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System of a Down
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Illinois
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Drukqs
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Sister Outsider
Carries a strong pull into books through power and identity.
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Empire of Signs
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and Western Europe.
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The Night Of
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and power.
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Children of Men
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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The Night Of
2010s
A college student is accused of murder in New York. The criminal justice system from the inside.
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Snow Crash
1990s
Within the Metaverse, Hiro is offered a datafile named Snow Crash by a man named Raven who hints that it is a form of narcotic. Hiro's friend and fellow hacker Da5id views a bitmap image contained in the file which causes his computer to crash and Da5id to suffer brain damage in the real world. This is the future we...
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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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Blue Collar
1970s
Blue Collar is a 1978 American crime drama film directed by Paul Schrader in his directorial debut. Written by Schrader and his brother Leonard, the film stars Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto. The film is both a critique of union practices and an examination of life in a working-class Rust Belt enclave.
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Essays 1980s
Sister Outsider
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's literary and philosophical personae. These essays explore and illuminate the roots of Lorde's intellectual development and her deep-seated and longstanding concerns about ways of increasing empowerment among minority wome...
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Books 1980s
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
A novel of systems, consciousness, split realities, and technological unease.
Music 2000s
Drukqs
Drukqs is a studio album by the British electronic music artist and producer Aphex Twin. It is a double album that includes a variety of contrasting styles, from meticulously programmed beats inspired by jungle and drum and bass, to classical-style, prepared piano, ambient, and electroacoustic pieces. It features th...
Anime 2010s
Parasyte: The Maxim
All of a sudden, they arrived: parasitic aliens that descended upon Earth and quickly infiltrated humanity by burrowing into the brains of vulnerable targets. These insatiable beings acquire full control of their host and are able to morph into a variety of forms in order to feed on unsuspecting prey. Sixteen-year-o...
Film 2000s
Children of Men
Children of Men is a 2006 dystopian action thriller film directed and co-written by Alfonso Cuarón. The screenplay, based on P. D. James' 1992 novel The Children of Men, was credited to five writers, with Clive Owen making uncredited contributions. The film is set in 2027, when two decades of human infertility have...
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Essays 1970s
Empire of Signs
Barthes encounters Japan as a system of signs. Semiotics meets travelogue.