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The Modern Prometheus
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In Colour
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Blackstar
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and after-hours.
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The Arcades Project
Carries a strong pull into books through modernity and migration.

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The Social Contract
Carries a strong pull into books through modernity and migration.
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Akudama Drive
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and urban isolation.
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and memory.
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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
1810s
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a 1818 book by Mary Shelley, linked to United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and English. It keeps the reading field grounded in identifiable authorship and place.
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In Colour
2010s
In Colour is the debut studio album by English producer Jamie xx, released on 29 May 2015 by Young Turks. The album was composed during a five-year period while a member of the indie pop band the xx, starting with his production on xx in 2009. After starting his solo career with the remix album We're New Here (2011)...
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Tekkonkinkreet
2000s
The streets of Treasure Town are said to belong to "The Cats." They know everything that goes on in the city, and no one can stir up trouble without going through them first. In reality, The Cats are a pair of orphan boys called Black and White, who aren’t afraid of anything or anyone. But their rule of the streets...
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The Long Good Friday
1980s
The Long Good Friday is a 1980 British gangster film directed by John Mackenzie from a screenplay by Barrie Keeffe. Starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren, the film, set in London, weaves together events and concerns of the late 1970s, including mid-level political and police corruption and IRA fund-raising. The supp...
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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...
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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...
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...
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...
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Film 2010s
The Great Beauty
A journalist wanders through Rome's aristocratic nightlife seeking meaning. Modern Fellini.
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Essays 1760s
The Social Contract
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains. The philosophical foundation of modern democracy.