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The Man in the High Castle (TV series season 1&2 after 1962 book by Philip K Dick)
Arguably The Man in the High Castle is the TV series of a particular alternate moment in our history. It is as if the popularity this series enjoys is just one facet of a constant up-swell, not only a dilation of the Overton Window that now celebrates identity politics, but also a genuine ‘hyernormalization’ of nationalism, islamophobia,…
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Madeinusa (2006)
Madeinusa is a 2005 film set in the fictional indigenous village of Manayaycuna (“the town no-one can enter” in Quechua) in the Peruvian Andes. The story covers three days in the lives of the villagers and a stranger from Lima. The stranger, Salvador (Carlos de la Torre), is unwelcome because he has arrived at the…