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Asian Futures Without Asians

Imaginary Worlds

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The Conical Hat in Blade Runner

In litiman, when they're underground, there ir some of the people who are underground in the dark wearing these hats. In solo, starworth's story, there's this conical hat that so huge and exaggerated that it completely covers the man's body,. So he can't even see out of the hat, even though his job is to see. I think it's just used to me like it's a tropical location where they do illegal things. And then there's food. These films have created a hierarchy where japanese food is often presented as high brow, while chinese food is presented as low brow. Of course, there's the really famous scene at the beginning of

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