Sentences with phrase «of cultural alienation»

The artist's work is committed to a personal and universal exploration of cultural alienation.

This personal and moving short film revolves around the themes of cultural alienation, abuse and the contrast between mythological greenlandic nature and western urban culture.

He becomes the symbol of a double dilemma: of cultural alienation and of rejection by his adopted land.

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Thus understood, the doctrine of radical evil can furnish a receptive structure for new figures of alienation besides the speculative illusion or even the desire for consolation — of alienation in the cultural powers, such as the church and the state; it is indeed at the heart of these powers that a falsified expression of the synthesis can take place; when Kant speaks of «servile faith,» of «false cult,» of a «false Church,» he completes at the same time his theory of radical evil.

In this case personal suffering or social alienation has already provided distance from normative cultural interpretations (the state of fusion).

Negation is here an essential objectification and hence distancing of oneself from prevailing cultural and intrapsychic images and preunderstandings, and consequently a dialectical moment of necessary alienation on the way to freedom and truth.

Thus pattern maintenance is less characteristic of their life than the obliteration of cultural pattern, and integration less a present reality than its opposite, alienation.

For the marginal societies of the world, therefore, the four functions of Parsons are much less achievements than the distant intentions of a grinding struggle to ameliorate cultural amnesia, alienation, poverty, and oppression.

I believe that the Christian contribution to a «secular» concept of humanity as essentially a Community of Persons can be best made if we maintain the message of the gospel that God became incarnate in the Person of Jesus Christ to overcome the alienation of humanity from God and to create a Koinonia in Christ around the Eucharist, a Community of divine forgiveness and mutual forgiveness acknowledging Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, transcending all religious cultural and ideological divisions with a mission to build a wider Secular Koinonia of mutual forgiveness and justice among the peoples of the world, as witness to the ultimate goal of creation, namely the Kingdom of God.

They point to other destructive aspects of television that have been stressed by television researchers and theorists; the privatization of experience at the expense of family and social interaction and rela - tionships; (33) the promotion of fear as the appropriate attitude to life: (34) television's cultural levelling effects which blur local, regional, and national differences and impose a distorted and primarily free - enterprise, competitive and capitalistic picture of events and their significance; (35) television's suppression of social dialogue; (36) its distorted and exploitative presentation of certain social groups: (37) the increasing alienation felt by most viewers in relation to this central means of social communication; (38) and its negative effects on the development of the full range of human potential.

This inner poisoning of life... can not... be overcome simply by victory over economic need, political oppression, cultural alienation and the ecological crisis... The absence of meaning and the corresponding consequences of an ossified and absurd life are described in theological terms as godforsakenness... Faith becomes hope for significant fulfillment.

In the cultural dimension of life, liberation from the vicious circle of alienation means identity in the recognition of others.

After describing the vicious circles of poverty, of force, of racial and cultural alienation, of the industrial pollution of nature and of senselessness and godforsakenness, he proceeds to state what liberation from these involves.

The alienation of the Western powers from their cultural and religious roots, and from their consequent sense of historical mission, also played a part in the decolonization movement following World War II.

I noted how the plot of common story deals with the threats of cultural amnesia, oppression, alienation, and death.

As extensive examples show even in mature democracies, the mere recognition of civil liberties does not protect against various forms of social marginalization and cultural alienation.

This poignant tale of grief, loss and societal alienation is directed with warmth and sensitivity by Sebastian Lelio, and is both powerful cultural statement and emotionally involving human drama.

A haunted miasma of youthful alienation, suburban malaise, cosmic upheaval and 1980s pop - cultural infatuation, writer - director Richard Kelly's captivatingly strange 2001 debut plays more than ever like its own suspended - in - time artifact.

There are four common stages of the cultural adjustment process: arrival, reality, negotiation / alienation and the integration / marginalization phase.

These include the pressures of modernization, cultural, social and political crises, and the alienation of young people living in foreign societies.

1987 1987 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue) Perverted by Language, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Greenvale, NY (curated by Robert Nickas, catalogue) Reconstruct / Deconstruct, John Gibson Gallery, New York (curated by Robert Nickas, catalogue) Extreme Order: Cemin, Gober, Halley, Lemieux, Steinbach, Lia Rumma Gallery, Naples (curated by Collins & Milazzo, brochure) Primary Structures, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago (curated by Robert Nickas) Avant - Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (catalogue) Paint — Film, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York Post-Abstract Abstraction, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (curated by Eugene Schwartz, catalogue) NY Art Now: The Saatchi Collection, Saatchi Gallery, London (catalogue) Generations of Geometry, Whitney Museum of American Art at The Equitable Center, New York Similia / Dissimilia, Columbia University Art Gallery, New York; travelled to Sonnabend Gallery and Leo Castelli Gallery, New York; Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany (curated by Rainer Crone, catalogue) The Castle, documenta 8, Kassel, Germany (curated by Group Material) Reinhard Onnasch Galerie, Berlin (catalogue) Anti-Baudrillard, White Columns, New York (curated by Group Material) Recent Tendencies in Black and White, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (curated by Jerry Saltz, catalogue) Terrae Motus, Grand Palais, Paris (catalogue) The Beauty of Circumstance, Josh Baer Gallery, New York (catalogue) New York Now, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (catalogue) 1986 Admired Work, John Weber Gallery, New York Spiritual America, CEPA Galleries, Buffalo, NY (catalogue); travelled to Stavanger Faste Galleri, Stavanger, Norway (curated by Collins & Milazzo) New New York, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH Signs of Painting, Metro Pictures, New York, and Donald Young Gallery, Chicago Painting and Sculpture Today 1986, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN (catalogue) Paravision II, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (curated by Collins & Milazzo) Political Geometries: on the Meaning of Alienation, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York (catalogue) Post Pop, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles Tableaux Abstraits, Villa Arson, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France (catalogue) Europa / Amerika, Ludwig Köln Museum, Cologne, Germany (catalogue) End Game: Reference and Simulation in Recent Painting and Sculpture, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (curated by David Joselit and Elisabeth Sussman, catalogue) Ashley Bickerton, Peter Halley, Jeff Koons, Meyer Vaisman, Sonnabend Gallery, New York The Hidden Surface, Middendorf Gallery, Washington, DC Geometry Now, Craig Cornelius Gallery, New York Surfboards, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles Art and Its Double: A New York Perspective (El arte y su doble), Centre Cultural de la Funcacio Caixa de Pensions, Madrid; travelled to Fundación Caja de Pensions, Barcelona (catalogue) Rooted Rhetoric, Castel Dell «Ovo, Naples (catalogue)

African people and their cultural products have been commoditized for over 500 years, resulting in a worldwide condition of alienation between labor and its outcomes; cultural production is affective, or emotional, labor.

Using a sharp palette of irony and humour always gravitated towards different social situations dealing with elusive experiences and cultural alienation.

The result is a wide range of photographs that both reflect out onto the cultural and consumerist race that is now fueling the Emirates, while at the same time subtly hinting at the experience of alienation amid consumerist proliferation.

Inspired by lived experience, topics in her artwork include environmental illness, climate change, unemployment, the alienation of consumer culture, nuclear nightmares, body hate, cultural identity, visions for the future and global justice.

I would nominate this collaborative approach to abstract art as being perhaps one of the most necessary antidotes to overcoming the cultural alienation outlined at the beginning of this essay.

Homelands cuts to the heart of cultural relations in the 21st century, exploring ideas of belonging and alienation, possession and loss, public histories and personal memories, nostalgic geographies and the intangible terrains of the imaginary.

Cheng's feelings as an outsider to New York and American culture at large play out upon its physical edge, where the experience of urban and cultural alienation are described via landscapes of post-industrial abandon.

Trade, and movement of people across borders, has caused tension between cultural cohesion and alienation of neighbouring nationals.

The artist, writer, and media theorist (and former Rhizome editor and curator) continues her interdisciplinary methodology with Getting Ready — which invokes «the anxiety of preparation for public engagement and exploring the degrees to which online participation soothes or exacerbates social alienation» — and touches on themes that have become staples in her work, like the politics of participation, gender theory, and the cultural history of technology.

Abstract Expressionism came out of the post-war experience of alienation (not just in a social sense, but one that was political and cultural as well).

The artists in the exhibition explore issues of the global circulation of culture and cultural producers, alongside of issues of alienation from the ideas of «home.»

Freud viewed alienation as the by - product of a cultural divorce between man and his natural impulses.

In video and in sculptural installations — works that employ banal consumer goods and pop cultural tropes — Da Corte takes on these topics and others, touching on issues of identity, alienation and instability.

Based on data from the European Social Survey for Austria, Belgium, France, Norway, and Switzerland, three different sets of explanations are tested: (1) hypotheses stressing economic determinants, that is, the fear of wage pressure and competition over welfare benefits; (2) hypotheses emphasizing cultural determinants, that is, the perception of immigration as a threat to national identity; and (3) hypotheses focusing on social alienation, that is, dissatisfaction with the way the country's democracy works and the nonintegration into intermediary networks (trade unions).

In addition, little knowledge is available on the effect of parenting support programmes delivered to immigrant parents.24 The few studies available have mostly shown little or no improvement in the mental health of immigrant parents25 26 or even poorer outcomes for immigrant families27 and families with low socioeconomic status.28 Scarcity of studies in this area may simply because few immigrant parents participate in such programmes.24 Several studies have reported difficulties in recruiting and retaining immigrant parents in parenting support programmes.29 30 Factors such as belonging to an ethnic minority, low socioeconomic status, practical aspects or experienced alienation and discrimination all contribute to low participation.28 31 Other studies have demonstrated that low participation and a high dropout rate of immigrant parents are associated with a lack of cultural sensitivity in the intervention, poor information about the parenting programme and lack of trust towards professionals.24 A qualitative study conducted with Somali - born parents in Sweden showed that Somali parents experienced many societal challenges in the new country and in their parenting behaviours.

Social exclusion encompasses factors that limit the individual's ability to participate in the economic, social, cultural and political life of a culture, accompanied by alienation from mainstream society (Phipps & Curtis, 2001).