Ragebait: how the internet learned to profit from human anger
The modern internet increasingly operates not on curiosity or enthusiasm, but on irritation. It’s enough to open a social network — and almost i…
Slang (Сленг)
3 posts in category «Slang (Сленг)»
Who is Homer and where did the phrase "Homeric laughter" come from?
Homer is a legendary ancient Greek poet, considered the author of two of the most famous epic poems of antiquity: the Iliad and the Odyssey. The…
What is kitsch: between bad taste and conscious aesthetics
The term itself comes from the German language (kitsch) and appeared in the 19th century. It referred to cheap, mass-produced works of art that …