by Editor | Mar 30, 2022
What do we see? On November 8, 2011, the front page of the weekly Charlie Hebdo showed a cartoon, captioned “Love is stronger than hate” by cartoonist Luz (pseudonym of Renald Luzier). The image was published a week after a fire-bomb attack by radical Muslim...
by Editor | Jan 13, 2022
Foreign Myths about Lithuania “What do we see here?” This is a video that builds a pseudo-coherent narrative from misleading myths, beliefs, historical facts, famous phrases, rumours and interpretations related to Lithuania. This is also a visual response to an...
by Editor | Jan 7, 2022
What do we see? The cartoon shows the current Slovenian Minister of the Environment Andrej Vizjak squeezing the testicles of a judge (“sodnik” is the word for ‘judge’ in Slovenian). The cartoon is by Marko Kočevar and first published in the Slovenian daily Delo, on 5...
by Editor | Jan 7, 2022
What do we see? This is a promotional photo for Cesar dog food, which appeared internationally in 2006 that echoed the widely held stereotype and assumptions about the similarity of pets to their owners. The photo became a meme (not only in Slovenia) in which the...
by Editor | Jan 7, 2022
Meme (1): Afghan migrants outside the tax office waiting to get a TIN for their investment Meme (2): Shortly in Omonoia Square [i.e. a central square in Athens]! What do we see here? In meme (1), a photo of quarrelling people (perhaps of Asian descent) is transformed...
