My little i
From Capital Selfhood to Diminutive Life
Workshop 27 May 2025, 15 00 – 18:30, ICI Berlin
With
Jack Halberstam
and Filippo Bosco, Franco Costantini, Line Dahler-Eriksen, Nicolas Helm-Grovas, Manuele Gragnolati, Carlos Kong, Ewa Majewska, Robert Meunier, Maria Nadia Nour, José Segebre, Angelica Stathopoulos.
Organized by
Angelica Stathopoulos
The original meaning of subjectivity is to submit, akin to ‘lying under’ or ‘below’. Even though the Latin heritage of subjectivity involves a bottom perspective, a gaze from below, the subject in a modern understanding claims its self by way of the upper cases. The subject is marked by the big I, everyone else by small letters. This workshop returns to the pathetic heritage of subjectivity to forefront its diminutive aspects. Beyond heroic acts of mastery, the little i narrates its existence by way of everyday experiences of passivity, failure, and diminution and their foreclosed teleologies. This workshop is inspired by marginalized philosophies and epistemologies such as those developed in queer theory, Black studies, and crip theory. It invites to reimagine everyday small-scale phenomena, which not only challenge the common understanding of big life, but also allow to dream up a diminutive existence where the i is small so that the other can live large.
