Collected Works in Contemporary Art and Literature
Author: Dritan Kiçi
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Ghayath Almadhoun: Europe, we love your art and hate your bombs
A furious, unrelenting poetry of rupture—Almadhoun’s verses indict, mourn, and resist with devastating force.
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Eurovision: Where Nations Compete for the Right to Be Confused
Eurovision is what happens when musical theater and international diplomacy get drunk at the same wedding—messy, performative, and dazzlingly absurd.
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The Three Xs of a Great Story: Extraordinary, Exclusive, Extendable
Three Xs Framework—Extraordinary, Exclusive, and Extendable. A practical method for evaluating why some stories endure in cultural memory, while others, no matter how lyrical, fade fast.
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Why the Green Transition Is Already Lost
A searing critique of the Green Transition’s failure—not in policy, but in metaphor, language, and imagination.
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On the Essay I Want to Read
“Essays aren’t lectures. They’re conversations with dead philosophers and living doubts. You’re not leading the reader out of Plato’s cave—you’re sitting beside them, throwing shadows on the wall, wondering which ones look familiar.”
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The First Person: Voice of the Inexperienced and the Narcissist
“The self becomes the measure of the universe, to the detriment of literary depth… Literature ceases to be a vessel for empathy and becomes a stage for self-confirmation.”