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LOL: How Memes Are Shaping Post-Modern Humor

“What is a joke?” you might ask. Bad news, that is the wrong question, at least for a postmodern society. Postmodernity does not deal...

Post-Democracy? It is the economy, stupid.

He just needed a good slogan. He already was this charming gentleman from Arkansas. He had the looks, the confidence and a good political...

The flagellants: suffering, sex and salvation

The spectacle was overwhelming. Groups of several hundred bloodied men stood in circles and whipped themselves on the back with a...

FLUX OF IDENTITY (WHO AM I?)

Paolo Futre was known at some point in his career as the Portuguese Maradona. This is no small compliment and the footballer had some...

Plato, Instagram, Cervantes and Tinder

"I mention Instagram, but it could be TikTok, Tinder, or the platform of the moment—it doesn't matter. What's crucial here is that none...

Kill them all (of rabbits and men)

The reproductive capacity of some species of rabbits is such that, under optimal conditions, about 30 million descendants can emerge from...

THE WORST ALBUM EVER

Okay, you are right, there is nothing such as the worst album in history. But if there were, you would have to seriously consider Niandra...

The voodoo president

Doctors save lives and use medicines. Instead, Papa Doc killed people and prescribed fear and voodoo. If you had been so daring as to...

Wittgenstein and all that nonsense

You know when you are born in an atypical family when your father is one of the richest person in Europe, you are the last of eight...

Dostoyevsky in love (and pain)

Look at her, isn't she gorgeous? Just the kind of delicate beauty that would be attractive even today. She was also young, very young...

The moral dilemma of masturbation

Doctor E.H. Ruddock wrote in 1930 the following text regarding people engaging in "self-pollution": The face is apt to be pale and often...

Freud and the "bad girl" of Hollywood

In 2001, a camcorder with a low-resolution image records a woman in a luxurious store. In her hands she carries about $3,000 worth of...

Nietzsche: The last days before the fall

It had been an extraordinarily rainy summer in Sils-Maria. The mountains were surrounded with water and it was time to move somewhere...

"Ikemeso": Please, make me cry.

It may be a cliché, but for Westerners, Japanese culture remains a cultural Galapagos, a place where the most shocking trends have an...

The sad, sick and ugly king of Spain

It is the year 1661 and the Gazeta de Madrid describes the birth of the future king of Spain, Carlos II, as follows: "...a robust man...

The man who survived two atomic bombs

After three months in Horishima for work reasons, Mitsubishi employee Tsutomu Yamaguchi was finally returning to his family in Nagasaki....

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