We cover an article by man of the peoples’ philosopher Slavoj Žižek, exploring emerging ideas and the landscape of what posthumanism might evolve into via current pop culture touchstones.
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Our take on The Take’s take of the idea of the newest iterations of antihero/heroine characters largely in ‘prestige television.’
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Closing off our exploration of the use of plagues and the like within the pop cultural zeitgeist, TLS looks at three articles from various sources and applies them to a general discussion of past, present, and possible future depictions of the subject at hand.
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We look back to yesteryear in the present pop culture climate at the use of the concept and idea of nostalgia as incorporated into art as well as a marketing tool to sell said art, via these two articles on the topic.
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TLS sinks their Freudian fangs into a discussion on analyzing the prevalence of the vampire myth in pop culture.
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With an idea spawned from a drunken encounter, TLS embarks on a path to discern differences between a narrative’s emotional arcs compared to its logical storyline climaxes, as framed through a range of pop culture works.
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In the second of an improvised trilogy on the clash between narrative and academic works, The Lost Signals discusses Voltaire’s Micromegas.
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The Neophytes tread upon the topic of slasher films and their depiction of sexual and violent situations/characters as framed by a recent study on the matter.
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The Neophytes continue their exploration of unreliability in narrative with a freeform chat.
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The Neophytes finally finish their overview of Joseph Campbell’s A Hero with a Thousand Faces. Now, they must attempt to readjust to normalcy from their heroic journey.
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