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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 — What's Going On · 5 works

  • What Happened to Monday is a 2017 film from United Kingdom, France, and Belgium, associated with Tommy Wirkola. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata s...

    After-hoursMemoryLonging
  • What We Do in the Shadows is a 2014 film from New Zealand, associated with Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.

    After-hoursMemoryLonging
  • Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not is a 2006 album associated with Arctic Monkeys and Domino Recording Company. It keeps the music field anchored in recognizable listening lines rather than anonymous album slots.

    After-hoursLonging
  • A robot child is programmed to love his human mother — who abandons him. Spielberg completes Kubrick's fairy tale about what it means to be real.

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  • Bleeding Edge Books · 2010s

    New York City, 2001. Fraud investigator Maxine Tarnow starts looking into the finances of a computer-security firm and its billionaire geek CEO and discovers there's no shortage of swindlers looking to grab a piece of what's left of the tech bubble.

    Urban isolationPowerSurveillance
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  • Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Music
  • (What's the Story) Morning Glory? Music
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  • The Sock Doctrine: What can be done about state-funded political activism? Essays
  • On Photography Essays
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  • The Leftovers Television
  • What We Do in the Shadows Film