Creating a public space for education in the humanities and arts, a space for everyone, unregulated by the gatekeepers of traditional higher education.
PICT Manifesto 2021
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Spring 2022 Course Program
All PICT courses are held in person and open to the public regardless of educational background.
PICT Slashes Course Enrollment Fees
When we created the Paris Institute for Critical Thinking (PICT) back in 2018, our dream was a space in which intellectual adventurers of all backgrounds
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 VI
On Wednesday, 8 June 2022, we invite the entire PICT community to the sixth PICT Honorary Lecture: “Critique in Critical Condition–Fascism on the Rise,” a
Review: Trusting the Viewer: Albrecht Dürer at the National Gallery
by Benjamin Devin (London, UK) THE National Gallery exhibition, Dürer’s Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist (November 2021-February 2022), offered a refreshingly sophisticated exploration of Albrecht
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
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
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
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