Sentences with phrase «as urban alienation»

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Most damning of all, America has become the very embodiment of that alienation, anomie, and dehumanization which is the curse of existence in a highly technological and urban society (Heidegger has remarked that, metaphysically speaking, America and Russia are the same, for here «time as history» has vanished from human life).

Along with Roman Polanski's underrated masterpiece The Tenant this has to count as being amongst the most paranoid films ever made about urban alienation (and hey, who never experienced that?)

And, as market forces continue to separate rich and poor families in the U.S. and drain inner cities of decent jobs in the name of higher profits, can we really blame urban schools for parents» alienation from many institutions?

Cheng's feelings as an outsider to New York and American culture at large play out upon its physical edge, where the experience of urban and cultural alienation are described via landscapes of post-industrial abandon.

Her paintings are asymmetrical and her colors vivid, reflecting the elements of the earth and the richness of her themes which she describes as «humanity and people's alienation from nature in the urban world.»

Moseid has since 2007 worked with Plucked as an investigation of the home duality, social segregation, urban alienation and interpersonal relationships.