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Use this room when you already know the kind of cultural terrain you want to inspect. For guided orientation, open the Field Map or begin with a pathway.

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Now showing — There There · 5 works

  • The X-Files Television · 1990s

    Mulder and Scully investigate the paranormal. The truth is out there.

    PowerSurveillanceUrban isolation
  • There Will Be Blood Film · 2000s

    An oil prospector's rise and moral collapse. American capitalism as Old Testament fury.

    PowerModernityAfter-hours
  • 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
  • When Marnie Was There Anime · 2010s

    During a Literature Club meeting, the four club members—along with their faculty adviser's niece—suddenly find themselves with supernatural powers. Now capable of fabricating black flames, resident chuunibyou Jurai Andou is the most ecstatic about their new abilities; unfortunately, his own is only for show and unab...

    FolkloreAfter-hoursPower
  • In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, she plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace. Across the Pacific a novelist...

    PowerMemoryMigration
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Screen echoes for this book

Open the book outward through film, television, and animated works carrying adjacent tensions.

  • When Marnie Was There Anime
  • Welcome to the N.H.K. Anime
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  • IndiEarth Out There, Season 1 Music
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Interpretive layer
Idea lines behind this surface

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

  • Cruising Utopia Essays
  • Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind Essays