Culture
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Posted On CultureI just want to be normal!
Agathe was waiting for me at the door. As always, I was running late. While brushing my teeth, I took my bag from my room…
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Posted On CultureThe Fantasy Genre Both Requires and Reinforces Disenchantment
The science fiction genre cannot come into existence until scientific and technological progress has reached a certain point. While we can tell stories of hoverboards,…
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Posted On CultureHow Japanese anime songs became Gen Z’s latest musical obsession
Japanese animation, or anime, has a legacy that stretches back to the early 20th Century, and a creative scope that spans seemingly endless stories and…
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Posted On CultureTomorrow Never Knows: How The Beatles Invented the Future With Studio Magic, Tape Loops & LSD
“Tomorrow Never Dies” couldn’t be made today, and not just because the Beatles already made it in 1966. Marking perhaps the single biggest step in…
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Posted On CultureWhen nourishment leads to starvation
Öland is an ancient island located off the Swedish coast. Protected by UNESCO, it has been home to humans for about 5,000 years and hosts…
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Posted On Culture“Counting Stars” with Aristotle: Why Do I Feel So Right Doing the Wrong Thing?
I will never forget the first time I heard OneRepublic’s hit song “Counting Stars.” I was 15 years old. My taste in music was limited,…
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Posted On CultureThe controversial UK clubs that kept women out
It was during the 19th Century that clubs in London boomed – approximately a dozen existed at the start of the century, and 400 by…
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Posted On CultureThe Invisible Horror of The Shining: How Music Makes Stanley Kubrick’s Iconic Film Even More Terrifying
Inexplicable as it may sound to readers of this site, there are movie-lovers who claim not to enjoy the work of Stanley Kubrick. But even…
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Posted On CultureA day in the life of a bottle collector
A regular Wednesday afternoon at Roskilde Festival’s central refund station. Dealing with hundreds of items for each person, the wait in line usually lasts several…
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Posted On CultureLet’s Talk About Angel Movies (and Hope When All Seems Lost)
Movie angels are a curious bunch. Take that malicious crew in The Prophecy series, jealous combatants in Legion (2010), or the unhelpful cherubim in Constantine…
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Posted On CultureSuperman review: ‘Bursting with geeky weirdness’
Gunn’s most striking idea is to start his story not at the beginning, but somewhere around the middle, as if this were the third or…
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Posted On CultureParadise Lost Explained: How John Milton Wrote His Epic Religious Poem from Satan’s Perspective
“Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again,” Samuel Johnson wrote in the…
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Posted On CultureSeeds of another world | Eurozine
Ever since Donald Trump’s victory in last year’s US presidential election, there has been frantic speculation about what it is the American Right really wants.…
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Posted On CultureMy Life with the Jedi: Innovative Jesuit Perspectives on Star Wars
For a long, long time there has been a desire for Christians (not very Jedi of us, is it) to see in the galaxy of…
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Posted On CultureWhy Alice Cooper saved the Hollywood sign
The exact date the monument went up is contested, but its official centenary was celebrated on 13 July 2023, making it 102 years old this…
