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Neo Medical

Neo Medical SA is a Swiss medical technology company founded in 2013 near Lausanne that develops universal implants, force-control technology, and an AI-driven augmented-reality system for spine fusion surgery.

Neo Sora

Neo Sora (空 音央, b. 1991, New York) is a Japanese-American filmmaker, son of Ryuichi Sakamoto; directed Opus (2023) and the Venice 2024 debut feature Happyend, a multi-award-winning near-future Tokyo drama.

Neo soul

Neo soul (nu soul) is a mid-1990s American R&B style built on classic soul, hip hop, jazz, and funk, with analog, live-instrumented production; named by Kedar Massenburg, defined by D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, and the Soulquarians.

NEO Surveyor

NEO Surveyor is a NASA infrared space telescope designed to find near-Earth asteroids and comets that could pose an impact hazard, launching no earlier than September 2027.

Neo Tokyo (film)

Neo Tokyo, original title Meikyū Monogatari (迷宮物語, Labyrinth Tales), title card Manie-Manie, is a 1987 Japanese animated sci-fi anthology with segments by Rintaro, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, and Katsuhiro Otomo, based on Taku Mayumura's linked stories.

Neo Yokio

Neo Yokio is a 2017 Netflix animated series created by Ezra Koenig, starring Jaden Smith as demon-hunting socialite Kaz Kaan, made with Production I.G, Studio Deen, and MOI, six episodes plus Pink Christmas.

Neo-Assyrian Empire

The Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–609 BCE) was the largest imperial polity of the ancient Near East before Achaemenid Persia, spanning over one million square kilometres under kings such as Sargon II, Sennacherib, and Ashurbanipal, known for relay roads, mass deportation, and the fall of Nineveh in 612 BCE.

Neo-Assyrian vassal treaties and adê oaths

Neo-Assyrian adê oaths were sworn pacts of loyalty imposed by the Assyrian king on foreign vassals and the Assyrian population between the ninth and seventh centuries BC.

Neo-Ba'athism

Neo-Ba'athism is the military, authoritarian variant of Ba'athism that ruled Syria from the 23 February 1966 coup by Salah Jadid until Hafez al-Assad's 1970 corrective movement, and by extension Saddam-era Iraq, abandoning pan-Arabism for regional socialism.

Neo-Babylonian Empire

Neo-Babylonian Empire (néo-babylonien), 626–539 BC, last native Mesopotamian empire with capital at Babylon; founded by Nabopolassar, expanded by Nebuchadnezzar II, ended by Cyrus the Great of Persia.

Neo-Concretism

Neo-Concretism (Neoconcretismo) was a Brazilian avant-garde art movement formed in Rio de Janeiro in 1959 as a dissident offshoot of São Paulo Concretism, valuing lived experience and the viewer's body over rationalism.

Neo-Confederates

Neo-Confederates are US adherents of Confederate ideology, also called neo-Confederacy, centered on the League of the South and Identity Dixie, Lost Cause myths, Confederate symbols, and white supremacist beliefs, classified by the SPLC as hate groups.

Neo-Confucianism

Neo-Confucianism (lixue 理學, daoxue 道學, Korean Seongnihak 性理學): Song-dynasty revival of Confucian thought adding li–qi metaphysics; Zhu Xi's Four Books canon, Cheng–Zhu vs Lu–Wang schools, and East Asian spread.

Neo-Elamite tablets from Susa

The Neo-Elamite tablets from Susa, known as the Susa Acropole tablets, are an archive of 299 Elamite administrative tablets excavated at Susa, Iran, and dated around 590–555 BCE.

Neo-Expressionism

Neo-Expressionism is an international art movement, chiefly in painting, that revived the raw, figurative, emotionally charged style of Expressionism among painters of the 1970s and 1980s, including Georg Baselitz and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Neo-fascism

Neo-fascism: post-1945 revival of fascist ideology, also called the new extreme right. Defined by Mammone's synthesis; MSI, SRP, German Reich Party; Griffin's four sub-types; distinct from, but continuous with, the radical right.

Neo-feudalism

Neo-feudalism, with related terms refeudalization, neo-medievalism, and techno-feudalism (Varoufakis, Dean, Kotkin), describes contemporary rent extraction and privatized power as a return of feudal relations; critics including Morozov and Gane argue capitalism persists.

Neo-futurism

Neo-futurism is a late-20th to early-21st-century movement in arts, design, and architecture that revives futurist interest in technology; named by Denis Laming, its examples include the Pompidou Centre and Burj Khalifa.

Neo-Impressionism

Neo-Impressionism, also known as Divisionism or Pointillism, is an avant-garde art movement led by Georges Seurat that flourished in France from 1886 to about 1900.

Neo-Inca State

The Neo-Inca State (Estado neoínca de Vilcabamba) was an independent Inca polity in the Vilcabamba region of Peru from 1537 to 1572, founded by Manco Inca.

Neo-Latin

Neo-Latin (New Latin) is the Latin of the Renaissance and early modern period, marked by imitation of classical style, beginning with Petrarch in fourteenth-century Italy, spoken as a lingua franca, and used in science; distinct from the French sense meaning Romance languages.

Neo-Luddism

Neo-Luddism is a modern movement criticizing and resisting technology, named after the British Luddites who smashed machinery between 1811 and 1817; Kirkpatrick Sale's 1995 book gave it its fullest statement.

Neo-Marxism

Neo-Marxism: post-World War II renaissance of Marxist theory combining Marx's concepts with non-Marxist economics (Keynes); first applied to Joan Robinson, Paul Baran, and Paul Sweezy; spans Lukács, the Frankfurt School, Althusser, and analytical Marxism.

Neo-nationalism

Neo-nationalism, or new nationalism, is the reemergence of nationalism under globalization, taking forms including far-right nationalism, evangelical nationalism, separatist nationalism, and Third World religious nationalism.

Neo-Nazism

Neo-Nazism, also called the Neo-Nazi movement, is the umbrella label for post-1945 fascist and white supremacist movements seeking to revive Nazism, marked by reverence for Hitler and Nazi symbolism.

Neo-noir

Neo-noir is the term for modern films reviving classic film noir's dark, morally ambiguous crime style, coined by Todd Erickson in 1990, flourishing from 1970s works like Chinatown and The Long Goodbye onward, in color, internationally, and in hybrids like tech-noir.

Neo-prog

Neo-prog (neo-progressive rock) is a progressive rock subgenre that developed in the UK in the early 1980s around Marillion, IQ, Pendragon, Pallas, and Twelfth Night, blending 1970s symphonic prog with 1980s sounds; it peaked commercially in the mid-1980s.

Neo-psychedelia

Neo-psychedelia, also called neo-psych, is a genre of music in which artists draw on 1960s psychedelia; it arose in British post-punk in the late 1970s.

Neo-Punic inscriptions

Neo-Punic inscriptions are Punic-language texts in the Neo-Punic script, used in the western Mediterranean after Carthage's destruction in 146 BC and attested into the 3rd century AD.

Neo-scholasticism

Neo-scholasticism, also called Neo-Thomism, is the revival of medieval scholastic philosophy in Catholic institutions. Sanctioned by Leo XIII's 1879 encyclical Aeterni Patris, it prevailed until Vatican II.