Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
Articles
Why Are There So Many Cute Cats on the Internet? The World is Driven by a Cute-Excellence Syndrome
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein considers why there are so many cute cats on the internet, and how "cute-excellence syndrome" drives our culture.
The Trouble with Excellence
Fundamentalism is the result of secularization, says Olivier Roy.
A Place in the Making
"The events in Ukraine have expanded the meaning of maidan from that of geographical location (just an empty piece of land) to a term with symbolical status: now maidan stands for independence, liberty, and autonomy."
Shades of Cool, Degrees of Kawaii
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein looks at two distant cultural phenomena, African-American cool and Japanese kawaii, and finds a bridge.
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