The series The Liberal Script in Critical Perspective is a reflexive engagement with critiques of liberalism - addressing limits, and practices as well as re-entangling it with alternative knowledge archives.. It is not the aim to recalibrate liberalism in order to better respond to global challenges, but rather to think beyond liberalism itself. Given the inherent pervasiveness of liberalism and its modes of knowledge production, this can imply a critical exploration of liberal conscripts, but also mean engaging with de- and postcolonial scholarship, which has addressed liberalism’s limitations and opened up knowledge archives and scripts beyond the liberal script.

By regularly inviting international scholars who address these topics from different angles and disciplines, SCRIPTS engages in an open-ended discussion of the boundaries, critiques and alternatives to the liberal script. Also collaborating with Berlin based cultural Institutions and protagonists known for their takes on reflexive knowledge production, the Critical Perspectives series also opens up for performative and discursive practices beyond academia.