Culture - Breshly News https://breshlynews.com Fresh News At Your Fingertip Mon, 21 Jul 2025 00:37:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://breshlynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/cropped-breshly-32x32.png Culture - Breshly News https://breshlynews.com 32 32 Connecting worlds–an interview with Krytyka Polityczna https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/21/connecting-worlds-an-interview-with-krytyka-polityczna/ https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/21/connecting-worlds-an-interview-with-krytyka-polityczna/#respond Mon, 21 Jul 2025 00:37:20 +0000 https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/21/connecting-worlds-an-interview-with-krytyka-polityczna/ Priyanka Hutschenreiter (PH): How is Krytyka Polityczna structured? What kinds of projects has Krytyka Polityczna historically worked on and what kinds of projects are you focusing on today?  Agnieszka Wiśniewska (AW): Krytyka Polityczna now is a network of institutions. We have an overarching institution and inside this institution we have an online daily opinion magazine....

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]]> https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/21/connecting-worlds-an-interview-with-krytyka-polityczna/feed/ 0 A Behind-the-Scenes Tour of NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/20/a-behind-the-scenes-tour-of-nprs-tiny-desk-concert/ https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/20/a-behind-the-scenes-tour-of-nprs-tiny-desk-concert/#respond Sun, 20 Jul 2025 18:36:30 +0000 https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/20/a-behind-the-scenes-tour-of-nprs-tiny-desk-concert/ Back in 2008, Bob Boilen (host of All Songs Con­sid­ered) and NPR music crit­ic Stephen Thomp­son attend­ed a noisy con­cert where they strug­gled to hear Lau­ra Gib­son per­form. Jok­ing­ly, Thomp­son sug­gest­ed that Gib­son per­form at Boilen’s office desk instead. She did. And, with that, the NPR Tiny Desk Con­cert was born. Since then, more than...

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]]> https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/20/a-behind-the-scenes-tour-of-nprs-tiny-desk-concert/feed/ 0 Connecting with audiences beyond algorithms–an interview with Kurziv & Kulturpunkt https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/20/connecting-with-audiences-beyond-algorithms-an-interview-with-kurziv-kulturpunkt/ https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/20/connecting-with-audiences-beyond-algorithms-an-interview-with-kurziv-kulturpunkt/#respond Sun, 20 Jul 2025 12:35:00 +0000 https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/20/connecting-with-audiences-beyond-algorithms-an-interview-with-kurziv-kulturpunkt/ Kurziv is a non-profit cultural organization based in Zagreb, Croatia. It is the umbrella organization housing the community media organization Kulturpunkt. While Kulturpunkt focuses on publishing, Kurziv fosters cultural awareness and social development through the arts locally in Croatia. Priyanka Hutschenreiter (PH): What is Kurziv’s history? What is your main focus? Ivana Pejić (IP): Kurziv...

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]]> https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/20/connecting-with-audiences-beyond-algorithms-an-interview-with-kurziv-kulturpunkt/feed/ 0 Metamodernism: Understanding the Spirit of the Age https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/20/metamodernism-understanding-the-spirit-of-the-age/ https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/20/metamodernism-understanding-the-spirit-of-the-age/#respond Sun, 20 Jul 2025 06:34:04 +0000 https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/20/metamodernism-understanding-the-spirit-of-the-age/ In every era, people live within a particular “mood” or “tone” of culture, a way of looking at the world that shapes how we think, feel, and live. Just as the Renaissance was marked by a spirit of rediscovery, and the Enlightenment by reason and progress, our own age is shaped by what some scholars...

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]]> https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/20/metamodernism-understanding-the-spirit-of-the-age/feed/ 0 What is the controversial ‘princess treatment’ and why is Gen Z obsessed with it? https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/20/what-is-the-controversial-princess-treatment-and-why-is-gen-z-obsessed-with-it/ https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/20/what-is-the-controversial-princess-treatment-and-why-is-gen-z-obsessed-with-it/#respond Sun, 20 Jul 2025 00:32:42 +0000 https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/20/what-is-the-controversial-princess-treatment-and-why-is-gen-z-obsessed-with-it/ With a new Downton Abbey film coming this autumn, and the heroine of Lena Dunham’s new Netflix series, Too Much, fantasising about being courted by a Mr Darcy-style suitor, there’s no denying the current appetite for depictions of old-fashioned, high-society romance. The aforementioned Bridgerton, The Buccaneers and The Gilded Age, not to mention The Crown,...

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]]> https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/20/what-is-the-controversial-princess-treatment-and-why-is-gen-z-obsessed-with-it/feed/ 0 The First Photograph Ever Taken (1826) https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/19/the-first-photograph-ever-taken-1826/ https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/19/the-first-photograph-ever-taken-1826/#respond Sat, 19 Jul 2025 18:32:08 +0000 https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/19/the-first-photograph-ever-taken-1826/ In his­to­ries of ear­ly pho­tog­ra­phy, Louis Daguerre faith­ful­ly appears as one of the fathers of the medi­um. His patent­ed process, the daguerreo­type, in wide use for near­ly twen­ty years in the ear­ly 19th cen­tu­ry, pro­duced so many of the images we asso­ciate with the peri­od, includ­ing famous pho­tographs of Abra­ham Lin­coln, Edgar Allan Poe, Emi­ly...

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]]> https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/19/the-first-photograph-ever-taken-1826/feed/ 0 Reign of terror | Eurozine https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/19/reign-of-terror-eurozine/ https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/19/reign-of-terror-eurozine/#respond Sat, 19 Jul 2025 12:31:08 +0000 https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/19/reign-of-terror-eurozine/ US citizens are living a reign of terror. Trump has ordered US Marines and the National Guard to quell relatively benign street protests in Los Angeles, California, against his crackdown on immigration. No less alarming is the number of government departments and programmes, as well as private institutions, that Trump is in the process of...

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]]> https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/19/reign-of-terror-eurozine/feed/ 0 “Because You Let Me.” The Horror of Speak No Evil, Niceness, and Complacent Men https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/19/because-you-let-me-the-horror-of-speak-no-evil-niceness-and-complacent-men/ https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/19/because-you-let-me-the-horror-of-speak-no-evil-niceness-and-complacent-men/#respond Sat, 19 Jul 2025 06:30:20 +0000 https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/19/because-you-let-me-the-horror-of-speak-no-evil-niceness-and-complacent-men/ Spoiler Alert: This article contains heavy spoilers for Speak No Evil (both the Danish original and the American remake). No animal in the wild suddenly overcome with fear would spend any of its mental energy thinking, “It’s probably nothing.”—Gavin de Becker Shhh… A nice American couple and their daughter, new Londoners weathering loneliness and marital...

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]]> https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/19/because-you-let-me-the-horror-of-speak-no-evil-niceness-and-complacent-men/feed/ 0 Revisit One of the Most Polarizing Albums in Rock History: Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music, Which Came Out 50 Years Ago https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/19/revisit-one-of-the-most-polarizing-albums-in-rock-history-lou-reeds-metal-machine-music-which-came-out-50-years-ago/ https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/19/revisit-one-of-the-most-polarizing-albums-in-rock-history-lou-reeds-metal-machine-music-which-came-out-50-years-ago/#respond Sat, 19 Jul 2025 00:29:03 +0000 https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/19/revisit-one-of-the-most-polarizing-albums-in-rock-history-lou-reeds-metal-machine-music-which-came-out-50-years-ago/ Fifty years ago this month, Lou Reed near­ly destroyed his own career with one dou­ble album. Met­al Machine Music sold 100,000 copies dur­ing the three weeks of sum­mer 1975 between its release and its removal from the mar­ket. More than a few of the many buy­ers who prompt­ly returned it would have been expect­ing some­thing...

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]]> https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/19/revisit-one-of-the-most-polarizing-albums-in-rock-history-lou-reeds-metal-machine-music-which-came-out-50-years-ago/feed/ 0 AI, Media Literacy, and the Next Generation https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/18/ai-media-literacy-and-the-next-generation/ https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/18/ai-media-literacy-and-the-next-generation/#respond Fri, 18 Jul 2025 18:28:03 +0000 https://breshlynews.com/2025/07/18/ai-media-literacy-and-the-next-generation/ Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a distant concept. Although it has existed for decades in various forms – from basic automation to advanced machine learning –, its development has now reached a new frontier. More specifically, in recent years, generative AI, a type of AI that can create original content, has made significant advancements....

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