Sentences with phrase «against everyday concerns»
People struggle to prioritise such risks when set against everyday concerns that are much more real and pressing, like poverty, hunger, air and water pollution, and urban congestion.
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This idea swims against a tide that has been gathering strength since the post-war period, when artists began to work seriously at shrinking that separation between art (that is aesthetic intervention) and life (the everyday, social relations that describe what this exhibition regards as our supposed purgatory in contrast to a heaven of artistic concerns).
That said, the significance of Akerman's work for the present moment is not merely a formal or medial matter, but is strongly connected to her programmatic interrogation of issues that concern biography, gender, identity, and memory, all of which are framed against the backdrop of her groundbreaking exploration of the aesthetic of everyday life.
Bitcoin's popularity could have also raised concerns from authorities that believe the cryptocurrency could «weaken the official control of the country's money supply,» because everyday investors have progressively bought into Bitcoin, betting against the yuan.