Poignant issues of technology, economic and societal collapse, environmental disaster and existential philosophy are explored under the guise of a fantastical journey through the deserts of our neighbor planet.
Inspired by Japanese pop culture, hyper-colored, starry-eyed portraits juxtapose dark themes of horror and loneliness in artist Hikari Shimoda's two series on Chernobyl, the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and existential anxiety, Whereabouts of God and Children of This Planet.
It's the games' nonchalant indifference in the face of disaster that proves to be the existential crisis blowing up in your face.
Violent extremism is spreading, poverty and despair are pervasive, fear, uncertainty, and hopelessness reign, and existential threats such as nuclear proliferation and ominous environmental disasters are looming.
The animals' existential angst – the dubious gift of speech and even poetry – ends in disaster and violence, as a kind of canine Lord of the Flies via Animal Farm, using animals to point out human failings.
Moreover, the failure to completely appreciate the immediate and existential nature of this threat, which justifies seemingly immoral actions in response, would invite disaster.
Now 36, he has returned with an album full of spare and melancholy songs about love, forgiveness, healing after disaster and looking back at misspent youth, all served with a dash of existential angst.
Indeed, this notion may be why the Dalai Lama was early to grasp the existential and political challenges of globalized human existence, decades before they were underlined by the disasters of climate change.
But Larry's season was plagued by health issues and existential angst that led to a falling out with Pistons management and the image-damaging 23-win disaster with Isiah Thomas's Knicks in 2005-6.
The "disaster" described by the patient may be only an unexpected experience that requires an intense existential implication for which this person does not feel prepared.
