Unless you live on another planet, you must have seen those infinite and so repetitive videos on social media showing people doing “funny” things: unbearable TikTok challenges, stupid dancing videos, and boring covers from has-beens trying to regain popularity. This has to stop. Being “funny”, or at least trying, can […]
Being locked-down is not easy, and something really important is missing at home -other than flour, pasta and rice. Sex. We miss sex. OK, maybe some of us were single before the lockdown, but Tinder and Grindr could give us some one-night-affairs, which could be quite enjoyable. Now it’s over, […]
When French theorist Guy Debord wrote The Society of the Spectacle in 1967, the world was quite different from now. Of course. Social media didn’t exist, neither the Internet, and television was still very new for many people. However, the Marxist writer was already depicting a deep, fundamental movement: a […]
We thought it was an old story. At least, in the Western world. 1789 was quite a while ago, the Paris Commune took place in 1871 (and lasted only a few months), and the communist era ended in 1990, showing to the world how democracy was, clearly, the least imperfect […]
Maybe it’s not the end of time -yet- but a vast majority of us have probably considered that possibility recently. A total collapse. Economically, ecologically, politically. People are dying, people are suffering, people are loosing their jobs, and even for the most privileged ones, the future doesn’t look great. The […]