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Now showing — 1984 · 5 works

  • 1984 Books · 1940s

    Big Brother watches. Totalitarianism, surveillance, and the corruption of language.

    SurveillanceMemoryMigration
  • Money Books · 1980s

    Money: A Suicide Note is a 1984 novel by Martin Amis. It follows John Self, an advertising director whose hedonism and compulsive spending propel a chaotic transatlantic film project and a personal unravelling. Contemporary and later critics have frequently read the book as a sharp satire of 1980s consumer culture a...

    IdentityAfter-hoursMemory
  • The Pearl Music · 1980s

    The Pearl is the second collaborative studio album by Harold Budd and Brian Eno, released in August 1984 by Editions EG and produced by Eno and Daniel Lanois in Hamilton, Ontario. The Pearl is similar to Budd and Eno's previous collaboration, Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror (1980), consisting mostly of subtly trea...

    After-hoursLonging
  • Powerslave Music · 1980s

    Powerslave is a 1984 album associated with Iron Maiden and EMI. It keeps the music field anchored in recognizable listening lines rather than anonymous album slots.

    PowerAfter-hoursLonging
  • Ride the Lightning Music · 1980s

    Ride the Lightning is a 1984 album associated with Metallica and Megaforce Records. It keeps the music field anchored in recognizable listening lines rather than anonymous album slots.

    After-hoursLonging
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  • Sister Outsider Essays