1994
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"We are bound to Enlightenment values — the universality of moral principles, the sanctity of individual volition, a detestation of wanton cruelty — and yet we have no choice but to indict the very civilization that begat those values as it goes careening through time leaving pain, death, bewilderment, the wreckage of aboriginal tribes and of rain forests in its wake. But again, the terms of that indictment can be spelled out only in the language of those values. This, and not the mincing word games of the deconstructionists, is the true aporia. The criminal is also accuser and judge."--Higher Superstition (1994) by Gross and Levitt "I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong. Like all the drugs put together-the lithium, the Prozac, the desipramine, and Desyrel that I take to sleep at night-can no longer combat whatever it is that was wrong with me in the first place. I feel like a defective model, like I came off the assembly line flat-out fucked and my parents should have taken me back for repairs before the warranty ran out." --incipit Prozac Nation (1994) by Elizabeth Wurtzel |
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1994 (MCMXCIV) was the 94th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1990s decade.
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Art and culture
Film
- The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert by Stephan Elliott
- Le Parfum d'Yvonne by Patrice Leconte
- Heavenly Creatures by Peter Jackson
- Clean, Shaven by Lodge H. Kerrigan
- Once Were Warriors by Lee Tamahori
- Prêt-à-Porter by Robert Altman
- Nightwatch by Ole Bornedal
- Reality Bites by Ben Stiller
- Ed Wood by Tim Burton
- Pulp Fiction by Tarantino
- Exotica by Atom Egoyan
- The Madness of King George by Nicholas Hytner
- London by Patrick Keiller
Guilty pleasures
- The Sexual Life of the Belgians by Jan Bucquoy
- Exit to Eden by Garry Marshall
- The Last Seduction by John Dahl
Television
- The Kingdom (TV miniseries) by Morten Arnfred, Lars von Trier
Literature
Fiction
- Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque by Joyce Carol Oates
- Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem
Non-fiction
- Immoral Tales: European Sex & Horror Movies 1956-1984 by Cathal Tohill and Pete Tombs
- "Black to the Future", an essay by Mark Dery
Art
- Away from the Flock by Damien Hirst
- Great Deeds Against the Dead by the Chapmans
- Passages; Homage to Walter Benjamin by Israeli sculptor Dani Karavan
- Au Naturel by Sarah Lucas
Music
- Oldschool jungle reached its peak
Singles
- Throw by Carl Craig presents the Paperclip People
- Here Comes the Hotstepper by Ini Kamoze
- Hold On by Romanthony
- Regulate by Warren G and Nate Dogg
- God Made Me Phunky by Mike Dunn
- Wanderer by Romanthony
- So in Love with You by Duke
- Jumpin' by Todd Terry
- Beautiful People by Barbara Tucker
- One for the Trouble by A.D.O.R.
Albums
- Hallucination Engine by Material
- The Pushin' Dope EP by Kenny Dope
- Selected Ambient Works Volume II by Aphex Twin
- Acid Mt. Fuji by Susumu Yokota
Compilations
Births
Deaths
- Dennis Potter (1935 - 1994)
- Walter Gibbons (1954 - 1994)
- Derek Jarman (1942- 1994)
- Clement Greenberg (1909-1994)
- Guy Debord (1931 - 1994)
- Albert Goldman (1927 - 1994)
- Kurt Cobain (1967 - 1994)