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World Inverted
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Oh, Inverted World
Carries a strong pull into film through power and after-hours.
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Inverted World
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Illness as Metaphor
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and South Asia.
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Ghost World
Carries a strong pull into music through power and after-hours.
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Foundations of Real-World Economics
Carries a strong pull into film through folklore and South Asia.
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Beautiful World
2019 South Korean television series
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
2020s
Three friends and a hanger-on gradually coalesce into two couples.
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Oh, Inverted World
2000s
New Slang and the sound of early 2000s indie. Garden State's most consequential soundtrack.
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Ghost World
2000s
Ghost World is a 2001 black comedy film co-written and directed by Terry Zwigoff. Based on the 1990s comic book of the same name by Daniel Clowes, the story focuses on the lives of teenage outsiders Enid and Rebecca, who face a rift in their friendship as Enid takes an interest in an older man named Seymour, and bec...
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Essays 1970s
Illness as Metaphor
In 1978, while recovering from cancer, Susan Sontag wrote Illness as metaphor, the celebrated essay on the invented and often punitive uses of illness in our culture. It was not surprising that a decade later, after the advent of AIDS, Sontag felt compelled to write a sequel that would counter the almost universal l...
Books 2010s
Foundations of Real-World Economics
Foundations of Real-World Economics is a 2019 book by John Komlos, linked to a wider international field and multiple languages. It keeps the reading field grounded in identifiable authorship and place.
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Film 1950s
The World of Apu
Apu as a young man navigates love, loss, and fatherhood. The trilogy's devastating conclusion.
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Ghost World
graphic novel by Daniel Clowes
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Music 2020s
World Inverted
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Film 2000s
The World
Workers at a Beijing theme park that replicates world landmarks. Globalization as simulation.