The end result features four minutes of digitally-deconstructed images and rhythmic video synthesis, and hopes to illustrate, as MECHANIMAL explained to VICE earlier this year, a "portrait of the urban landscapes of the post-modern world and its inherent chaos, nihilism, unfulfilled desires, and the economic decadence surrounding this scenario".
In his great 1946 essay on "Politics and the English Language", Orwell is clear that linguistic degeneration is both the product and the generator of economic and political decadence.
Flitting provocatively from topic to topic, Mr. Harford explains why gargantuan executive salaries make sense, although not in the way one might expect, and why a booming service economy indicates economic sophistication, not decadence.
Islamic extremists may see the US as a source of moral decadence and economic exploitation, but France is seen as an atheist power which is both defending western ideals such as human rights, free speech and democracy and, in the eyes of jihadis, trying to impose them on the Islamic world.
The New York Times columnist Ross Douthat laments the "cultural decadence" of such economic considerations even as he acknowledges their relevance.
Francesco (1678 1727), son of Ranuccio II and his successor in 1694, attempted to save the fortunes of the state and of the dynasty, now in utter decadence, by his economic and diplomatic initiative, but his only important success was the marriage of his niece Elisabetta (see Isabella) to Philip V of Spain in 1714, which enabled him to pursue a plan for an anti-Austrian league in Italy.
The song explores themes of wealth, decadence and the economic stature in the US.
A lawyer with minimal understanding of development economics and drenched in decadence and corruption, Marcos was no Park or Lee when it came to economic development.
The second group agreed with Matt Yglesias, who praised my focus on the levers that policymakers could use to make life easier for would-be parents while rolling his eyes at my concluding paragraph's suggestion that cultural decadence as well as economic incentives might have something to do with why so many rich societies aren't reproducing themselves.
Decadence weekend is a huge economic driver in the city, giving an Isaac-weary service industry a guaranteed boost.
On the other hand, active aging as a policy framework constitutes a feasible alternative for substituting the current model, which visualizes the elderly adult as a sickly being and one in decadence, without the possibility of economic and social development.
