Instead of hoping in vain that the mass shooting onslaught might relent, Americans should reflect on what it means that this is what we consider merciful when "just" 29 people are wounded and four more killed in one week's worth of mass gun violence.
For they alone have the ability (if we do not continue to corrupt them) to withstand the onslaught of mass media and the multitude of false gods.
I predict that there will be more ethnically targeted onslaught, more mass rape, more displacements and more bombings.
Irony of ironies: the holy ground on which Adorno withstood the onslaught of mass culture was, in its own small way, part of the military-industrial complex.
A key member of the Pictures generation, Goldstein responded to the increasing onslaught of mass media by appropriating its imagery in his films (brief, crystalline vignettes that include a text being read aloud as the paper burns to a crisp) and paintings (reproductions of lightning strikes, meteor showers, and bombs).
Where the best Pop Art was a complex and nuanced response to the prospect of culture devolving into kitsch — that is, it was hard to tell whether artists were celebrating or critiquing the onslaught of mass production and media culture — Mr. Dine's sculpture over the years has fallen largely into kitsch itself.
With the onslaught of mass surveillance technology in the 21st century, 2015 feels eerily similar to a noir film, with a kind of backseat paranoia that we're constantly being watched.
Acropolis withdraws to the planet Hargenteen where the TCAF is massing against ADAN's onslaught.
In the 10 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union and its ruling Communist Party, Russian culture has been limping along, surviving such indignities as shrunken budgets, distressed buildings and the onslaught of Western mass culture.
On the one hand, the historic centres and the "good lounges" of the cities suffering the "cultural" onslaught of a mass tourism that moves continuously on routes of sky, land and sea strongly infrastructured and expertly managed by business lobbies.
