Social Sciences

Neuroscience is finding what propaganda has long known: nostalgia doesn’t need real memories – an imagined past works too Source: Aeon.co, July 20th, 2020 By Felipe De Brigard * He was still...

Gothic Grotesque: Precursor of Modern Horrors by Prof. Eugene Narrett In the last decades of the 19th century, stimulated by the fantastic and racist mythologies of Helena Blavatsky, by Malthus, Darwin...

Extract from Goth. Identity, Style and Subculture, by Paul Hodkinson.   Citation information as follows: Hodkinson, P. (2002), Goth. Identity, Style and Subculture, Oxford, Berg.   © Paul Hodkinson 2002.   Buy Goth. Identity, Style and Subculture from Amazon     Please note that the following...

Source: The Gothic Library Perhaps more so than the other vocabulary words we’ve discussed thus far (the sublime and the uncanny), “grotesque” is a term you’re just as likely to hear thrown...

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  Originally published on Life Hack In today’s complex and ever changing society, it is almost impossible not to feel anxious and stressed at some point of your life. Stress and...

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Source: Open Culture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpUyJx2RurE When I think of the medieval tavern, I see grim footage from Bergman’s The Seventh Seal and grimy drinking scenes from Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings. While only the first...

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Source: The Guardian, 8 Oct 2020 Helen of Troy, Aphrodite, Medea ... putting women centre stage in an enjoyable, witty look at the ways in which their stories have been...