The Faculty Lounge
Welcome to The Faculty Lounge, the PICT blog where a rotating cast of our faculty members and contributors take on current affairs and pursue their ongoing obsessions as thinkers, researchers, and activists.
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 Opera Ballet, is a dancer of elegant, singing lines and
The Limits of a Paradigm: Agamben, the Yellow Star, and the Nazi Analogy
The Limits of a Paradigm: Agamben, the Yellow Star, and the Nazi Analogy by Carlo Salzani (Vienna, Austria) 1. Uses and Abuses of an Analogy
Petipa and Nureyev in Pandemic Times
Petipa and Nureyev in Pandemic Times by Tatiana Senkevitch (Paris, France) La Bayadère, Act II, Imperial Mariinsky Theatre, 1901 THE artists of the Paris Opera
One Day, We May Dream Greenland
One Day, We May Dream Greenland by Mortaza Behboudi (Uummannaq, Greenland) AS huge icebergs melt dramatically in northern Greenland—even in winter—inhabitants of the world’s largest
Our Own Endemic Madness
Our Own Endemic Madness by Michael Barry (Venice, Italy) IN lurid light of the dispiriting disgrace to our country played out on 6 January 2021