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Waiting for the Barbarians
12 curated works.
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12 works selected across all media.
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Anime
Maison Ikkoku
Carries a strong pull into essays through identity and modernity.
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Film
The Wailing
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Music
Waiting for the Sun
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Music
Waiting for the Barbarians: Music From the Motion Picture
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Essays
Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and South Asia.
Essays
Decolonising the Mind
Carries a strong pull into film through identity and migration.
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Television · Strong bridge
Waiting for the Sun
television series
Music · Strong bridge
Waiting for the Sun
1960s
Waiting for the Sun is a 1968 album associated with The Doors and Elektra. It keeps the music field anchored in recognizable listening lines rather than anonymous album slots.
Anime · Strong bridge
Maison Ikkoku
1980s
In the town of Clock Hill, there is an old boarding house called Maison Ikkoku. While the residence itself is fairly normal, most of its occupants are not. Yuusaku Godai, its most quiet tenant, has finally reached his limit with his neighbors' constant disruptions and boisterous partying. Wanting a calmer place to c...
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Film · Strong bridge
The Wind Will Carry Us
1990s
A man arrives in a remote Kurdish village to document a dying ritual. Waiting, landscape, and humanity.
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Essays 1990s
Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance
The founding cultural-studies text for reading Hong Kong cinema, architecture, and writing through the logic of disappearance.
Books 2010s
Outline
Rachel Cusk's Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinners and discourse. She goes swimming with an elde...
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Music 2000s
Waiting for the Barbarians
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Film 2010s
The Wailing
A mysterious stranger arrives in a village and a plague of violence begins. Korean horror at its best.
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Essays 1980s
Decolonising the Mind
The politics of language in African literature. Why Ngũgĩ stopped writing in English.
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Film 2000s
2046
A sequel to longing itself. Memory, writing, and the impossibility of return.