"Returnal" tells the story of an astronaut Selene Vassos after she crash-lands on Atropos — an alien planet full of hostile creatures. At least it seems so. The game presents itself as a roguelike third-person shooter in ...

The visual culture of the 21st century has reimagined the zombie. The zombie figure has started appearing in every corner of contemporary pop culture, particularly over the last two decades, captivating audiences with ...

This article explores the motif of the haunted house in Alison Rumfitt’s "Tell Me I’m Worthless" and situates the novel among other works that employ the same trope, including Shirley Jackson’s "The Haunting of Hill House" ...

The article explores the contemporary crisis of liberal democracy, framing it within the colonial heritage and ongoing economic dominance of Western countries. It traces the rise of the idea of human rights and free trade, ...

By contrast to the contemporary dominant schools in psychology, Ignace Meyerson’s outlook is situated at the level of culture and brings a historical approach to psychology, thus offering an alternative prism for understanding ...

The paper explores a case study of Stanisław Lem’s short story The Truth, initially published in 1964 (and not translated into English until 2021), which is among his lesser-known works and represents a notable gap in ...

Body horror, which is very often defined as a cinematic subgenre (Cherry 2009, Weismann 2021), utilizes themes of mutation, infection etc. to play on resentment towards human form. Emerging prominently in the 1970s and ...

This article examines Onibaba (1964) and Kuroneko (1968), two films by Kaneto Shindō that explore the destructive aftermath of war within the context of Japanese history and culture. Both films draw heavily on Japanese ...

The text is a review of the book The Philosophy of Pleasure by Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek. The author considers the book from a cultural perspective.

The article explores the Global Brooklyn phenomenon described by Mateusz Halawa and Fabio Parasecoli, as a cultural formation that is transforming urban gastronomic spaces, making them centralized zones of consumer pleasure ...