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Self Destruct
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Hospice
Carries a strong pull into film through identity and after-hours.
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Hardwired… to Self-Destruct
Carries a strong pull into television through identity and surveillance.
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Gödel, Escher, Bach
Carries a strong pull into music through identity and power.
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The Bhagavad Gita
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and nature.
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Succession
Carries a strong pull into music through identity and surveillance.
Television
Barry
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and identity.
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Succession
2010s
A media dynasty's children compete for their father's empire. Power, family, and self-destruction.
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Soul Mountain
1990s
A journey through rural China as the self dissolves into landscape, memory, and storytelling. Nobel Prize in Literature, 2000.
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Hardwired… to Self-Destruct
2010s
Hardwired… to Self-Destruct is a 2016 album associated with Metallica and Blackened Recordings. It keeps the music field anchored in recognizable listening lines rather than anonymous album slots.
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Steins;Gate
2010s
A self-proclaimed mad scientist discovers time travel via microwave. Paradoxes and heartbreak.
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Film 2010s
The Master
A WWII veteran falls under the spell of a charismatic cult leader. Power, devotion, and the unmoored self.
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Essays 1970s
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Self-reference, strange loops, and the emergence of meaning. Mathematics, art, and music as mirrors of consciousness.
Television 2010s
Barry
A hitman tries to become an actor in LA. Dark comedy about violence, ambition, and self-deception.
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Books 1930s
Their Eyes Were Watching God
A Black woman's journey to self-discovery in the rural South. Love, language, and the horizon.
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Music 1980s
Remain in Light
Afrobeat meets new wave. Polyrhythmic architecture and the dissolution of the self.
Film 1990s
The Ice Storm
The Ice Storm is a 1997 American drama film directed by Ang Lee and written by James Schamus adapting the 1994 novel The Ice Storm by Rick Moody. During Thanksgiving in 1973, two neighboring suburban families seek escape from their emotional emptiness through infidelity and self-indulgence. The film stars Kevin Klin...