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Can't Touch This
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I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Let It Bleed
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Sock Doctrine: What can be done about state-funded political activism?
Carries a strong pull into anime through modernity and identity.
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Can the Subaltern Speak?
Carries a strong pull into anime through power and identity.
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Turtles Can Fly
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Tekkonkinkreet
Carries a strong pull into essays through power and identity.
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Music · Strong bridge
I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
1990s
I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One is the eighth studio album by the American indie rock band Yo La Tengo, released on April 22, 1997, by Matador Records. It was produced by Roger Moutenot and recorded at House of David in Nashville, Tennessee. The album expands the guitar-based pop of its predecessor Electr-O-Pura...
Anime · Strong bridge
Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo
2010s
Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo is a 2012 anime title tied to Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki, Mahiro Maeda, and Masayuki and Japan. It keeps the animated field legible through atmosphere, genre range, and exact-title recall.
Film · Strong bridge
Turtles Can Fly
2000s
Turtles Can Fly is a 2004 film from France, Iran, and Iraq, associated with Bahman Ghobadi. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
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Can the Subaltern Speak?
1980s
Who gets to represent whom? Spivak's foundational question about voice, power, and the limits of Western intellectual rescue.
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Music 1960s
Let It Bleed
Gimme Shelter and You Can't Always Get What You Want. The end of the 1960s in two songs.
Anime 2000s
Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance
Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance is a 2009 anime title tied to Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki, and Shirō Sagisu and Japan. It keeps the animated field legible through atmosphere, genre range, and exact-title recall.
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Film 2010s
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
A dying man is visited by the ghosts of his wife and missing son. Thai jungle mysticism.
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Essays 2010s
The Sock Doctrine: What can be done about state-funded political activism?
The Sock Doctrine: What can be done about state-funded political activism? is a 2014 essay or critical text by Christopher Snowdon, linked to England and United Kingdom and English. It keeps the thought field readable as criticism, argum...
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Music 2000s
Ice Ice Baby / Cant Touch This
Anime 2000s
Tekkonkinkreet
The streets of Treasure Town are said to belong to "The Cats." They know everything that goes on in the city, and no one can stir up trouble without going through them first. In reality, The Cats are a pair of orphan boys called Black and White, who aren’t afraid of anything or anyone. But their rule of the streets...