Subculture does not ask for permission before it starts shaping you, as it simply operates rather like neural rewriting than conscious choice. It arrives and embeds itself through repetition, whether it is sound, language, or gesture. However, where does that shift actually happen? At what point does subculture classify as a part of our identity that is rooted within the brain? But the thought that interests me most is not whether this influence exists, just when it stops being influenced and...

There is no denying that “why art speaks when words fail” is not a poetic exaggeration, but a universal truth. Language may feel insufficient and unable to capture the whole weight of what we feel. How is it even possible that words which are something we rely on constantly, can suddenly seem so inadequate when our emotions run deep? Why do words feel too rigid, too narrow, or too limited to fully capture what we are enduring? For instance, grief does not arrive in neat sentences, the same...

It is inevitable that our century is defined by the scroll. Phones rarely leave our hands, social media quietly exists in the background of almost every moment of our lives. We already know this. We acknowledge the fact that we spend too much time online, even that scrolling on TikTok or Instagram, especially before bed, is perhaps not good for us. These facts are familiar due to the fact that we talk about them openly, sometimes even joke about them. However, we still continue to scroll,...