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An Exercise in Self-Sufficiency
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An Exercise in Self-Sufficiency
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Like an Engine
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Reassembling the Social. An introduction to Actor-Network-Theory
Carries a strong pull into television through surveillance and East Asia.
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40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Carries a strong pull into film through memory and South Asia.
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Television · Strong bridge
At the Threshold of an Era
1990s
TVB's millennium-threshold corporate saga — Hong Kong television holding the city through institution, ambition, and generational weight.
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Books · Strong bridge
Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City
1990s
A handover-era Hong Kong written as an imaginary cartography — the city read as a set of speculative maps on the eve of transition.
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An Autumn Afternoon
1960s
An aging widower realizes he must let his daughter marry. Ozu's final film.
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Essays · Strong bridge
Reassembling the Social. An introduction to Actor-Network-Theory
2000s
Reassembling the Social. An introduction to Actor-Network-Theory is a 2005 essay or critical text by Bruno Latour, linked to a wider international field and multiple languages. It keeps the thought field readable as criticism, argument,...
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The Life of an Amorous Man
The Life of an Amorous Man is a 1682 book by Ihara Saikaku, linked to Japan and Japanese. It keeps the reading field grounded in identifiable authorship and place.
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Music 2000s
Teaching an Oakie to Fly
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Film 1990s
An Angel at My Table
The life of Janet Frame: misdiagnosed, institutionalized, and triumphant as a writer.
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Books 2010s
An Era of Darkness
What the British did to India. The costs of colonialism argued with precision and controlled rage.
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Music 2000s
Like an Engine
Film 2000s
40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy
40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy is a 2009 film from United States, associated with Robert Lemelson. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata sh...