Skip to main content
Browse

Start from a world,
not a title.

Browse is for structured discovery when you know the kind of mood, place, medium, or corridor you want — but not the exact work. It should feel like opening a current, not scanning a taxonomy page.

Now showing
The Modern Prometheus
15 curated works.
ModernityAfter-hoursLongingMigration
15 works available.

Routes through The Modern Prometheus

15 works selected across all media.

Themes in this selection
ModernityAfter-hoursLonging
Routes through the index
Listening lane
Albums in this field
In Colour
Music
In Colour
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
Blackstar
Music
Blackstar
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and after-hours.
Interpretive layer
Idea lines behind this surface
Bring interpretation forward so the route reads with more clarity, pressure, and argument.
The Arcades Project
Essays
The Arcades Project
Carries a strong pull into books through modernity and migration.
The Social Contract
Essays
The Social Contract
Carries a strong pull into books through modernity and migration.
Cultural geography
Regional constellations
Akudama Drive
Anime
Akudama Drive
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and urban isolation.
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Books
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and memory.
Continue the route
Refine

Narrow by medium, or pivot to a new theme.

Also in the field

Further works the current touches.

📝
Essays 1980s
The Arcades Project
Invasion of the Space Invaders: An Addict's Guide to Battle Tactics, Big Scores and the Best Machines is a 1982 non-fiction book on video games by the British author Martin Amis. The foreword is written by American filmmaker Steven Spielberg, also an arcade game enthusiast. Writing in The Village Voice, U.S. author...
ModernityResistanceIdentityMigration
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Books 1980s
The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 satirical novel by Tom Wolfe. The story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New York City, and centers on three main characters: WASP bond trader Sherman McCoy, Jewish assistant district attorney Larry Kramer, and British expatriate jour...
PowerUrban isolationMemoryMigration
Blackstar
Music 2010s
Blackstar
Blackstar is the twenty-sixth and final studio album by the English musician David Bowie. Released on 8 January 2016, Bowie's 69th birthday, the album was recorded in secret in New York City with his longtime co-producer Tony Visconti and a group of local jazz musicians: Donny McCaslin (saxophone), Jason Lindner (pi...
Urban isolationAfter-hoursLonging
Baccano!
Anime 2000s
Baccano!
During the early 1930s in Chicago, the transcontinental train, Flying Pussyfoot, is starting its legendary journey that will leave a trail of blood all over the country. At the same time in New York, the ambitious scientist Szilard and his unwilling aide Ennis are looking for missing bottles of the immortality elixi...
FolkloreMigrationIdentitySurveillance
🎬
Film 2010s
The Great Beauty
A journalist wanders through Rome's aristocratic nightlife seeking meaning. Modern Fellini.
After-hoursModernityLongingUrban isolation
📝
Essays 1760s
The Social Contract
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains. The philosophical foundation of modern democracy.
ModernityResistanceIdentityMigration