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  • Almost Paradise Television · 2020s

    Almost Paradise is a 2020 television series from United States, shaped by named creators. It helps the serial catalog read as a real field of seasons, institutions, and recurring pressure. Rooted in United States. Engages with nature, surveillance. In the index for the quality of its sustained storytelling.

    PowerNatureSurveillance
  • Almost Never Television · 2010s

    Almost Never is a 2019 television series from United Kingdom, shaped by named creators. It helps the serial catalog read as a real field of seasons, institutions, and recurring pressure. Rooted in United Kingdom. Engages with nature, surveillance. In the index for the quality of its sustained storytelling.

    NaturePowerSurveillance
  • Real Life Books · 2020s

    "A novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend -- and a lifetime of buried pain. Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midwestern university town where he is working toward a biochem degr...

    PowerMemoryMigration
  • Welcome to the N.H.K. Anime · 2000s

    Twenty-two-year-old college dropout Tatsuhiro Satou has been a hikikomori for almost four years now. In his isolation, he has come to believe in many obscure conspiracy theories, but there is one in particular which he holds unshakable faith in: the theory that the evil conspirator behind his shut-in NEET (Not in Em...

    Urban isolationFolkloreIdentity
  • Illness as Metaphor Essays · 1970s

    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...

    PowerModernityResistance
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