduction. One of its most devastating charges levelled against theories, analyses, and descriptions is that of being reductive or of amounting to a full-blown reductionism. Conceptual frameworks are scolded for being impoverished and descriptions for being too sparse or flat. And conversely, to call something ‘irreducible’ seems to confer an immediate and indisputable dignity to it. Yet the history of science and knowledge in general cannot be told without acknowledging the importance of reductionist programmes, from Stoic physics or mechanistic materialism to cybernetics and structuralism. Reductive paradigms have also periodically revitalized the arts, from neo-classicism to modernist design, from abstraction to minimalist investments or self-imposed arbitrary restrictions and aleatoric principles. Any attempt to reject these programmes will have to contend with their ambiguous effects and paradoxical investments, such as their ability to generate radical innovations, produce understanding, radically enlarge and unify theories, or promote progressive aesthetics and politics even before current ecological fears of mass extinction.
What lies at the root of such different attitudes towards ‘reduction’? How might their tensions be made productive? Or can one embrace forms of reduction that are not in the service of production, allowing for the possibility of a ‘less’ that would no longer have to amount to ‘more’?
The ICI Berlin’s new core project will explore the critical potentials of notions and practices of ‘reduction’, within and across different fields and approaches, from the sciences, technology, and the arts to feminist, queer, and decolonial approaches, inquiring in particular into the transversality of different economies of reduction and production, and into possibilities of escaping them.
Scholars from all disciplines are invited to engage in a joint exploration of ‘Reduction’. We especially welcome applications from individuals who will contribute to diversity and equal opportunity in scholarly research.
The committed exchange between fellows is a central aim of the Institute. Applicants should be interested in a theoretical reflection on the conceptual and intellectual basis of their projects and in discussing it with fellows from other disciplines. In particular, fellows will be expected to participate in the weekly colloquia, bi-weekly informal meetings, and other activities of the Institute, to contribute to a common publication, and to be resident in Berlin for the duration of the fellowship.
The fellowships announced are for the academic years 2020-22 (14 September 2020 – 15 July 2022). There is no age limit, but applicants should have obtained their doctoral degree within ten years of the date of appointment or have submitted their dissertation by the time of application. Stipends range from EUR 1900 to 2100 per month.
Interested applicants should read also the full description of the Reduction project and follow the application instructions.
Application deadline:
19 January 2020 (23:59 CET)
Support AOC
This week, Congress held a hearing on private equity, and AOC wasn’t standing for any of the propaganda the pro-Wall Street folks were trying to peddle.
Over the last few years, private equity has cost the United States at least 590,000 lost jobs from gutting companies like Toys”R”Us, Brookstone, David’s Bridal, and Payless.
Some members of Congress were openly defending these “vulture capitalist” companies like Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital — focusing on the handful of jobs created, and missing the hundreds of thousands of jobs lost.
The winners in all this? Well, they’re not the employees of these companies, that’s for sure. Here’s how private equity works: Wealthy groups or Wall Street companies bid for struggling corporations, and buy them.
Then, they cut costs to make the companies look profitable to other buyers, and try to boost short term profits. How? They slash earned benefits for workers, close stores in lower-performing areas, and force workers to choose between being laid off or having their hours (and subsequent pay) cut down.
Our leaders are supposed to protect people, not profits.
Marie Newman needs to replace Dan Lipinski
A leaked ‘strategy memo’ from Dan Lipinski’s campaign detailed how he is planning on specifically persuading Republicans to vote for him in the 2020 Democratic Primary.
It is outrageous that the DCCC is supporting and protecting an anti-choice, anti-Obamacare, corporate Democrat who is pouring resources into getting Republicans to vote.
With the soul of the Democratic Party at stake in 2020, Lipinski’s strategy is to abandon it entirely and rely on Republican talking points, money, and voters.
Together we can oust a corporate Democrat who is pandering to Republicans instead of fighting for the values of his district. In 2018, primary challenger Marie Newman came within a few thousand votes of defeating Lipinski, and this year, we plan to send her to Congress. But we need you to join us in supporting Marie’s progressive, insurgent campaign:
https://secure.actblue.com/
The DCCC is tipping the scales in Dan Lipinski’s favor despite his failure to fight for working people in his district.
He’s anti-choice, anti-Obamacare, and anti-LGBTQ rights. In this election cycle alone, small-dollar contributions make up less than $12,000 of his fundraising, while he’s taken over $250,000 from corporate PACs. And now Lipinksi is pandering to Republicans in order to try and save his primary campaign and hold onto his seat. Lipinski’s track record is clear: He’s in Congress to defend the establishment, not to fight for our values.
We can elect Marie Newman to Congress where she’ll join the Squad in fighting for bold, transformative legislation that the American people overwhelmingly support.
We need a whole slate of champions to fight for Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, and Free Public College if we’re going to realize our vision of an America that works for all of us, not just the wealthy and well-connected. Help us make that happen by supporting Marie Newman’s primary challenge.
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