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✴︎ SocietyWhy Are We So Attracted to Murder Mysteries? Written by Nastassia Tsialpuk Why are we as humans so fascinated with blood-curdling stories of serial killers, and why do we derive a sort of guilty pleasure from indulging in consuming them? What kind of masochistic tendencies make us want to flip through the gruelling details of… Continue reading The Beauty of Gore
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Written by Nia Georgieva This is surely a sentence you’ve heard flying around social media the day of the release of a new body of work by almost every renowned pop star. It is nothing new; people on the internet have been dismissive of popular artists for quite some time now. However, it feels like… Continue reading “I Hate This Album”
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Written by Filipp Beldushkin I am not really well-versed in the pop culture that is popular among Gen Z, even though I am part of it, so please take my analysis with a grain of salt. I believe the Western civilization is undergoing a major institutional and value crisis. The values of Gen Z and… Continue reading On Gen Z, Crises, and Politics in Art
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✴︎ SocietyWritten by Ceylin Dogan I wake most mornings with the sense that time has already escaped me, as though the day has moved several steps ahead before I even open my eyes. The restless drum of my mind, still soft with sleep, begins listing the lectures to attend, deadlines to complete, messages to reply to,… Continue reading The Quiet Resistance to Acceleration
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Written by Larissa Straßer Out of the darkness, out of the cold, a smell of sweet wine and raisins flows towards me. Not because she’s been drinking or baking, that’s just her smell. In other texts, I’ve tried to capture her scent better, because she smells beautiful, but I’ve always just reached similar descriptions. Her… Continue reading Nina or The Visit