Sentences with phrase «social critique then»

If its gameplay systems and available interactions are as bold and progressive as its attempt at political and social critique then this has every chance to push the series back to the top of the open - world pyramid.

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Again, that fact doesn't obviate the option of (or indeed the need for) social critique; it just means that we can't reasonably roll our eyes at the very notion of a place like Hooters, and then merrily skip down to the neighbourhood bar where the waitresses wear short skirts and tube tops all summer.

But — and this is a huge qualifier — if that message of justification by God's undeserved love is preached apart from an unmasking of the actual power relations which have aggravated these feelings to the level of a social neurosis; if people are released from the rat race of upward mobility only privatistically, with no critique of the economic and social ideology that stimulates such desperate cravings; if people are liberated from a bad sense of themselves without any sense of mission to change the conditions that waste human beings in such a way, then justification by faith becomes a mystification of the actual power relations, and the Christian gospel is indeed the opiate of the masses.

Jaden Smith's been very candid about the annoyances and constant scrutiny he faces on the regular and his every move being photographed by paparazzi and then being posted on social media for millions to judge and critique his choices.

But South Korean visionary Bong Joon - ho juggles multiple tones and genres, stuffing a seriocomic family portrait down the gullet of a throwback kaiju movie, then dousing the whole thing in withering social critique.

Then it became full - manuscript critiques, deeper friendships with writers, broader social reach with readers through publishing.

A witty observer of the culture of his time, the Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini sought to produce, in his films and texts, a critique of the then ongoing social transformations in Italy and a record of certain cultural practices that, according to him, were disappearing.

If ArtClub 2000's works are a critique of the contrivance of social behaviour and cultural norms, then Fischli and Weiss's dramatic C - prints are an expression of the extremes of sentiment that contrived and conditioned behaviour often seeks to repress.

It's no surprise, then, that some painters increasingly quote the aesthetics of comic books and science fiction for the imaginative «world - building» and social critique these forms offer.