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Against Interpretation
Against Interpretation is Susan Sontag's 1964 essay and the title piece of her 1966 first essay collection, arguing that decoding art for hidden content violates art and calling for an erotics of art over hermeneutics.
Against Me!
Against Me!: American punk rock band formed in Gainesville, Florida in 1997 by Tom Gabel, later Laura Jane Grace; folk-punk roots, albums Reinventing Axl Rose and Transgender Dysphoria Blues, labels No Idea, Sire, Total Treble.
Against the Current (band)
Against the Current (ATC) is an American pop rock trio formed in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 2011: Chrissy Costanza, Dan Gow, Will Ferri. Known for YouTube covers, the Fueled by Ramen albums In Our Bones and Past Lives, and the independent 2026 album Till Death & Back.
Against the Current (兰香如故)
Against the Current (兰香如故) is a 2026 Chinese costume drama adapted from He Yanshan's novel Lan Xiang Yuan, starring Tan Songyun and Liu Xueyi. It premiered September 11, 2026 on CCTV-8 and Tencent Video, ran 47 episodes, and peaked at a Tencent heat value of 33491.
Against the Grain (Bad Religion album)
Against the Grain, Bad Religion's fifth album (Epitaph, November 23, 1990; 17 songs, 35 minutes), closes the Suffer/No Control trilogy, was cut at Westbeach Recorders, and was the last with drummer Pete Finestone.
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States, James C. Scott's 2017 Yale University Press book, argues grain legibility enabled taxation and early states, which were oppressive, disease-prone, and fragile, with collapse often emancipation.
Against the Ice
Against the Ice (2022) is a Netflix survival drama directed by Peter Flinth, starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen and Joe Cole as Iver Iversen, based on Mikkelsen's Two Against the Ice about the 1909 Greenland expedition.
Against the Storm (video game)
Against the Storm is a dark fantasy roguelite city builder by Eremite Games and Hooded Horse, released 1.0 on 8 December 2023, where settlements are disposable runs against endless rain, Hostility, and Resolve mechanics.
Against the Sun
Against the Sun (2015) is an American survival drama, Brian Falk's directorial debut, based on the true 1942 story of Navy airmen Dixon, Pastula, and Aldrich adrift in the South Pacific, starring Garret Dillahunt, Tom Felton, and Jake Abel.
Agaja
Agaja was a king of Dahomey, ruling from Abomey, who conquered the coastal Aja states of Allada in 1724 and Whydah in 1727, then submitted to Oyo in 1730.
Agak Laen: Menyala Pantiku!
Agak Laen: Menyala Pantiku! (2025) is an Indonesian comedy-mystery film by Muhadkly Acho, a standalone follow-up to Agak Laen, in which detectives Bene, Boris, Jegel, and Oki go undercover in a nursing home; it set Indonesia's all-time admissions record at 11,000,866.
Agaléga
Agaléga: twin coral islands of Mauritius about 1,000 km north of Port Louis, 26 sq km, 330 people, coconut economy, OIDC-administered; site of an India-funded 3 km airstrip and jetty inaugurated in 2024, disputed as a possible Indian military facility.
Agalloch
Agalloch: Portland, Oregon metal band formed 1995 by John Haughm, blending black metal, doom, and neofolk; five albums including The Mantle; disbanded 2016, reunited 2023 with drummer Hunter Ginn.
Agalsidase alfa
Agalsidase alfa (Replagal) is a recombinant human alpha-galactosidase A enzyme replacement therapy for Fabry disease, EU-approved in 2001 at 0.2 mg/kg biweekly; distinct from agalsidase beta, it is not US-approved.
Agalsidase beta
Agalsidase beta (Fabrazyme) is recombinant human alpha-galactosidase A, an intravenous enzyme replacement therapy for Fabry disease, dosed 1 mg/kg every two weeks; US accelerated approval 2003, EU 2001, boxed anaphylaxis warning.
Agalychnis
Agalychnis, leaf frogs (Phyllomedusidae), a genus of 14 Neotropical tree frog species including the red-eyed tree frog A. callidryas; arboreal egg-laying, rapid threat-triggered hatching, CITES Appendix II proposal.
Agalychnis callidryas
Agalychnis callidryas, the red-eyed treefrog or red-eyed leaf frog, is a Phyllomedusinae tree frog from Mexico to northern South America, known for red eyes, green body, escape-hatching embryos, IUCN Least Concern, CITES Appendix II.
Agalychnis moreletii
Agalychnis moreletii, Morelet's treefrog or black-eyed leaf frog, a montane Phyllomedusinae treefrog from Mexico to Honduras; IUCN Least Concern since 2016 after Critically Endangered 2004, decreasing trend, CITES Appendix II.
Agam
Agam is a Carnatic progressive rock band from Bengaluru, India, formed in 2003, best known for "Malhar Jam" on MTV's Coke Studio in 2012 and for its 2025 album Arrival of the Ethereal.
Agama
Agama is an African genus of agamid lizards (Agama Daudin, 1802; type species A. colonorum) with 60 recognized species, including the rainbow lizard Agama agama, introduced to Florida.
Agamemnon (γαμέμνων)
Agamemnon (γαμέμνων), mythical king of Mycenae, commander of the Greeks at Troy; sacrificed Iphigenia to Artemis at Aulis, quarreled with Achilles in the Iliad, and was murdered by Clytemnestra on his return.
Agamidae
Agamidae, the dragon lizards or agamas, is a family of Old World lizards found in Africa, Asia, Australia, and southeastern Europe, including gliding Draco and the frilled lizard.
Agamotto
Agamotto is a fictional mystical entity in Marvel Comics, one of the three Vishanti, created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in 1963 as part of the Doctor Strange series.
Aganippe Fossa
Aganippe Fossa (Ἀγανίππη) is a roughly 600-km-long graben on the northwestern flank of Arsia Mons, Mars, with walls 3–7 km apart; IAU-named 1976, origin debated (tectonics, dikes, or lava-tube collapse).
Agapanthus
Agapanthus (African lily, Lily of the Nile) is a southern African genus of eight rhizomatous Amaryllidaceae species with blue or white umbels, 625+ cultivars, medicinal uses, and invasive status in New Zealand.
Agape
Agape (Ἀγάπη) is a Greek word for love that became the standard biblical term for God's love for humanity and Christian love, rare in classical Greek before the Septuagint.
Agapetus II
Agapetus II, pope from 946 until his death in December 955, was a Roman elected under the influence of Alberic II and known for granting Otto I wide jurisdiction over Danish and German bishoprics.
Agapi
Agapi is a 2024 abstract board game by Achille Morenville, a variant of Amazons with bishop-moving pieces on an 8x8 board; players move diagonally then shoot orthogonal balls, and a player who cannot move or shoot loses.
Agapia Stephanopoulos
Mother Agapia Stephanopoulos, born Anastasia Stephanopoulos, is an American ROCOR nun, sister of George Stephanopoulos, who served at the Convent of Saint Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem and now leads the Convent of Saint Nicholas of Myra in Owego, New York, advocating for Palestinian Christians.
Agar
Agar (agar-agar, E406, CAS 9002-18-0), kanten: polysaccharide of agarose and agaropectin from red algae (Gelidium, Gracilaria); gels at 34-43 °C, melts above 85 °C; used in food, culture media, and electrophoresis.