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Tweed jackets, black coffee, dead languages; a world where beauty justifies crime and longing becomes deadly. Brilliance, obsession – that is the true birth of dark academia. It all began with a single satiric novel: Donna Tartt’s The Secret History. From a sharp critique of elitist intellectualism, the genre evolved into a shallow internet aesthetic of coffee-stained books and performativity. Retracing the history of dark academia questions why we romanticise intellect, wh

Lèvres rouges, teint pâle, grains de beauté dessinés au crayon, perles et rubans. Aujourd’hui, les modes du « historical dressing » et du costume continuent de faire vivre les codes vestimentaires des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles dans nos imaginaires contemporains. Cependant, plus qu’un simple retour esthétique, il s’agit d’une véritable réinterprétation de codes anciens remis au goût des codes actuels. Les marques du paraître aristocratique d’antan sont transformées en moyen d’ex

Warning: Spoilers of varying degrees ahead for the following movies → Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Godzilla (1954), Psycho (1960), Night of the Living Dead (1968), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), Halloween (1978), Friday the 13th (1980), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Dawn of the Dead (1978), Paranormal Activity (2007), Get Out (2017), Host (2020). There is something strange about horror films. We pay to be scared, terrified, to squirm in our seat