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Metal Subculture and Diversity in Music

Everybody with an open mind and love for music of any genre interested in the topic is most welcome and we hope to have a constructive and pleasant conversation. Extreme metal music, especially, primarily black and death metal genres, have established and asserted their position as the music of rebellion against social norms, religion, oppressive society by their musical form, brutal and violent lyrics, as well as genuine dark atmosphere created by specific guitar riffs and drum blast beats. Read the rest
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Consumerism According to Jean Baudrillard

Please join our upcoming zoom event to discuss passages of The System of Objects, a book written in 1961 by the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard. “The system of objects is the embodiment of this systematization of fragility, of ephemerality, of the ever more rapid recurrence of the repetition compulsion; the embodiment of the satisfaction and desillusion; the embodiment of the problematic exorcism of the real conflicts that threaten individual and social relationships”. Read the rest
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Publicité dans l’espace public

La publicité fait partie du quotidien, ses modalités sont rarement remises en question. Et pourtant, la publicité joue un rôle important dans bien des maux qui préoccupent les sociétés contemporaines: la surconsommation et ses conséquences sur l’environnement, la manipulation des opinions politiques ou encore l’homogénéisation des identités culturelles. Read the rest