The critical review
dePICTions
dePICTions breathes new life into the French tradition of the critical review. Based in Paris and inspired by the city’s intellectual currents, yet published in English as the world’s scholarly lingua franca, this new critical review translates a distinctly French approach for an international audience.
2024
dePICTions, volume 4
A Birth, Maybe?
Airport Thoughts
An Algorithmic Perpetrator
Animals as Victims
Editorial Note IV
On the Crisis of (White) Masculinity
Seductive Yet Destructive
Socrates and Alyosha Karamazov
That’s how it goes, Laz Ismail
The Victim’s Perspective
Victim of Abuse, Violence, or Harm?
Victimhood, Isēgoria, and Parrēsia
Victims of Human Vanity
2023
dePICTions, volume 3
A Cloud in Love
Between Life and Death
Cascading Opportunities for Propertied Wildlife
Chasing Odysseus Through Deep Time: Contextualizing Climate Change
Critical Tools for the Animal Crisis
Ecoperformance: Depictions of Possible Futures for the Performing Arts
Editorial Note III
How Politics Shaped Ecology: A Conceptual Look at a Science of Relationships
Interminable Aftermath: The Bhopal Gas Tragedy
No Climate Justice Without Justice for Animals
Pigeons, Pigs, and the Optimism of Reason
The Animal Speaks
Unveiling Progress as Parasite, or Replacing "Renewable" Energies with Ecological Ethics
2022
dePICTions, volume 2
Volume
2
U.S. vs. … (Un-)American Crossings and Appropriations
8 articles · 2022 · Read online
Open the volume: dePICTions, volume 2Albanian Softshoe: Addressing American Issues via the Most Anti-American Country
American French-ness: The American Appropriation of Contemporary French Philosophy
Beyond Appropriation: Art Tatum Taps into Infinity
(French) Theory: An Anti-American American Invention
Sigmund Freud’s America
The World Stops When You Find Yourself Engrossed in Another Person’s Story
Towards an Architectural Theology: An Appropriation of Thought Between Tillich and Mies
Editorial Note II
2021
dePICTions, volume 1
Challenging Our Fatalistic Addiction to Safety
Coronavirus, Epidemiology, and the Myth of the Primacy of Will over Matter
COVID-19 and State of Exception: Medicine, Politics, and the Epidemic State
Sick in the City
The Gentle Art of Making “Un-Decisions”
Wallace Fountains: A Model for Post-Pandemic Action
What’s the Point of Critique, Today?
As Filmmakers, We Strive to Dissolve Borders
Editorial Note I