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When My Husband Was Imprisoned by the Taliban
Photo by Alexandre Requintel (Version française ici) When My Husband Was Imprisoned by the Taliban by Aleksandra Mostovaja (Copenhagen, Denmark) ON the 7th of January,
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L’esprit Gezi : La possibilité d’une impossibilité
L’esprit Gezi : La possibilité d’une impossibilité (English version here) par David Selim Sayers (Paris, France) par Macha Matalaev (Paris, France – traduction française) NOTE
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
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
KEY WORDS 1: coffee beans, potato chips, peasants, artists
Image: Cafetière, Pablo Picasso (1943) KEY WORDS 1: coffee beans, potato chips, peasants, artists by Emanuel Strandsand (Paris, France) FRENHOFER. I saw the name in
Interminable Aftermath: The Bhopal Gas Tragedy
Image: Follower of Hieronymus Bosch, Christ’s Descent into Hell (16th century) Anindita Mukherjee Interminable Aftermath: The Bhopal Gas Tragedy In “Notes on Trauma and Community,”
Basquiat x Warhol: The Mutual Exploitation Exhibit
Basquiat x Warhol: The Mutual Exploitation Exhibit by Genna Rivieccio (Paris, France) It is the last weekend of the Basquiat x Warhol exhibition at Fondation
No Climate Justice Without Justice for Animals
Image: Percy J. Billinghurst, “An Animal Concert,” from Anecdotes of Animals (1905) Zipporah Weisberg and Carlo Salzani No Climate Justice Without Justice for Animals As
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
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
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
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
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
(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
PICT Ranks #1 Among “Best Paris Podcasts”
The podcasts of the Paris Institute for Critical Thinking (PICT) have taken the #1 spot on FeedSpot’s list of “15 Best Paris Podcasts worth listening
PICT Panel Held at École des Ponts
The PICT panel, “Hope, Fear & Tech: Perspectives on Technology from the Humanities,” took place on Tuesday, 6 December 2022, at the École des Ponts
PICT Conferences: 7th International José Saramago Conference
“Human beings must not be satisfied with the role of observer. They have a responsibility to the world, they have to act, they have to
Unauthorized Freedom: Agamben’s Anarchism à l’épreuve of the Pandemic
Unauthorized Freedom: Agamben’s Anarchism à l’épreuve of the Pandemic by Carlo Salzani (Vienna, Austria) 1. Unauthorized Freedom HIJACKED by the varied and composite galaxy opposing
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
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
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
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
No Map Can Stop the Bats from Crossing the Border
Image from Kitab-ı Bahriye by Piri Reis (first published 1521) No Map Can Stop the Bats from Crossing the Border Interview with David Selim Sayers