Harry Arnold

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Neuromancer

Gibson invented the word "cyberspace" — the founding text of the genre

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All Quiet on the Western Front

The anti-war novel — inside the trenches of WWI with no glory, only mud

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The Stranger

Camus's absurdist masterpiece — Meursault's radical indifference as a philosophical statement

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Whiplash

A film about the cruelty and transcendence of jazz mastery

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Blade Runner 2049

Villeneuve's sequel expands the philosophical questions of the original

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Apocalypse Now

Coppola's hallucinatory vision of Vietnam as a journey into the heart of darkness

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Princess Mononoke

Studio Ghibli at its most epic — nature, industry, and the cost of progress

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Drive

The film that launched a thousand synthwave revival projects

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Cyberpunk 2077

The most immersive cyberpunk world in games

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Spec Ops: The Line

A third-person shooter that becomes an indictment of the genre and its players

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Disco Elysium

A detective RPG that turns ideology into stats and philosophy into dialogue

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NieR: Automata

Yoko Taro's meditation on existence, meaning, and androids who choose to feel