The fundamental contradiction between society and nature that is implied in modern
industrial culture and society is being intensified in the global market, which is dominated by fiercely competing corporate agencies.
Not exact matches
The «mass
culture» that seems an inevitable accompaniment to
industrial society has been rejected in favor of the intimate, the personal, the communal, the kind of
culture that individuals
and small groups can make for themselves.
The first manifestation of this dilemma or contradiction leading to possible mortality is the ecological crisis — the threat which an expanding technological
and industrial culture poses to the nature system
and the natural resources on which all life depends, including the life of a technological
and industrial society itself.
Hitherto the Western
industrial culture has dictated the relations between life in nature
and life in human
society, both capitalist
and socialist.
The changes which fostered, accompanied,
and were produced by the
industrial revolution — such as urbanism
and all that it implied — put to stringent test the practices
and institutional patterns of a Protestantism which had been closely identified with rural
society and culture.
In secondary education... we are beset by a peculiar paradox: in our complex
industrial society there is increasingly more to learn,
and formal education is ever more important in shaping one's life chances; at the same time, there is coming to be more
and more an independent «
society of adolescents,» an adolescent
culture which shows little interest in education
and focuses the attention of teenagers on cars, dates, sports, popular music,
and other matters just as unrelated to school.
The original Triadic Ballet explored the impact that machine
culture and the
industrial revolution had on
society at the time.
«By positioning the statement We Are All Workers in the middle of Nordkraft, I aim at the transformation from an
industrial society to an information -
and education
culture that Aalborg is undergoing these years,
and which this 30,000 m2 cultural centre is itself a significant expression of».
After all, for all the blandness that
industrial society has created, there is a hell of a lot of richness, diversity
and opportunity that previous generations — especially those
cultures celebrated by environmentalists — could not even conceive of.
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Culture is an attempt to document how the current prison
industrial complex operates
and to underscore the ways that it structures American
society.