Less sophisticated critics decried Columbia's "self-centered Care Bears"; sharper observers objected to how the trigger-warning conversation disguised the larger preoccupations of the text, veiling ethical questions of force and consent in the language of personal harm.
The trigger-warning debate may, by comparison, seem esoteric; but both it and #YesAllWomen express a larger cultural preoccupation with achieving safety, and a fear of living in its absence.
But it was also part of a larger U.S. preoccupation that China's "peaceful rise" had taken a martial turn.
Chua's larger historical preoccupations, as she suggests, arise from her own biography.
Another big, new preoccupation?
Those deaths have caused shock and soul-searching in a usually balmy capital where homelessness mostly used to seem like a preoccupation of larger, harsher cities like New York or Moscow.
Kiesler's preoccupation with large, mythical themes reached a climax with the one extant example of his built work, the Shrine of the Book.
Then "Playboy Magazine" introduced a nude Marilyn Monroe and undressed Bridget Bardot, Jane Mansfield, Raquel Welch, etc., permanently inscribing the American male preoccupation with large naked breasts.
"We've moved in the direction of things becoming interpreted at a larger scale rather than a preoccupation with the dormouse or the badger or the fox... starting to look into the ecosystem".
