Aleks Eror
the internet
This Dumb New App Lets You Pay People to Eat Maggots
On Eristica, viewers can use cryptocurrency to pay "daredevils" to do stupid shit.
Aleks Eror
1.31.18
Internet Videos Of Particular Importance
Making Sense of the Strange YouTube Unboxing Trend
Philosopher Jean Baudrillard can help us understand this odd online phenomenon.
Aleks Eror
11.23.17
Fashion
The Rise Of the Anti-Beauty Aesthetic
In a world of easy-to-access beauty, sometimes ugliness is the only way to stand out. We chart the aesthetic of ugliness from German expressionism to hardcore punk to the rise of Vetements.
Aleks Eror
7.11.17
Football
The Serbian Warlord Who Led His Club to the Champions League
Serbian warlord Željko "Arkan" Ražnatović led FK Obilic from the second tier to the domestic title and a place in the Champions League qualifying rounds. But their story was never going to end happily.
Aleks Eror
1.13.16
transgender
How a Homophobic Country Became a Go-To Spot for Gender Reassignment Surgery
Serbia's cheap medical tourism industry has attracted trans people from across the world—but local trans people find themselves left out in the cold.
Aleks Eror
1.5.16
anti-competitive practices
How Football Explains Capitalism
As football becomes increasingly corporatised, certain phenomena in the game begin to reflect some of the fundamental functions and theories of our planet's dominant economic system
Aleks Eror
10.8.15
News
In Defense of Economic Migrants
You should be allowed to flee poverty as well as war.
Aleks Eror
9.15.15
Stuff
Knee Deep In the Balkan Floods, Climate Change Finally Feels Real
It took the natural disaster to make me really care.
Aleks Eror
5.24.14
The Fashion Issue 2014
Scally Lads Are Gay Brits Who Like to Smell Stinky Socks and Have Sex in Tracksuits
One guy who tried to cruise me requested that I don’t shower for a week before our meet, telling me that he loves “stinky socks” and a “cheesy cock” because it’s “fucking manly."
Aleks Eror
Aleks Eror, Photos by Gaz (picsbygaz.com), Courtesy
Aleks Eror, Photos by Gaz
3.17.14
News
Speaking to Mandela Mourners Outside London's South Africa House
There was a Scottish guy playing bagpipes and another who was going to camp out indefinitely.
Aleks Eror
12.6.13
NSFW
I Went to Porn School and It Was a Disaster
Some of the people who show up to Porn Weekender are aspiring porn-industry professionals; others are simply people for whom the experience of sitting at home watching porn is too lonely, remote, or unfulfilling.
Aleks Eror
Aleks Eror, Photos: Isabelle Andarakis
11.4.13
Stuff
'Yomango' Is Barcelona's Ideological Shoplifting Movement
The world's economy is still fucked. And ever since the West went into an economic meltdown in 2008, anticonsumerist sentiment has been steadily on the rise. While proletariats in the US have largely settled for memories of Zuccotti, the Catalan civil...
Aleks Eror
4.26.13
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