1984
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Art and culture
- The term cyberspace is popularized
- first hackers
- launch of the Apple Macintosh
- Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell
Literature
Fiction
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
- The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Non-fiction
- The Hot House by Andrea Branzi
- Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Frederic Jameson
- Ninety-nine Novels by Anthony Burgess
Film
- Body Double by Brian de Palma
- The Funeral by Juzo Itami
- Suburbia by Spheeris
- Eureka by Nicolas Roeg
- Les Ripoux by Claude Zidi
- Tightrope by Richard Tuggle
- The Razor's Edge by John Byrum
- Blood Simple by Coen Brothers
- Repo Man by Alex Cox
- The Company of Wolves by Neil Jordan
- Choose Me by Alan Rudolph
- Crimes of Passion by Ken Russell
- Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense by Jonathan Demme
- Top Secret! by Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams
- Beat Street by Stan Lathan
- The Brother From Another Planet by John Sayles
- The Terminator by James Cameron
- Special Effects by Larry Cohen
- Under the Volcano by John Huston
Music
Manuel Göttsching releases the fascinating proto-techno cut "E2-E4", another Paradise Garage classic. New York sees Walter Gibbons with a splendid mix of the ten minute "Set It Off". Jessie Saunders funks Chicago up and almost launches house music while Juan Atkins releases "Techno City" with Cybotron in Detroit. Africa is never far away in the charts with both Hugh Masekela's "Don't Go Lose It Baby" and Tony Allen, Fela's drummer, who releases "Road Close".
Singles
- Nothing Is True by Carlos Peron
- Chief Inspector by Wally Badarou
- Mambo by Wally Badarou
- Ravi Shankar Pt.1 by the Dub Syndicate
- Set it Off by Strafe [Walter Gibbons mix]
- E2-E4 by Manuel Göttsching
- Don't Go Lose It Baby by Hugh Masekela
- World Destruction by Time Zone
- Release Yourself Aleem feat. Leroy Burgess
- Techno City by Cybotron
- Land of Hunger by The Earons
- High Energy by Evelyn Thomas
- Five Minutes by Bonzo Goes to Washington
- White Horse by Laid Back
- Poo Poo La La by Roy Ayers
- Somebody Else's Guy by Jocelyn Brown
- Road Close by Tony Allen
- You Don't Know by Serious Intention
- L. A. Night by Yasuko Agawa
Albums
- Hatful of Hollow by The Smiths
- Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise? by Art of Noise
- Bad Music for Bad People by The Cramps
- Tunes From the Missing Channel by Adrian Sherwood
- Nothing Is True; Everything Is Permitted by Carlos Peron
Births
Deaths
- Michel Foucault (1926 - 1984)
- Alexander Trocchi (1925 -1984)
- Andy Kaufman (1949 - 1984)
- Ada "Bricktop" Smith (1894 — 1984)
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