1999
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"On September 9, 1999 in Die Zeit, Peter Sloterdijk, following a public debate regarding his speech Rules for the Human Zoo, declared critical theory to be "dead"."--Sholem Stein |
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1999 is the 999th year of the 2nd millennium, the 99th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1990s decade.
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Art
- La Nona Ora (The Ninth Hour), a sculpture by Maurizio Cattelan
- Yo Mama's Last Supper by Renée Cox
Music
Singles
- Na Fe Throw by Tikiman
- Get a Move On by Mr Scruff
- Knights of the Jaguar by DJ Rolando
- Be Faithful by Fatman Scoop
- Carnaval de São Vicente by Cesaria Evora
- Burning by Pepe Bradock
- Sing It Back by Moloko
- Windowlicker by Aphex Twin
- The Next Episode by Snoop Dogg
- Cada Vez (Que Te Veo) by Negrocan
- Red Alert by Basement Jaxx
- Flat Beat by Mr. Oizo
- Original Disco Motion by Faze Action
Albums
- First Come, First Served by Kool Keith
- Cowboy Rumba by Ned Sublette
Literature
Non-fiction
- Exotica: Fabricated Soundscapes in a Real World by David Toop
- Writing on Drugs by Sadie Plant
- Last Night a DJ Saved My Life by Brewster and Broughton
- "Rules for the Human Zoo" by Sloterdijk
- Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin by Richard Davenport-Hines
- Images of Lust by Anthony Weir and James Jerman
Fiction
- Launching of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore
- La vie sexuelle d'Emmanuel Kant by Jean-Baptiste Botul
Film
- Girl on the Bridge by Patrice Leconte
- Audition by Takashi Miike
- Romance X by Catherine Breillat
- Eyes Wide Shut by Stanley Kubrick
- eXistenZ by David Cronenberg
- Magnolia by P.T. Anderson
- All About My Mother by Pedro Almodovar
- Extension du domaine de la lutte by Philippe Harel
- Fight Club by David Fincher
- Ghost Dog by Jim Jarmusch
- Une Liaison Pornographique
- Being John Malkovich by Spike Jonze
- The Matrix by Larry and Andy Wachowski
- The Blair Witch Project by Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez
- American Beauty by Sam Mendes
- Sweet and Lowdown by Woody Allen
- Wonderland by Michael Winterbottom
- Man on the Moon by Milos Forman
- Office Space by Mike Judge
Documentary film
Births
Deaths
- Augustus Pablo (1954 - 1999)
- Gwen Guthrie (1950 - 1999)
- Robert Bresson (1907 - 1999)
- Dirk Bogarde (1921 - 1999)
- Stanley Kubrick (1928 - 1999)
- Eric Stanton (1926 - 1999)
- Gershon Legman (1917 - 1999)
- Louis Hardin aka Moondog (1916 - 1999)
- Riccardo Freda (1909 - 1999)
- Joe D'Amato (1936 - 1999)
- Paul Bowles (1910 - 1999)
- April 26 – Adrian Borland, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1957)
See also
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