Sentences with phrase «nihilism of»

That is why America owes denier William Grey and Kyoto - fighter George Bush so many kudos for standing tall against the nihilism of the Left's Doomsday Global Warming Machine when it was the most hard for anyone to do that.

In this final reckoning, there will be no place for the hedonistic nihilism of the last 20 years, nor for the artists who have become playthings of the rich.

However, the comic nihilism of Manzoni's signed, sealed tins of «Merda d'Artista» (1961) foreshadows more accurately the tenor of what follows.

The Beats were allegedly reacting to the nihilism of a holocaust.

Probably no contemporary painting could overcome the peculiar nihilism of the corporate public space.

Einarsson's paintings reflect iconic movements from the history of modernism, recalling the geometric vocabularies of artists such as Kasimir Malevich and Frank Stella, the pop - graphic derivations of Roy Lichtenstein, and the mannered nihilism of Steven Parrino.

The result (or at least one result) of his work is the fusion of the emotional content of Abstract Expressionism with the humor of Pop Art, the reprographic processes of the Pictures artists, and the nihilism of the 1970s punk music scene.

In this series, then, one of Germany's most important living artists marries the nihilism of his youth — visible in his superb Sixties drawings and prints currently at the British Museum — with a fearless joy in painting.

declares the headline of a 1970 review in the New York Times bemoaning «the cultural nihilism of Conceptual Art» in spite of its ability to keep «scoring points... [in] an art scene poisoned by the market mentality.»

It seems symptomatic of a broader reorientation in the pop - cultural landscape of early»90s Britain, away from the plaid - shirt nihilism of Generation X, towards a confident levity and engagement with a more localized pop sensibility — a loss of interest in the US as locus of artistic innovation.

As well as pioneering the use of computers to design sculptures in the late 1960s, during the first part of his career Mallary produced grungy assemblage sculptures and expressionist paintings, which merged the nihilism of continental existentialist thinking with the irreverence of Neo-Dada.

And there was certainly a time, not so long ago, when I was also a fully paid - up McKeever Believer: his seriousness, his commitment to the act of painting, and the complete absence from his work of what the American painter Gary Stephan has dubbed «visual sarcasm» — that is, the use of paint only in order to flaunt its supposed inadequacy and redundancy — made him seem like a bulwark against the insufferable smart - alec nihilism of Richard Prince, Wade Guyton, or Christopher Wool; and against the prevailing attitudes within the Higher Education establishment at which I both teach, and study on the MA programme, where the buzz - phrase on the Fine Art Critical Studies syllabus is «post-Making»; in other words, goodbye and good riddance to all that messy business with brushes and squeegees and welding torches, once and for all.

Breath of the Wild is a tremendous achievement, not just in its ability to effortlessly blend its systems and design choices in ways that feel like they should have been obvious to developers for years, but in its incredible storytelling which relies more on the density and variety of Hyrule and its people than it Read more about The Beautiful Nihilism of Breath of the Wild -LSB-...]

How sharply Egan delineates the «byzantine calculus» inherent in underworld alliances; how powerfully she evokes the glory and perils of nature and the utter nihilism of erotic desire.

Kim Kardashian West here provides us with an existential black hole that the transcendental nihilism of a Ray Brassier can only dream of evoking (in fact, I find it interesting that on pages 256 - 257, somewhere a little past the book's halfway point, we are provided with two pages that have no words or pictures at all, pages that are completely black: it is as if this is symbolic of the black hole at the center of Western society / civilization, with the selfies orbiting it like husks of dead galaxies).

There's a pretty good twist at the end, and Ray Liotta occasionally pops in to remind you that you really should be watching Goodfellas instead, but these are petty compensations for seeing a film that more readily recalls the easy reductive nihilism of that asshole frat - boy favorite, The Boondock Saints.

The climactic shoot - out registers the nihilism of the gangsters» lives, but To distances himself from it, staging it in the time it takes a soda can to fall to the floor in slow motion; the viewer is encouraged to step back from the bloodshed and reflect on how rapidly everything can change.

There is the consideration that the Oscars aren't what they were in 2007, when critically adored fare aligned with Academy favorites, and a curio like the saga of Daniel Plainview could go toe - to - toe with the elliptical nihilism of No Country for Old Men.

It may be wishful thinking, but the global nihilism of his earlier projects now seems mere prelude to a surprisingly poignant meditation on fame and its lingering aftereffects.

The Butterfly Effect plays out as something of a gratifyingly appalling version of the true consequences of Bruce Almighty, though its too - rosy conclusion, the thing that unravels the misanthropic abyss of the picture, submarines the nihilism of what's come before.

Ghost is very much a film of its time, just as the also - Rubin - scripted Jacob's Ladder, from the same year, pinged off the cultural climate in another real, essential way by predicting not the death of the Eighties, but the transformation of the aggressive Eisenhower delusions of Reagan's voodoo cowboy foreign policy into the «history will teach us nothing» nihilism of the fast - digitizing, Luddite, Born - Again Nineties.

I also loved the punk rock nihilism of Buzzard — another movie about escalating disasters — and Spike Lee's heedlessly over-the-top Chi - Raq, a sex comedy about gun violence that I'd argue is the most vital film of the year.

The voice of its outrage is married to the nihilism of the modern age.

It's the most scabrous, uncompromised work from Billy Wilder, who never made a movie that wasn't kind of an asshole; and never made a movie that didn't reflect the essential nihilism of his worldview.

If there's humour to be found in it, it's of a much less sophisticated variety than the deadpan nihilism of the first few Friday the 13th flicks.

Sharing the rather grim nihilism of his angriest late period films, Deconstructing Harry and Celebrity, Anything Else is singular in Allen's canon for its almost total lack of charm or empathy.

Nevertheless there has been a discernible change in Leigh's work since his last dysfunctional - family opus, Life Is Sweet — a change well described by Australian critic Adrian Martin in a recent letter to me: «I think that as a certain angry anti-Thatcher 80s politics has drained from Leigh's work, he has gravitated to either the bombastic nihilism of Naked (a film I have incredibly mixed feelings about) or the soft - heartedness of Secrets and Lies.»

And Haneke, as ever, tucks his usual tricks in the margins: an uncanny dream sequence provides an excuse for his trademark shock - horror; a last - act gesture of violence dresses the nihilism of The Piano Teacher's self - flagellation up as something superficially humane; and, to quote Fernando F. Croce, his style is «so not - a-hair-out-of-place suffocating that even a lost pigeon's flapping wings [seem] too immaculately choreographed.»

Akin's sense of helplessness borders on nihilism of the sort that makes vigilante action seem the most reliable recourse.

And that aversion to objective truth is eating away at the left as well, with a whole generation now convinced of the despairing nihilism of Michel Foucault's philosophy — basically that our only truths are personal ones dependent on our place in time and power structures.

But it may also be the case, perversely enough, that it was in part the inexpungible stain of his involvement in such absolute evil that forced him to contemplate the nihilism of his age with such untiring persistence.

From the surrounding European politics to the nihilism of the satirist, Karl Kraus and the early philosophical stirrings of the great Wittgenstein, the signs of the end of the age were all around.

In fact, the school is home to a large, though shrinking, group of people who hold traditional Catholic beliefs on specific issues such as abortion and euthanasia, but who at the same time hold many beliefs about ethics that are indistinguishable from the subjectivism, relativism, emotivism, and nihilism of secular America.

But there is another, more uncomfortable assertion we should also be willing to make: that humanity could not have passed from the devotions of antiquity to those of modernity but for the force of Christianity in history, and so — as a matter of historical fact — Christianity, with its cry of «no other god,» is in part responsible for the nihilism of our culture.

In the West a parallel to the cosmic nihilism of the Gnostics is found in Nietzsche.

This «crisis» in Camus» position is characterized by Hans Jonas who, comparing the nihilism of existentialist thought to that of Gnosticism, states:

In philosophy the pessimism of Schopenhauer and the nihilism of Nietzsche have triumphed in a dominating existentialism.

But it was also the nihilism of my 20s that I wanted to keep buried, that part of my life that felt more like an archeological dig than a personal story.

(The so - called nihilism of Joel and Ethan Coen might be understood as a related phenomenon.)

That thought, as Louis Menand shows, was a cause of the moral nihilism of our pragmatism and Social Darwinism etc..

The authors paint a picture of incredibly wholesome youths who will correct the narcissism and nihilism of their Boomer parents.

In a thematic introductory sentence, he states that «the claim to the exclusive status of being an owed victim constitutes one of the great moral nihilisms of this century.»

In this sense, the genealogy of minimalism over the past forty years is that of a restrained optimism in the wake of modernism's failed dogmatism, and diligence in response to the vague nihilisms of postmodernism — an embrace of contingency, but a strong belief in the continuation of a distinct practice of art.

Not exact matches

The punks and slackers and devotees of hip - hop — rage, angst, nihilism, withdrawal — arose within the long stagnation that lasted from the early»70s to the early»90s.

And Micah Watson (of Union in Jackson, TN) used THE UNDERGROUND MAN together with the psychologically penetrating recent films YOUNG ADULT and UP IN THE AIR to illuminate the phenomenon of (obsessional) AMERICAN NIHILISM.

Whatever the intended theme of Suburbicon, the end result is a heaping plate of nihilism.

As Catholics become more and more concerned with their personal identity, the ideals and morals of the Universal Church begin to disintegrate when faced with the «subjectivism, relativism, emotivism, and nihilism so much in fashion in Western democracies today.»

Deneen's immediate source for the Founding = Locke = THE FEDERALIST = individualistic techno - nihilism is what Paul Seaton astutely called the anti-Founderism of his brilliant and wonderful teacher Carey McWilliams.

This was the «liberating» discovery of postmodern philosophy (that delirious season of festive nihilism): Having forsaken its fiduciary ground, reason becomes pure positing, sheer assertion, jouissance.

The logical conclusion of atheism is a sort of self destructive nihilism.