True crime: Consumerism of Crime
How the commercialisation and narrative glamorisation of violent atrocities contribute to the ethical corruption and hybristophilia of true crime consumers? The genre of books, movies, and podcasts that we recognise as true crime has established itself within pop culture as a product that provides a graphic description of true crime stories for the consumer. The […]
Is 29 the end?
How is your life plan going? Have you ensured and, most importantly, decided who you will be, where you will be and what your occupation will be by the time you’re 30? If not, how much time do you have left? If you stressed out with the above questions, then congratulations, you experience the daily […]
Activism and Social Media: A love-hate relationship
#PrayForUkraine, #BlackLivesMatter, #StopAsianHate, #MeToo… Someone, somewhere, once made a post or a story on Instagram that contained at least one of these hashtags. And right after that, this specific person put aside his cellphone and continued to live in a carefree way. If we wanted to put a label on this “phenomenon”, this would be […]
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 […]
Chapter travelling
“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page,” the Japanese philosopher Saint Augustine once said. Yes, the world is indeed a book. A multi-page book with 5 major sections, the continents, which are divided into about 230 subsections, the countries, which in turn are divided into dozens of […]
Act like a girl
This text is for you. For you who are a mother, grandmother, daughter, granddaughter, sister, cousin, aunt, niece. For you who are a wife, a partner and a friend. For you who was born as or feels like a woman. For you who are a woman. Yes, for you who are a woman and along […]
“Sloth is the key to poverty”: The paradox of toxic productivity
The term “toxic productivity”, although not a scientific term, is often used to denote the tendency of some people to be overcome by guilt or anxiety, when they feel like they are not productive. Think about this: The year is 2020, a strange virus pops up out of nowhere in an unknown city in China, […]
Diplomacy, ping pong and gift exchanges
How did two ping pong players manage to definitively change their countries’ diplomatic relations by exchanging gifts? War chaos, ideological rivalries, and a universal suspicion painted the canvas of the 1970s. Against this warlike current marched two champions in 1971 during the World Ping Pong Championship in Nagoya, Japan, which constituted fertile ground for bridging […]
“I wish you were here” the stages of grief to our conciliation with bereavement
“Certainly not; it cannot be happening to me…I do not believe it… it is unfair… if I had… maybe things would be different…”, phrases that we have thought, we have shouted, we have sung “Wish You Were Here” (Pink Floyd) for those that are no longer with us, for those who we unbearably miss, for […]