Sentences with phrase «human urban existence»
He's fascinated partly because «they are beautiful creatures», and also because their habits present a fragile analogy (or contrast) to human urban existence, since they are capable of «living in great numbers together in relative peace».
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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).
Boyden describes four ecological phases of human existence: hunter - gatherer, early farming, early urban and modern high - energy.
Combining French anthropologist Andre Leroi - Gourhain's theorie of evolution with the myth of the centaur Chiron the film narrates the hybrid existence of human beings in contemporary urban environments.
Brimming with Gilbert & George's unique visual vocabulary, it functions as a social document of life in our modern urban world, examining issues of nationality and individuality, class tensions, and the artists» preoccupations with religion, politics, sex, death, and human existence.
Digging up and burning the deposits of ancient sunlight stored eons ago in primeval swamps has transformed human existence and made industrial and urban civilization possible.