NEURODRIFT Culture
Culture after the algorithms: books, film, food, cities and taste in an era when recommendation feeds choose for us. What’s worth your attention, and why.
Not a guidebook but an immersion: why Croatia is five different countries in one, how an entire city has lived inside an emperor's palace for seventeen centuries, and what pomalo means. An invitation into a full nine-layer audio guide.
An analytical manual on how adult content is categorized — taxonomy versus folksonomy, Ranganathan's faceted model, Zipf's law, recommendation engines, academic sexology, and trust-and-safety. Why a label is not reality.
A deep-dive into Valerian Pidmohylny's novel «The City» (1928): the two epigraphs as a body↔spirit frame, the French intertexts of the career novel (Duroy, Rastignac), Tarnawsky's ontological reading, sublimation as engine, the gender trap, a character and symbol map — and the cruelest irony of the author's fate.
A curated list of texts with maximum return on inner optics, psychological depth, sensuality, memory, metaphor and rare human experience.
A deep look at what shapes a city's real thickness: density, rhythm, environment, services, streets, people and a sense of life. Why this matters more than a pretty picture, low prices or formal comfort.
A deep dive into which Ukrainian outlets actually work for a foreign audience, and which only pretend to. Strategic takeaways for international stakeholders.
A gastronomic guide to Western and Northern Europe: the most famous dishes, desserts, street food and drinks from France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. What to try — and why.