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Deadwood Television · 2000s

A frontier mining camp becomes a town. Shakespeare in the mud of the American West.

PowerSurveillanceUrban isolation
Waiting for the Barbarians Books · 1980s

A magistrate on the frontier confronts the Empire's brutality. Colonialism as moral parable.

After-hoursMemoryMigration
Homogenic Music · 1990s

Volcanic beats and string arrangements. Iceland as emotional landscape.

NatureAfter-hoursLonging
Kid A Music · 2000s

Radiohead abandons guitar rock for electronic abstraction. The sound of millennial dread.

After-hoursLonging
Post Music · 1990s

Army of Me, Hyperballad, and It's Oh So Quiet. Björk's most eclectic and accessible album.

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