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What's Going On
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Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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(What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Sock Doctrine: What can be done about state-funded political activism?
Carries a strong pull into books through power and South Asia.
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On Photography
Carries a strong pull into books through power and memory.
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The Leftovers
Carries a strong pull into books through power and surveillance.
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What We Do in the Shadows
Carries a strong pull into books through memory and urban isolation.
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The Leftovers
2010s
Two percent of the world's population vanishes. What happens to those who remain.
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What Katy Did
1870s
What Katy Did is a 1872 book by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, linked to United States and English. It keeps the reading field grounded in identifiable authorship and place.
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Only Yesterday
1990s
Aoba Riku has just transferred to a new high school because of his father's job, and things aren't quite what he expected. The headmaster's secretary controls the school while espousing the virtues of academic freedom, the teachers are even stranger than normal teachers, and half the student body is walking around w...
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2000s
A robot child is programmed to love his human mother — who abandons him. Spielberg completes Kubrick's fairy tale about what it means to be real.
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Essays 1970s
On Photography
How photographs change what we see, remember, and believe. Image culture's sharpest critic.
Books 2010s
Bleeding Edge
New York City, 2001. Fraud investigator Maxine Tarnow starts looking into the finances of a computer-security firm and its billionaire geek CEO and discovers there's no shortage of swindlers looking to grab a piece of what's left of the tech bubble.
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Music 1990s
(What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Wonderwall and Don't Look Back in Anger. Britpop's biggest album from Manchester.
Film 2010s
What We Do in the Shadows
What We Do in the Shadows is a 2014 film from New Zealand, associated with Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement. 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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Essays 2010s
The Sock Doctrine: What can be done about state-funded political activism?
The Sock Doctrine: What can be done about state-funded political activism? is a 2014 essay or critical text by Christopher Snowdon, linked to England and United Kingdom and English. It keeps the thought field readable as criticism, argum...
Music 2000s
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not is a 2006 album associated with Arctic Monkeys and Domino Recording Company. It keeps the music field anchored in recognizable listening lines rather than anonymous album slots.