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Life is Beautiful
17 curated works.
After-hoursLongingUrban isolationPower
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Routes through Life is Beautiful

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Books that echo Life is Beautiful
After Dark
Books
After Dark
Carries a strong pull into anime through folklore and identity.
The Battle of Life
Books
The Battle of Life
Carries a strong pull into anime through folklore and identity.
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$ad Boyz 4 Life II
Music
$ad Boyz 4 Life II
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Music
Life Is Amazing
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
Interpretive layer
Idea lines behind this surface
Bring interpretation forward so the route reads with more clarity, pressure, and argument.
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
Essays
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
Carries a strong pull into anime through modernity and identity.
The Practice of Everyday Life
Essays
The Practice of Everyday Life
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and South Asia.
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Essays 1980s
The Practice of Everyday Life
The Practice of Everyday Life is a book by Michel de Certeau that examines the ways in which people individualise mass culture, altering things, from utilitarian objects to street plans to rituals, laws and language, in order to make them their own. It was originally published in French as L'invention du quotidien....
RitualUrban isolationModernityResistance
My So-Called Life
Television 1990s
My So-Called Life
My So-Called Life is an American teen drama television series created by Winnie Holzman and produced by Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz. It aired on ABC from August 25, 1994, to January 26, 1995. Set at the fictional Liberty High School in a fictional suburb near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, called Three Rivers, i...
PowerNatureSurveillanceUrban isolation
The Battle of Life
Books 1840s
The Battle of Life
The Battle of Life is a 1846 book by Charles Dickens, linked to England and English. It keeps the reading field grounded in identifiable authorship and place.
MemoryMigrationFolkloreIdentity
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Music 2010s
This is Life
After-hoursLonging
Aggretsuko
Anime 2010s
Aggretsuko
Red panda Retsuko continues to work at her cyclic office job, with the occasional stress-venting via death metal karaoke on the side. With the company of her newfound friends Gori and Washimi, life is more enjoyable than ever before. But some new shake-ups to her status quo threaten to add more stress to her life. A...
FolkloreIdentitySurveillanceModernity
Life Is a Miracle
Film 2000s
Life Is a Miracle
Life Is a Miracle is a 2004 film from Serbia, France, and Serbia and Montenegro, associated with Emir Kusturica. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata...
After-hoursMemoryLongingUrban isolation