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Now showing — A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful · 5 works

  • Cosmos: A Personal Voyage Television · 1980s

    Thirteen episodes of wonder. Sagan's tour of the universe established science documentary as philosophical inquiry.

    IdentityPowerSurveillance
  • A Lover's Discourse Books · 1970s

    A Lover's Discourse: Fragments is a 1977 book by Roland Barthes. It contains a list of "fragments", some of which come from literature and some from his own philosophical thought, of a lover's point of view. Barthes calls them "figures"—gestures of the lover at work.

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  • 2001: A Space Odyssey Film · 1960s

    From apes to stargate. Cinema's most ambitious vision of human evolution and cosmic mystery.

    After-hoursLongingUrban isolation
  • A Clockwork Orange Film · 1970s

    Ultra-violence and behavioral conditioning. Free will versus state control in a dystopian Britain.

    PowerSurveillanceAfter-hours
  • The Shining Film · 1980s

    A family winters in an isolated hotel. Madness, isolation, and the Overlook's ghosts.

    Urban isolationFolkloreAfter-hours
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  • Cosmos: A Personal Voyage Television
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