This article analyzes BTS's decision not to submit the album ARIRANG or its tracks for the 69th edition of the Grammys, scheduled for 2027. The gesture came after the Recording Academy announced the category of Best Asian Pop Music Performance, defined by origin or recognition in Asian markets and the significant use of one or more Asian languages. Although presented as an expansion of diversity, the category makes explicit an asymmetry: pop associated with the Anglo-American

he Handmaid’s Tale in 1985, she created one of the most disturbing dystopias in contemporary literature. In Gilead, the United States is transformed into an authoritarian theocracy in which men concentrate political, economic, and religious power, while women are assigned roles determined by gender. Wives manage the household; Marthas serve; Handmaids reproduce. What is most disturbing, however, is not merely the regime’s violence. It is the way that violence is justified.

processes of democratic backsliding have been driven, to a significant extent, by democratically elected governments that exploit legal and constitutional vulnerabilities to weaken checks on the executive and reduce the conditions for genuinely free political competition. Therefore, democratic erosion begins at the ballot box. This does not mean that voting for conservative parties is equivalent to voting against democracy. Such a conclusion would be mistaken and political

Data published by the World Health Organization shows that between 2015 and 2050, the proportion of the world's population over the age of 60 will rise from 12% to 22%. In absolute terms, this corresponds to an increase from nearly 1 billion to more than 2.1 billion individuals. Even more significant is the fact that, since 2020, people over 60 have outnumbered children under five, marking a historic inversion of the age pyramid.

In recent decades, social media has ceased to serve a single function as a space for connection, now operating as true showcases of everyday life. From this perspective, production is framed not only as an exercise or responsibility but as a fixed ideal measured through performance indicators. Increasingly organized experiences—packed schedules, successive academic activities, or lifestyles based on “healthy” ideals—become the foundational signs of online “success,