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Modern Life vol.2
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The Modern Prometheus
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Masters of Modern Seven
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Gurus of Modern Yoga
Carries a strong pull into books through modernity and migration.
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The Practice of Everyday Life
Carries a strong pull into books through modernity and South Asia.
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Fallen Leaves
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Banana Fish
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Television · Strong bridge
Too Old to Die Young
2010s
Too Old to Die Young is an American crime drama miniseries directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, written by Refn, Ed Brubaker and Halley Gross, and starring Miles Teller and Augusto Aguilera. It premiered on Amazon on June 14, 2019.
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To Live
1990s
One man's life through the upheavals of modern China. Civil war, famine, the Cultural Revolution — endurance as the only story.
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Banana Fish
2010s
Aslan Jade Callenreese, known as Ash Lynx, was a runaway picked off the streets of New York City and raised by the infamous godfather of the mafia, Dino Golzine. Now 17 years old and the boss of his own gang, Ash begins investigating the mysterious "Banana Fish"—the same two words his older brother, Griffin, has mut...
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Fallen Leaves
2020s
Fallen Leaves is a 2023 romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Aki Kaurismäki. It is Kaurismäki's 20th full-length film and a continuation of his Proletariat series, which was originally planned as a trilogy and already includes Shadows in Paradise (1986), Ariel (1988), and The Match Factory Girl (1990)....
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Essays 2010s
Gurus of Modern Yoga
Gurus of Modern Yoga is a 2013 essay or critical text by named creators, linked to a wider international field and multiple languages. It keeps the thought field readable as criticism, argument, and editorial context.
Television 2020s
We Own This City
We Own This City is an American crime drama television miniseries based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton. The miniseries was developed by George Pelecanos and David Simon and directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green. The six-episode series premiered on HBO on April 25, 2022.
Books 1990s
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach is a 1995 book by Stuart J. Russell and Peter Norvig, linked to a wider international field and English. It keeps the reading field grounded in identifiable authorship and place.
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Music 2000s
Masters of Modern Seven
Anime 2020s
Akudama Drive
The bustling metropolis of Kansai, where cybernetic screens litter the neon landscape, may seem like a technological utopia at first glance. But in the dark alleys around the brightly-lit buildings, an unforgiving criminal underbelly still exists in the form of fugitives known as "Akudama." No stranger to these indi...
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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....