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The Future of Nostalgia
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MAGDALENE
Carries a strong pull into anime through longing and East Asia.
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Music from Saharan Cellphones
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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No Future
Carries a strong pull into anime through identity and migration.
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The Future of Nostalgia
Carries a strong pull into books through memory and South Asia.
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Kino's Journey
Carries a strong pull into books through migration and folklore.
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Yuri!!! on Ice
Carries a strong pull into music through longing and East Asia.
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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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Music from Saharan Cellphones
2010s
Desert guitar and synth music passed via Bluetooth across the Sahara. The future of folk.
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Yuri!!! on Ice
2010s
Reeling from his crushing defeat at the Grand Prix Finale, Yuuri Katsuki, once Japan's most promising figure skater, returns to his family home to assess his options for the future. At age 23, Yuuri's window for success in skating is closing rapidly, and his love of pork cutlets and aptitude for gaining weight are n...
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Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future
1970s
Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future is a 1973 film from Soviet Union, associated with Leonid Gaidai. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
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Books 1960s
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
A bounty hunter retires androids. Empathy, humanity, and the source material for Blade Runner.
Music 2010s
MAGDALENE
Magdalene is the second studio album by English singer-songwriter FKA Twigs. Released on 8 November, 2019, by Young Turks, it is her first project since her EP M3LL155X (2015), and first full-length record since LP1 (2014). The album features a sole guest appearance from American rapper Future. FKA Twigs produced th...
Anime 2000s
Kino's Journey
After running away from the grim future that awaited her back in her home country, a young girl takes upon a new name and identity—inspired by the man who sacrificed his life to help her escape. Alongside her newfound companion, a talking motorcycle, the two find themselves a new home in the forest—where lives an el...
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Essays 2000s
No Future
"In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, which he reads as the linchpin of our universal politics of "reproductive futurism." Edelman argues that the child, understood as innocence in need of protec...
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Music 2010s
Back to the Future
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Anime 2010s
Psycho-Pass
In a future where mental states are measured, a detective questions the system. Dystopian crime thriller.