Welcome to dePICTions volume 4 (2024): Victimhood.
Editorial Note IV
dePICTions volume 4 (2024): Victimhood Editorial Note Victimhood is a common response to trauma. It entails not only a negative experience or a harmful event, but also
Seductive Yet Destructive
Image from Magic: Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, including Trick Photography, compiled and edited by Albert A. Hopkins (1897) Seductive Yet Destructive: An Attempt at
The Victim’s Perspective
Image: “Salle d’audience du tribunal de Senlis” by Thomas Couture (ca. 1860-1869) The Victim’s Perspective: How Thinking About the Victim Can Provide Answers to Philosophical
Socrates and Alyosha Karamazov
Image: “The Road by Gadshill – Prince Henry, Poins, Peto, Falstaff, etc.” by Samuel Middiman after Robert Smirke (ca. 1803) Socrates and Alyosha Karamazov: Victimhood
Victim of Abuse, Violence, or Harm?
Image: “Salome met het hoofd van Johannes de Doper” by Jacob Neefs (1632) Victim of Abuse, Violence, or Harm? Naming Gender-Based Violence in French and
On the Crisis of (White) Masculinity
Image: “A Bantam,” from Shadows by Charles Bennett (ca. 1856) On the Crisis of (White) Masculinity: Victimization Discourse and Transformations in Racialized Forms of Gender
Victimhood, Isēgoria, and Parrēsia
Image: “The Yellow Press” by L. M. Glackens (1910) Victimhood, Isēgoria, and Parrēsia: Michel Foucault and US Conservatives Andrea Di Carlo Isēgoria (freedom of speech)
An Algorithmic Perpetrator
Image: “The March of Intellect” by Robert Seymour (ca. 1828) An Algorithmic Perpetrator, or Why We Need to Acknowledge the Many Things We Do Not
Animals as Victims
Image from an Egyptian manuscript of Kalīlah wa-Dimnah by Ibn al-Muqaffaʻ (ca. 1310) Animals as Victims Carlo Salzani and Zipporah Weisberg Animals are nothing if
Victims of Human Vanity
Victims of Human Vanity: Fashion and the Exploitation of Animals Review by Carlo Salzani Victims of Fashion: Animal Commodities in Victorian Britain by Helene Louise
A Birth, Maybe?
Image from The School of the Heart by George Withermage (1676) A Birth, Maybe? Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh a short story He is curly burly, joyful and
Airport Thoughts
Image from Weird Islands by Jean de Bosschère (1921) Airport Thoughts Elena Gabor a poem Comfortable shoes, hoodies, earbuds,Peoplewatching with prolonged, impolite gazes.What journeys are
That’s how it goes, Laz Ismail
That’s how it goes, Laz Ismail Nazım Hikmet a poem Translated by Evrim Emir-Sayers and David Selim Sayers I’m inside the rising lightMy hands voracious,