Sentences with phrase «cultural anxieties»

Here is an example of the kind of thinking that all of our parental and cultural anxiety about grades results in.

I suspect that this frustrating reality is the source of the racial and cultural anxieties beneath the surface of the small - government rhetoric.

«We need to think deeper about why we seem out of touch to so many and understand the demands of cultural anxiety as well as economic prosperity.»

Denis Villeneuve's hotly - anticipated sequel arrives a time of heightened cultural anxiety in the West.

As a result, this Godzilla doesn't tap into deeper cultural anxieties the way its 60 - year - old ancestor did.

Minter's work examines the relationships between the body, photography, and painting, tapping into cultural anxieties about sexuality and desire.

«A cocktail of deepening cultural anxiety, rising economic insecurity and a growing disillusion with the political system has made the English question something far more complex than simply a response to Scottish devolution and European integration.»

As Eric Klinenberg, Sociologist at NYU and author of the book Going Solo, says, «There's so much cultural anxiety about isolation in our country that we often fail to appreciate the benefits of solitude.»

The missing footage was deemed too extreme and too provocative in its depiction of gay S&M subculture for mainstream audiences, and so this bid at reenactment is ostensibly meant to confront that controversy head on and, in doing so, upend deeply held cultural anxieties about gay male sexuality and sex.

Close Readings brings together practices that are by turns invested in uncovering the frailty of language, prodding at cultural anxieties and individual pleasures, excavating and refusing legacies, asking for tenderness, applying pressure, attending to the complications and vulnerabilities of being together while we are implicated — politically, socially, personally — by artworks and their demands on us.

Influenced by Sontag's 1965 essay «The Imagination of Disaster», Golden explores cultural anxieties in relation to visual culture; by painting the «unthinkable» — be it conflict, apocalypse or a long lost time - period — the artist exposes universal concerns of the human psyche.»

There are inherent cultural anxieties around aspects of visual culture particularly images of conflict, Golden exposes these and therefore the universal concerns of the human psyche.

The Institute of Cultural Anxiety: Works from the collection.

Immigration evokes both economic and cultural anxieties in particularly powerful ways, which is why it has become such a volatile issue.

Increasing alienation between the North and South in political discourse is fuelled by deep cultural anxieties..

Marilyn Minter (American, b. 1948) constructs visceral and gaudy paintings, photographs, and video works that examine the relationship between the body, cultural anxieties about sexuality and desire, and fashion imagery.

Finally, Noll's fascinating conclusion that Protestant colonists were most apt to apply biblical teaching to public life when they had an anxious relationship with the wider social order seems to imply a fundamental and revealing link between biblical hermeneutics and cultural anxiety.

More broadly, they've proven Greenberg and company's original terror management theory right all along: that people deal with death by upholding worldviews that are larger and longer - lasting than themselves, and opposing anyone or anything that violates these «cultural anxiety - buffers.»

Early medieval hagiographers often projected their cultural anxieties onto swamps — fearsome landscapes full of fearsome people.

These cultural anxieties are the best way into a debate about who is running this world, and in whose interests.»

Continued EU membership can help address both economic uncertainty and cultural anxiety — widespread fears that certain values and ways of life are threatened by the forces of transnational markets.

Without all of the cultural anxieties attached to it, menopause can simply be thought of as a transition in a woman's life.

A lot of our cultural anxiety about masturbation stems from 18th century theories, when the myths about illness and degeneration were first inscribed in advertising pamphlets parading as medical studies.

Intentional or not, these personal and cultural anxieties are baked into the game itself, creating an experience that goes beyond a simple fantasy adventure.

It was also a sign of cultural anxiety, each hashtagged, abusive tweet a hairline crack in the shifting landscape of games.

I love sleep (and all artwork associated with beds) so if I were in Toronto I'd definitely check out «Figures of Sleep,» curated by Sarah Robayo Sheridan Opening at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto on January 25, the exhibition «considers the cultural anxieties manifest in the popular and critical imagination around the collapsing biological function of sleep under economic, social and technological transformation.»

Referring to Doomocracy as an act of «political catharsis,» Reyes leverages political, social, and cultural anxiety — and fear itself — as the media for participation and cultural critique.

This recalls romantic and transcendental themes while also nodding to cultural anxiety about the «disappearance» of religion in America.

These photographs speak of the cultural anxieties provoked by surveillance which today has become so much a part of daily life.

«If to put an image of one's body on the Internet is to frame it with the apparatus of porn, to lose control of its circulation, and to expose oneself to the cultural anxiety, sexist scrutiny, and confounding hostility that attend the gesture, then what's the way forward?»

The Institute of Cultural Anxiety: Works from the Collection.

As an article states, «according to terror management theory, increased self - esteem should enhance the functioning of the cultural anxiety buffer and thereby provide protection against death concerns».