Such had been Baudrillard's name for the defining problem of the age since the 1970s, when he wrote that the Marxian problem of class struggle had been replaced, in the "post-industrial" era, with the problem of simulation.
by Ralph Benko It is heartening that prominent civic leaders recently have tackled what we at LivingRoomConversations.org (and others) have called the defining problem of the politics of our era: negative partisanship.
Born with a painful jaw deformity that worsened considerably during her teen years, Molly Phelan faced what many consider the defining problem of the managed health care age: She needed treatment, but her plan refused to cover it.
They at least are debating calmly and intelligently, without rhetoric or cliché, whether full unemployment or income inequality is the defining problem of the age; and they are exploring what exactly is the nature of the relationship between wage dispersal and job creation.
Mark Goldring, Oxfam's chief executive, said: "Inequality is one of the defining problems of our age.
And we must address the two defining problems of our time, inequality and climate change.
"The President is convinced that this is the defining problem of our age and he's not the only one," Putnam told me.
"The President is convinced that this is the defining problem of our age — and he's not the only one," Putnam told me.
Digital overload may be the defining problem of today's workplace.
