Pop culture
2026 is the New 2016 : Revival or Denial ?
Stranger Things is on TV in millions of homes, Taylor Swift and Zara Larsson are at the height of their fame, Instagram and its stories are more popular than ever… No, I’m not describing 2016, but rather the beginning of 2026. This feeling of collective déjà vu, shared on social media and in the press, Read more
Why is the video game industry so complex to understand ?
The video game industry has become a juggernaut among cultural industries, but despite its growth and popularity, it remains incredibly difficult to understand Financially, it outpaces music and film combined. The outdated perception of games as a niche hobby for teenage boys has — almost — vanished. People of all ages play. You can find Read more
Board Games Bars: The 3rd place that achieved to combine art and popularity
7 years ago, my sister recommended me to go to a board games bar. By that time, I only knew bars bored me, because you sit, you drink, you try to chat in a noisy environment and cover the blanks of a discussion that are never really blank, paradoxically due to this permanent white noise. Read more
The French animation industry: a visionary tale of craftsmanship and national exception
In March 2025, French-Latvian animation movie Flow managed the impossible: with a team of under twenty animators and in partnership with Paris-based Sacrebleu Studios, made up of less than ten employees, Gints Zimbalodis won the Academy Award for Best Animated Film. This achievement is all the more impressive considering the harsh competition it faced, having Read more
4Memes, Blackness, and the Power of Circulation
This article examines how memes function as powerful cultural tools shaped by Blackness and digital circulation. It explores how meme formats, affective media practices, and online communities reflect collective creativity, cultural labour, and political expression. Drawing on scholars like Aria Dean, the analysis highlights the role of Black cultural production in shaping digital culture, the relational power of circulation, and the impact of memes on identity, visibility, and everyday online life. Read more
TV Series as a Reflection of Daily and Societal Anxieties
For a long time, TV series were perceived as simple entertainment. We watched them to pass the time, relax after a day’s work, or escape from the everyday. Today, this view is increasingly outdated. Some series no longer simply seek to entertain: they disturb, question, and sometimes leave the viewer with a profound sense of Read more
Music streaming: innovation, cultural monitoring, and human-driven solutions
Digital Communities and the Birth of Streaming At the end of the 1990s and the dawn of the 2000s, music became one of the first fields to experiment with digital culture. Whether on forums, sharing sites, or peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms, self-organized and self-regulated communities emerged: uploaders, curators, collectors, and enthusiasts. Even today, these communities persist, Read more
La Haine: what happens when an emblematic movie of the French social divide becomes a musical?
Everyone knows La Haine, Mathieu Kassovitz’s emblematic movie released in 1995, which has become a work of art at the heart of French cultural heritage and the cult reference of French urban culture. The film follows a day in the life of three young men from the suburbs the day after riots, inspired by a real Read more
Super Bowl 2026: Bad Bunny at the Halftime Show, Between Culture and Politics
The Super Bowl: From Sports Game to Cultural Phenomenon The Evolution of the Halftime Show Originally, the Super Bowl was only the final game of the American football championship, organized by the National Football League (NFL), the main professional football league in the United States. After merging in 1970 with the American Football League (AFL), Read more
The Hard Techno music business: how this trend, transforming an undergroundgenre into a commercial phenomenon, has become the reflection of an ultraconnectedgeneration in search of extreme experiences
Credit : Unsplash / @Raw Visual Studio Yesterday, some friends invited me to join them next weekend for a “Hard Techno” party taking place in Paris, called « Welcome Back Devil XXL ». As a big fan of electronic music, I immediately checked out the lineup, but none of the names really rang a bell. Read more