Sentences with phrase «human culture increasingly»

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Contemporary cultures had lost a vital understanding of the foundations of human dignity and were increasingly marked both by disillusion and by a mechanical and instrumental account of the human person.

With early Romanticism gradually fading away into the petit - bourgeois aesthetic cocoon known as Biedermeier (c. 1815 — 1848), German culture increasingly acquiesces to Romanticism's most worrisome features: its strident nationalist undertow; its messianic aspirations, which mutated into delusions of racial superiority; its Rousseauian attempt at recovering authentic, immediate Life (Leben); the variously violent and sexualized mythology in which its major representatives (Friedrich Schlegel, Heinrich von Kleist, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Novalis) ground their longing for human - engineered salvation.

The problem in contemporary culture is that a large proportion of society is increasingly blind to the fundamental structure of human nature and to the ethical character of human sexuality.

According to the coalition's statement, their manifesto comes as «Western culture has become increasingly post-Christian... it has embarked upon a massive revision of what it means to be a human being».

In a global culture increasingly driven by scientific and technological innovation, research in areas ranging from microbial genomes to the human brain will become ever more inextricably linked to public health, medicine, and industry.

The increasingly global nature of human society, with interdependent economies, international communications networks and intermingling cultures, has created, according to Gregory Stock, the conditions for the emergence of a new type of being — a social super-organism bound together by technology, which he calls Metaman.

Ken Loach's latest, the winner of this year's Palme d'Or at Cannes, is one of the most important films of 2016; there couldn't be a more timely moment for a film about the value of citizenship, and to issue a protest against the increasingly powerful dehumanizing forces of what you might call «client culture,» the corporate logic that reduces human lives to economic statistics or blips on screens.

As a member of the jury for the Frieze Artist Award, I'm very excited to offer this platform for Pattison to build upon his thought - provoking and increasingly relevant work, exploring cultures of «trending» in the digital economy and the implications for human industry, creativity and control.»

Examining the regimes of control to which the human body is increasingly subjected — ranging from governmental and corporate surveillance to the relentless pursuit of youth — Kline addresses the erosion of boundaries between labor and leisure and the incursion of consumer culture into the most literally intimate aspects of life: blood, DNA, neurochemistry.

The built environment lurks in a number of sculptural installations and videos as emblematic of our recent economic crash and stand - ins for human culture, as other artists address the natural environment and our increasingly complex relationship to it.

Featuring established and emerging international artists from around the globe, the 14th edition of the Sharjah Biennial (SB14), Leaving the Echo Chamber, explores the possibilities and purpose of producing art when history is increasingly fictionalised, when ideas of «society» are invariably displaced, when borders and beliefs are under constant renegotiation and our material culture is under the constant threat of human destruction and climate degradation.