The Paris Institute For Critical Thinking

The Paris Institute for Critical Thinking (PICT) is an independent, volunteer-run, non-profit institute with no state or corporate backing. We provide a public space for the humanities and arts, unregulated by the gatekeepers of traditional higher education.

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Events

Andalusian Visions Book Event

On 1 July 2023, a very special PICT book event brought together photographer and filmmaker Cyril Caine, poet Stuart Dischell, and translator and composer Laurent

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Pop Culture

The Truth About Lizzo Hurts

The Truth About Lizzo Hurts by Genna Rivieccio (Paris, France) IT’S something of the Michael Jackson effect. Not just because Lizzo is so beloved, but

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Between Life and Death

Iain MacKenzie Between Life and Death Available to be Poisoned: Toxicity as a Form of Life by Dipali Mathur Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022 In his

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Poetry

Thirty-Three Bullets

Thirty-Three Bullets by Ahmed Arif (Turkish original – Ankara, Turkey)by David Selim Sayers and Evrim Emir-Sayers (English translation – Paris, France) THIS translation is of

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Music

The Borodin Quartet on Tour

The Borodin Quartet on Tour by Valentin Berlinsky (Moscow, Soviet Union – Russian original)by Maria Matalaev (Paris, France – French translation, compilation, editing)by Angela Dickson

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A Cloud in Love

Nazım Hikmet A Cloud in Love[1] English translation by Evrim Emir-Sayers[2] Illustrations by Ambar Velasco “Literature, in all its forms, begins and ends with the

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Interview

How to Déplier Baroque

How to Déplier Baroque Interview with Marina Nordera by Tatiana Senkevitch (Paris, France) WHETHER one thinks of the Baroque as a specific historical period or as an

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Poetry

The Messenger

The Messenger by Heijan (Turkish original – Bağcılar, Turkey)by David Selim Sayers and Evrim Emir-Sayers (English translation – Paris, France) THIS translation is of the

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The Thinking Cap

The Normal and the Phenomenological

Image: Two Figures, Francis Bacon (1953) by Nikolaas Cassidy-Deketelaere (Paris, France) In his introduction to Georges Canguilhem’s The Normal and the Pathological, Michel Foucault makes an observation

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Academia

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

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