Sentences with phrase «ersatz culture»

We might refer to this as a type of ersatz culture, where the experiential process of transcultural is somehow inhibited or thwarted from entering into a more habitable exchange of signs within the global village.

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In Updike's view, the ineluctable disappearance of religion in the life of Americans has been replaced by the ersatz religions of devotion to the bitch goddess of material success, and to the excitements of a degraded popular culture (the cult of the silver screen figures large in Lilies).

References to popular culture can be found in the «music video» of Mark Verabioff, an ersatz theatre ovation by Kate Gilmore, faux aerobic exercise tapes by Susan Lee - Chun, and a modern dance work by Yvonne Rainer.