A selfie is a micro-crisis in self-confidence as captured by one’s personal (phone) camera, and posted on various social media platforms, with the purpose of achieving an immediate sense of fulfilment and restoration of one’s self-esteem, by appealing to others’ sense of self-pity, resentment, or irritation. Now, superficially speaking, the liker of a selfie symbolically… Continuă lectura Why We All Love Others’ Selfies
Autor: Adela Toplean
Adela Toplean este doctor în filologie, activează din 2003 în Death Studies cercetând atitudinile contemporane în fața morții, a publicat numeroase studii de sociologia morții în Marea Britanie, Suedia și Germania. A studiat la Universitatea din București, Sorbona (Paris V) și Universitatea din Lund, a fost bursieră a Institutului Suedez și a Colegiului Noua Europă, este membru al Association for the Study of Death and Society. Din 2011 este asistent universitar la Facultatea de Litere a Universității din București.
Dreams
There must be so many cowards hiding behind their dreams! A life full of dreams is just as full and just as empty as a newly freed hotel room: thousands and thousands of absences floating around, filling the corners, thrilling the bed sheets. Everyone‘s in there and no one‘s to be found. “Never give up your dreams!” is a dangerous… Continuă lectura Dreams
What is Truth?
Lies. We live with them. Depending on the occasion, social circumstances and spiritual availabilities, we tolerate them, we ridicule them, we ignore them, we underestimate them, we detest them, we cherish them, we refine them and, if we really must, we fight them. Often than we realize, we take all the above necessary “psychological actions”… Continuă lectura What is Truth?
Season Closed
Long-long time ago, the gentlemen had to hunt the ladies they liked. Not so long ago, the ladies went out and started to hunt for their Mr. Perfect. Today, however, nobody’s hunting anyone. People of both sexes sit and wait. Sometimes, every other weekend, people like to take other people for granted, as they come… Continuă lectura Season Closed
MONKEY-BUSINESS
(To be read by men only) Worthless things seem to gain in value once they enter the area of a woman’s interest. If it’s about the lamest man alive or about a Louis Vuitton replica purse, women love to make the worthless seem praiseworthy and the other way around. Nothing excites her more than making… Continuă lectura MONKEY-BUSINESS
The Fillers
Some people look back over their shoulder in anger, in anguish, in vain. The world is moving ahead, so marvellously wrong and wide, but how were they supposed to know? They drag themselves along the ground, licking the dust off that narrow path back to themselves. They wouldn’t trade their own little „Kingdom of Good… Continuă lectura The Fillers
WHAT FOR WHOM?
Not every missionary has a mission, and for sure not every mission is entrusted to a missionary. Sometimes, a true mission gets lost in the sea of absurd ideals and abandoned hopes, or melts into the boredom of the common guy next door like ice into water. He would never fish it out; he didn’t… Continuă lectura WHAT FOR WHOM?
AS A MATTER OF TASTE
I’ve read an interview with Gianni Vattimo where he said that he would gladly let his kids in the care of someone who has read the same books as he did. I really liked the idea. Why? Well, mostly because everything I know I’ve learned from books. Life has been a terrible teacher to me.… Continuă lectura AS A MATTER OF TASTE
Broken Wisdom
Clever words, sayings, mind blowing, penetrating ideas and sophisms – they circulate everyday on social platforms. They’re un-dignifyingly called „inspirational quotes”. Bits of brilliant knowledge that, for years and centuries, were kept prisoners between the covers of books and magazines, hidden deep in strange, dark places like archives and libraries when no man ever set… Continuă lectura Broken Wisdom
On Idiots (III)
All idiots are actively and enthusiastically idiots. Imbecility is, among other things, a profession de foi. Especially for the educated ones. They all live with the illusion of depth and omnipotence. So they talk loud and a lot. For the most part, they talk sports, nutrition trends, entertainment and sexist subtleties. They also love to exchange inconsistent arguments and re-launch… Continuă lectura On Idiots (III)
