Sentences with phrase «cultural obsession with»

In fact, writer Stephanie Dolgoff4 suggests that our cultural obsession with appearance and thinness keeps us from focusing on the more important, and often more difficult - to - discuss, things in life.

Of course, lawyers are only one example of our cultural obsession with rankings.

And to be honest, parents are up against a lot of competition — between junk food marketing and the preponderance of crazy unhealthy food flooding the landscape in combination with the media and cultural obsession with thinness, it's amazing more of us don't just completely short - circuit.

Honigman criticizes the preference of art market for young artists, which for her comes from a broader cultural obsession with youth, while Mattera poses a question if ageism in art is even legal.

Matthew Schlagbaum focuses his attention on our cultural obsession with happiness, and the unstable specifics of how it is depicted and obtained.

The works are a commentary on the fleeting nature of time, the fragility of life, the representation of women, and our cultural obsession with disposable objects.

This documentary explores Japan's fascination with girl bands and their music, delving into the cultural obsession with young female sexuality and the growing disconnect between men and women in hyper modern societies.

It's not exactly subtle social commentary, but it most definitely has something to do with our cultural obsession with pretty much anything related to cats.

To complain that The Neon Demon lacks substance or that it doesn't have anything to say about our cultural obsession with beauty is to miss the crazy, cracked pageant unfolding in front of you.

It's a classic high - concept sketch that's stuffed with good jokes and a layer of commentary on our cultural obsession with Trump over everything.

This negative pattern stopped only when I began to separate myself from the cultural obsession with controlling female bodies.

Our cultural obsession with passion as a prerequisite for work threatens to cut vocational formation off at the head.

The following excerpt is from Girard's essay in a recent issue on «Eating Disorders and Mimetic Desire,» in which he contends that anorexia and bulimia are driven by a cultural obsession with being thin.

What's you response to the cultural obsession with positivity — is it inspirational or just plain annoying?

While our cultural obsessions with deep fried sticks of starch may be a bit much, I have to admit that they are pretty good.

Not exact matches

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

Stereotypes of the British as Victorian - era imperialists are as cack - handed and ignorant as jokes about the Germans still being Nazis, but they play well to her domestic audience, who are still bruised by the war and Argentina's perpetual obsession with its own cultural superiority - a sort of Japan of the Latin Americas.

The author travels all over the cultural map, from golden statues of Kate Moss to the biblical obsession with sulfur.

Whether that's Meghan Trainor singing about her booty, Gisele kickboxing, women kicking ass in Spartan Race, or even someone like Kimanzi Constable talking about how men struggle with body image, too, the cultural conversation has shifted from an obsession with flat abs to a commitment to loving what we've got and treating our bodies with care.

Tokyo Idols gets at the heart of a cultural phenomenon driven by an obsession with young female sexuality and internet popularity.

While it's hard to tell where the homage ends and genuine cultural absorption begins with the Japanese and their (perfectly reasonable) obsession with Mobile Suit Gundam, I do find the use of Gundam as a reference point interesting, because much as the mobile suit's use in Gundam is to provide a vehicle that can operate equally well in space, under Earth's gravity, and in the artificial «gravity» of O'Neill cylinders, Vanquish is taking the commonly used Western term «space marine» quite literally, as Vanquish's power armor seems to be designed both as a spacesuit and as body armor, used to infiltrate a structure floating in space.

Along with her prevailing obsession with cultural identity, and inspired by recent personal events, the artist began down a new path of self - discovery.

She eventually opened her first gallery in Shanghai in 2005 to support cultural exchange between the East and West as well as encourage Chinese collectors to pay attention to Chinese contemporary artists amid a societal obsession with Western culture.

Annie Leibovitz's «Isabella Rossellini and David Lynch» is about the closest Masters comes to the post-Warholian pop cultural obsession of emerging artists scattering the Frieze London tent, a collective fascination with the Kanyes, Clintons and #NSFWs of recent, to extremely recent history pointing to the total infiltration of mass media, post-2000.

Summoning Ghosts: The Art of Hung Liu: A career survey of a painter born in China shortly before the 1949 revolution traces her work's obsession with the power of memory and the cultural distances traversed in her experience.

For more than 40 years, Minter has tackled cultural appetites in the open, holding up a mirror to modern obsessions and re-rendering them with biting, colorful glitz.

As the director and curator of Carnegie Mellon's Miller Gallery she curated Keep It Slick: Infiltrating Capitalism with The Yes Men, the first solo exhibition of the internationally renowned culture - jamming group; Whatever It Takes: Steelers Fan Collections, Rituals, and Obsessions, which explored sports fanaticism as a significant form of cultural production; and Alien She, a traveling exhibition on the lasting impact of the global punk feminist movement Riot Grrrl, among other exhibitions.

In a beatiful piece of writing for Aeon, Frank Bures examines the modern obsession with the apocalypse and the attendant cultural despair and resignation it induces: