Overview

• Cixous accepted the 2025 Premio Formentor at Madrid’s Teatro Real, with the jury praising her creative sovereignty and the breadth of disciplines in her prolific body of work.
• She said Israel is self‑destructing by destroying Gaza and claimed the West is “agonizing,” framing the bombardment as an assault on the history of rationality and hope.
• Linking Gaza/Israel and Ukraine/Russia, she described both as desperate wars defined by cruelty and mass death and asked when the killing will end.
• While a pioneer of feminist thought, she rejected militant literature, drawing a line between moral commitment and artistic practice, and warned of a punitive “phalocracy” poised to push back against women’s gains.
• She voiced unease about artificial intelligence as the start of an absolute cultural revolution and contrasted leaders by calling Trump a daily improviser of destruction and Putin an heir to Stalin.