Sentences with phrase «very bourgeois culture»

Despite Koons» infamous reputation for banality, Bigman reminds us that much of his work involves sophisticated critiques of the very bourgeois culture it purportedly celebrates.

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As a college professor, I've been blessed by living in abundance with very little real work, but I haven't used my leisure to be a voracious consumer of French culture, as our libertarians or bourgeois bohemians might have predicted.
Twenty years ago, when Hansen of GISS (Goddard Institute of Space Science) first resorted to duckspeak («warm is cold,» etc.), Michael Crighton noted: «Freeze or fry, the enemy is always free - market entrepreneurial capitalism, the solution is always bureaucratic State socialism» — that is, wastrel Luddite modes consciously aiming to blast individualist bourgeois consumer culture at its very roots.
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