Society and culture

The exorbitant prices of Taylor Swift concerts are yet another example of how the culture industry has become a never-ending cycle of profiteering. Live Nation Entertainment, the industry giant, encourages rate-hiking tactics and faces accusations of monopoly.

The Taylor Swift …

Birth rates are falling almost everywhere in the world. In the medium and long term, experts predict that it will also fall in less affluent countries. This is a problem, but also the result of social emancipation movements. What can …

The skincare trend so prevalent on social media has caught on with under-12s who create their own content by reviewing cosmetics on TikTok.

In recent times, skincare has become almost compulsive: hyaluronic acid serum, Vitamin C, essences, tonics, exfoliants, retinol… …

A website has 10 seconds to load. If it has not done so within this time limit, there isa 123% greater chance that the user will leave the page Tik Tok, the giant that has 1218 million monthly active …

Adultcentrism: the regime of the “adult establishment” The word ‘childhood’ comes from the Latin ‘infantia’. It comes from the prefix “in-” (meaning “not”) and “fari” (meaning “to speak”). The original meaning of the term referred to the period of life …

“You got my heartbeat racing, my body blazing… I feel the rush, addicted to your touch”. Excitement, euphoria, lividity, sweat. Inhibition. Pop artist Troye Sivan portrays the whole maelstrom of sensations in his song “Rush”. The homoerotic character of the …

Digital natives, misnamed by previous generations as the “glass generation”: sensitive to mental health, diversity, care for the planet… Generation Z begins with those born in the mid-1990s as a result of major global changes such as the creation of …

programme ‘Calle Vosté, Parle Vosté’ in 1996. During her intervention, which lasted only a few minutes, Trasobares, a multifaceted artist and queer icon – who would later become Spain’s first trans councillor – challenged established conventions with her unhinged argument. …

The history of Japanese animation is studded with politically committed products. From the very first productions of this kind such as Strength, Women, And the Ways of The World, made by Masaoka Kenzo in the 1930s, to the present …

Despite the worldwide fame of Father Christmas, there are places where other traditions and legends live on. And Father Christmas himself is none other than Saint Nicholas, born in Turkey in 270 and bishop of Mithras.

Christmas is the religious …