2008
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"Le Sec et l'Humide (2008) is a book-length essay by Jonathan Littell, a corpus analysis of the prose of Léon Degrelle in Campaign in Russia: The Waffen SS on the Eastern Front (1949) which makes a clear distinction between the dry (the fascists) and the humid (the Bolsheviks)."--Sholem Stein |
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2008 (MMVIII) was the 8th year of the 3rd millennium, the 8th year of the 21st century, and the 9th year of the 2000s decade.
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Art and culture
- Seduced, Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now, Barbican Centre, London
- Eros au secret exhibition
- If Hitler Had Been a Hippy How Happy we Would Be by Jake and Dinos Chapman
- Theanyspacewhatever by Guggenheim chief curator Nancy Spector
- Diana und Actaeon - Der verbotene Blick auf die Nacktheit, Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf
- 2008 Universal Studios fire
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Music
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Singles
- Blind by Hercules and Love Affair
- Everyone Nose (All the Girls Standing in the Line for the Bathroom) by N*E*R*D
- Paper Planes by M.I.A.
- Gold Dust by DJ Fresh
- American Boy by Estelle
- Strange Overtones by David Byrne
- Toe Jam by Fatboy Slim, Dizzee Rascal and David Byrne
- Sweet About Me by Gabriella Cilmi
- C'est Beau la Bourgeoisie by Discobitch
- Konijntje by Willie Wartaal
- I'll Kill Her by Soko
- Corporate Cannibal by Grace Jones
- Kalemba (Wegue Wegue)
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Albums
- Everything That Happens Will Happen Today by David Byrne and Brian Eno
- Going Places: The August Darnell Years 1976-1983 compilation on Strut Records
- Crystal Castles by Crystal Castles
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Writing
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Literature
- Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
- Collapse Volume IV: 'Concept Horror', issue of journal of contemporary philosophy
- Feuchtgebiete by Charlotte Roche
- The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
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Film
- WALL-E by Disney
- Be Kind Rewind by Michel Gondry
- Moscow, Belgium by Christophe Van Rompaey
- Tropic Thunder by Ben Stiller
- Jumper by Doug Liman
- The Baader Meinhof Complex by Uli Edel
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Video
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Visual art
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Deaths
- September 16 – Norman Whitfield, American songwriter and producer (b. 1940)
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