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There There
17 curated works.
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Routes through There There

17 works selected across all media.

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After-hoursLongingMemory
Routes through the index
Page to screen
Screen echoes for this book
Open the book outward through film, television, and animated works carrying adjacent tensions.
When Marnie Was There
Anime
When Marnie Was There
Carries a strong pull into books through folklore and identity.
Welcome to the N.H.K.
Anime
Welcome to the N.H.K.
Carries a strong pull into books through folklore and identity.
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Albums in this field
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Music
IndiEarth Out There, Season 1
Carries a strong pull into books through nature and longing.
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Music
There Is a Balm in Gilead
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
Interpretive layer
Idea lines behind this surface
Bring interpretation forward so the route reads with more clarity, pressure, and argument.
Cruising Utopia
Essays
Cruising Utopia
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Essays
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Carries a strong pull into anime through modernity and identity.
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Books 2000s
The Three-Body Problem
First contact begins during the Cultural Revolution. Hard sci-fi with Chinese political history.
MemoryMigrationFolkloreIdentity
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Music 2010s
There Is a Balm in Gilead
After-hoursLonging
Welcome to the N.H.K.
Anime 2000s
Welcome to the N.H.K.
Twenty-two-year-old college dropout Tatsuhiro Satou has been a hikikomori for almost four years now. In his isolation, he has come to believe in many obscure conspiracy theories, but there is one in particular which he holds unshakable faith in: the theory that the evil conspirator behind his shut-in NEET (Not in Em...
Urban isolationFolkloreIdentitySurveillance
Three Colours: Red
Film 1990s
Three Colours: Red
Three Colours: Red is a 1994 film from France, Poland, and Switzerland, associated with Krzysztof Kieślowski. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
After-hoursMemoryLongingUrban isolation
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Essays 1970s
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. Zen practice for Western readers.
RitualModernityResistanceIdentity
A Tale for the Time Being
Books 2010s
A Tale for the Time Being
In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, she plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace. Across the Pacific a novelist...
PowerMemoryMigrationFolklore