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PICT Manifesto 2021
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PICT in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
On Wednesday, 18 May 2022, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), a leading German daily newspaper, featured an article devoted to the PICT publication, “The Real
PICT Honorary Lectures V: The Shadow of Kant: Reconsidering the Modern Self
The fifth PICT Honorary Lecture, and the first post-pandemic PICT public event, took place on Tuesday, 19 April, at the Goethe Institut Paris. Delivered by
(French) Theory: An Anti-American American Invention
François Cusset (French) Theory: An Anti-American American Invention If French Theory is American, it is so in the sense of being an errant concept, caught
Pointing Beyond: Agamben and the Animal
Image: The Dream, Henri Rousseau (1910) Pointing Beyond: Agamben and the Animal by Carlo Salzani (Vienna, Austria) Editors’ Note THIS essay is based on the
Gender, Sex, and Printing Press in Ottoman Constantinople
Image from Hançerli Hikaye-i Garibesi (1851-52) Gender, Sex, and Printing Press in Ottoman Constantinople by David Selim Sayers (Paris, France) EVER since learning Ottoman Turkish nearly
PICT Aegean Summer School 2022
It was our great pleasure and privilege to hold the first ever PICT Aegean Summer School in the Turkish coastal town of Ayvalik from 20
PICT Honorary Lectures VI: Critique in Critical Condition—Fascism on the Rise
The sixth installment in the PICT Honorary Lectures series was held on Wednesday, 8 June, at the Mairie de Paris Centre – Site Marais. Delivered
The Real Academy in Exile (Censored)
Image: Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus, J. M. W. Turner (1829) The Real Academy in Exile (Censored) by David Selim Sayers (Paris, France)1 For Talât Halman Sansürün çıkardığı
Yet So As By Fire: A Passion Play in Two Acts
Image: Saint Francis in Ecstasy, El Greco (ca. 1577-1580) Yet So As By Fire: A Passion Play in Two Acts by Anton Bonnici (Paris, France)
Wolfgang’s Wager: Thinking Crisis with Wolfgang Streeck
On 26 April 2022, the PICT Student Ambassadors staged their second live online discussion, welcoming the German economic sociologist Wolfgang Streeck. The event was convened
PICT Co-organizes Saramago Conference
PICT will co-organize the VII International José Saramago Conference, to be held from 26 to 29 October 2022 at the University of Vigo. The conference,
We Are Here to Dance and to Keep Life Going
We Are Here to Dance and to Keep Life Going Interview with Ludmila Pagliero by Tatiana Senkevitch (Paris, France) LUDMILA Pagliero, étoile of the Paris
Review: Giacometti and Beckett: Between Failure and Theatricality
by Maureen Winter (Paris, France) The Giacometti Foundation’s current exhibition, “Giacometti/Beckett – Rater encore. Rater mieux” (January 9th-June 8th, 2021), pairs the celebrated sculptor’s post-surrealist works