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Inflation
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16 works selected across all media.
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Unknown Pleasures
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and after-hours.
Music
OK Computer
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and after-hours.
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Arcane
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and East Asia.
Television
The City and the City
Carries a strong pull into books through urban isolation and power.
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Arcane
2020s
Two sisters on opposite sides of a conflict in a steampunk city. Western animation's best series.
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No Longer Human
1940s
A man's confession of his inability to connect. Japan's most famous novel of alienation.
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Music · Strong bridge
OK Computer
1990s
Alienation in the information age. The album that predicted 21st century anxiety.
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Anime · Strong bridge
Serial Experiments Lain
1990s
A landmark anime of networked identity, urban unease, and technological alienation.
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Film 1980s
The Shining
A family winters in an isolated hotel. Madness, isolation, and the Overlook's ghosts.
Television 2010s
The City and the City
The City and the City is a 2018 television series from United Kingdom, shaped by Tom Shankland. It helps the serial catalog read as a real field of seasons, institutions, and recurring pressure. Rooted in United Kingdom. Engages with urban isolation, nature. In the index for the quality of its sustained storytelling.
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Books 1940s
The Plague
A city quarantined by plague. Solidarity, absurdity, and the human response to catastrophe.
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Music 1970s
Unknown Pleasures
Post-punk's defining debut. Isolation, dread, and the pulse of Manchester after dark.
Anime 2000s
Welcome to the N.H.K.
Twenty-two-year-old college dropout Tatsuhiro Satou has been a hikikomori for almost four years now. In his isolation, he has come to believe in many obscure conspiracy theories, but there is one in particular which he holds unshakable faith in: the theory that the evil conspirator behind his shut-in NEET (Not in Em...
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Film 1980s
Blue Velvet
A severed ear discovered in a field opens the door to a suburban underworld.