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Now showing — An Elephant Sitting Still · 5 works

  • An Autumn Afternoon Film · 1960s

    An aging widower realizes he must let his daughter marry. Ozu's final film.

    After-hoursLongingUrban isolation
  • A handover-era Hong Kong written as an imaginary cartography — the city read as a set of speculative maps on the eve of transition.

    Urban isolationMemoryMigration
  • An Old-Fashioned Girl Books · 1860s

    An Old-Fashioned Girl is a 1869 book by Louisa May Alcott, linked to United States and English. It keeps the reading field grounded in identifiable authorship and place.

    PowerMemoryMigration
  • Mosses from an Old Manse is a 1846 book by Nathaniel Hawthorne, linked to United States and English. It keeps the reading field grounded in identifiable authorship and place.

    PowerMemoryMigration
  • Four people in a northern Chinese city endure one bleak day. The director's only film before his death.

    Urban isolationAfter-hoursLonging
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Idea lines behind this surface

Bring interpretation forward so the route reads with more clarity, pressure, and argument.

  • Reassembling the Social. An introduction to Actor-Network-Theory Essays