The Faculty Lounge
Welcome to The Faculty Lounge, the PICT blog where a rotating cast of our faculty members and contributors pursue their ongoing obsessions as thinkers, researchers, and activists.
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)
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
Antonin Artaud’s The Theatre and The Plague: A Film by Wolfgang Pannek
Image: Reha Bliss, “Human Sacrifices” Antonin Artaud’s The Theatre and The Plague: A Film by Wolfgang Pannek by Anton Bonnici (Paris, France) OF all the essays in
Sustainable Classics: Angelin Preljocaj’s Swan Lake Devant la Nature
Sustainable Classics: Angelin Preljocaj’s Swan Lake Devant la Nature by Tatiana Senkevitch (Paris, France) THERE is scarcely a more iconic ballet than Swan Lake. Its main
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
Actuality and Critique in Walter Benjamin
Actuality and Critique in Walter Benjamin by Carlo Salzani (Vienna, Austria) Editors’ Note THIS essay is based on the introduction to Carlo Salzani’s 2021 book,