The fall of celebrities: buying fake friends
Have we ever questioned how parasocial relationships with media figures affect our daily lives privately, but they also shape popular culture crucially? We tend to believe that the relationships created between fans and celebrities are limited to cases of teenagers (mostly girls) that idolize the new heartbreaker to an extreme, creating erotic scenarios with him. […]
Do not go gentle into that good night
There was a city. It doesn’t matter which one. The sun sets beyond the edifices or the tiny houses. It disappears behind the high mountains, or dips into the cerulean waters of the sea, marking the end of yet another common day for its inhabitants. Every pebble of the city is shrouded under the veil […]
The Early History of B-movies
Picture this: You are little, in the comfort of your family home. It’s a casual Saturday evening and you are watching a movie with your dad. One of those which your mother despises- it is too violent and of dubious aesthetic quality for her liking. Now imagine you are a high school student, recklessly having […]
Treat strangers with kindness
It is claimed that people don’t have time to spare anymore, nor are they willing to show their kindness and benevolence. They claim that in reality treating strangers with kindness is not a thing, it is more like an urban legend. Indeed, the person next to us could be living their life’s biggest drama, and […]
Salonika, Mother of Students!
Sallllonika. The letter “l” may not be the only thing that sticks up to the roof of your mouth for long, as it takes bougatsas with custard, cheese and minced meat, koulouria, the flavours of the Ladadika and the entire city along with it. Salonika is a city that’s beautiful, a city that’s magical, a […]
To see and be seen; the gaze in cinematic narratives
“When you look at somebody they’re also always looking at you. . . Of course, it’s political but it’s also about cinema.”* While I was in the Netherlands as an Erasmus exchange student, I enrolled in some gender studies courses, trying to dig deeper into feminist theory and history. ��Sexuality in contemporary media culture” definitely […]
Are poets still around?
“How fate and time brought about not listening to a poet”, wrote Manos Eleftheriou around the 70s, in his poem “Gilded Words (Malamatenia loyia)”. A poem set to music, an almost throbbing hit for summer concerts, as the audience sings with friends and loved ones. The path is long-winded, overwhelmed with mythology, wars, riots, revolutions, […]
What are your New Year’s resolutions for 2022?
I don’t know about you, but I have to admit that New Year’s resolutions were never my strong point. The truth is that by the first week of January, among questions like “How did the holidays pass so soon?” and “How is it possible to still have food left from New Year’s feast?”, I usually fall into […]
Golden Blood
Sensitive content warning: reference to blood Terms such as ‘hair color’, ‘eye color’, ‘body type’, or ‘height’, bring about different thoughts and connotations in mind. If we take a careful look, though, we realize that there is common ground between them. They constitute characteristics that exist in different forms and make us special. Among them […]
Why can’t we measure Great Britain’s coastline?
Since the dawn of humanity, maths and geometry have been proven to be very useful and critical tools in the process of deciphering the world around us. Many claim that these sciences are “the language of the universe,” and for a good reason: nature is indissolubly linked with mathematical notions, from the simplest examples of […]
