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East of Eden
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12:08 East of Bucharest
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Eden of the East
Carries a strong pull into television through Kenji Kamiyama and surveillance.
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Laughing Stock
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Spirit of Eden
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Analects
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
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Empire of Signs
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and East Asia.
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Television · Strong bridge
East Africa's Got Talent
2010s
East Africa's Got Talent is a 2019 television series from Kenya, shaped by named creators. It helps the serial catalog read as a real field of seasons, institutions, and recurring pressure. Rooted in Kenya. Engages with nature, surveillance. In the index for the quality of its sustained storytelling.
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Music · Strong bridge
Spirit of Eden
1980s
A synth-pop band invents post-rock. Silence, texture, and the courage to disappear.
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Eden of the East
2000s
On November 22, 2010, Japan was hit by missile strikes, a terrorist act that fortunately did not harm anyone, becoming known as "Careless Monday." Quickly forgotten, society goes on about their lives as normal. During her graduation trip to America three months later, friendly college student Saki Morimi's life is f...
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12:08 East of Bucharest
2000s
A small-town TV host asks whether his city actually revolted during the 1989 revolution — or just showed up after it was over. Porumboiu's deadpan debut.
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Essays 1970s
Empire of Signs
Barthes encounters Japan as a system of signs. Semiotics meets travelogue.
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Television
Eden of the East
Japanese anime television series
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Books 1790s
Dream of the Red Chamber
The decline of a great Chinese family. One of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.
Music 1990s
Laughing Stock
Laughing Stock is the fifth and final studio album by English band Talk Talk, released on 16 September 1991. Following their previous release Spirit of Eden (1988), bassist Paul Webb left the group, which reduced Talk Talk to the duo of singer/multi-instrumentalist Mark Hollis and drummer Lee Harris. Talk Talk then...
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Anime 1980s
Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Two rival admirals, 110 episodes. Space opera as political philosophy.
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Film 2000s
Yi Yi
A Taipei family across three generations. One of the great humanist films of the 21st century.