Media

In alphabetical order

Here you will find a selection of media appearances by ifk Fellows and the ifk Director in print, audio and multi-media as well as the updated book trailers for our series "ifk lectures & translations" published by Turia + Kant (Vienna/Berlin).The "ifk Materials" and "ifk Parabases" are partly out of print, but available in the ifk library. Please send inquiries to: losenicky@ifk.ac.at.

Talk Recordings

Catherine Raya Polishchuk: The Livability Apparatus. Establishing Vienna as Most Livable in the World

Barely anyone living in Vienna remains unfamiliar with the narrative that the city affords a comfortable lifestyle. Public transportation, cleanliness, and medical care are said to contribute to that liveable life one allegedly has in Vienna. International indexes affirm this image by placing Vienna at the top of the list of most liveable cities worldwide.
Weitere Informationen zu Catherine Raya Polishchuk
2026

Lena Dege-Barron: Windparks in Südmexiko. Auswirkungen auf indigene Kinder und Möglichkeiten einer gerechteren Ausgestaltung

Der südmexikanische Isthmus von Tehuantepec ist ein international bekannter Ort für Windenergieinvestitionen im Zuge des Europäischen Green Deal. Die Region ist aufgrund einer Landenge zwischen dem Golf von Mexiko und dem Pazifik eine der windreichsten weltweit.
Weitere Informationen zu Lena Dege-Barron
2026

Sophie Emilia Seidler: Persephone in the Time of Anorexia. Myth, Psychiatry, and Women’s Writing

More than a century after Freud’s Oedipus, the combination of psychiatry and Greek mythology is not quite common practice. Yet, recent decades have transported the goddesses Persephone and Demeter into modern mental health discourses. Since the 1980s, these myths have been turned into a parable of eating disorders.
Weitere Informationen zu Sophie Emilia Seidler
2026

Peter Gelderloos: From the Margins to the Future. Cultures that can Survive Eco-Apocalypse

We are facing a complex, entangled ecological crisis that is already causing the extinction of countless species and the destruction of habitats all over the world, as well as tens of millions of human deaths every year. With the crisis getting worse at an accelerating rate, there is a growing possibility that our current global civilization may collapse.
Weitere Informationen zu Peter Gelderloos
2026