Anxiety about the place France occupies in a changing world; anxiety about whether it will manage to preserve the things it holds dear and that so many people feel make it France; and anxiety about the level of fear, frustration and disenchantment that found expression in a first-round vote of 18% for Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right Front National.
Add to this flattened world anxiety is the fact that "disruption," another new and accepted theme about one's working life, complicates the situation even further.
It's no wonder that among US college students – people getting their first real exposure to the real world – anxiety recently surpassed depression as the most common mental health diagnosis.
Instead, it riffs on the idea of scary thrills as an escape from real-world anxieties.
At a time when thrillers are shadowed by real-world anxieties, the implausibility and irrelevance of this movie, which amusingly imagines the C.I.A. as a supercompetetent, virtually omniscient operation, comes as something of a relief.
But the undead are returning with a vengeance, in part because they "personify real-world anxieties," said Michael Dylan Foster, an assistant professor in the department of folklore at Indiana University in Bloomington.
At a time when thrillers are shadowed by real-world anxieties, the implausibility and irrelevance of this movie, which amusingly imagines the C.I.A. as a supercompetent, virtually omniscient operation, comes as something of a relief.
At a time when thrillers are shadowed by real-world anxieties, the implausibility of this movie, which amusingly imagines the C.I.A. as a virtually omniscient operation, comes as something of a relief.
The result is a piece infused with musings on the speed of change, the switch from a tactile analogue world to a digital one, rising sea levels, increases in rainfall, and general end-of-the-world anxieties.
There is no obvious narrative or symbolic intention, but because Mr. Schramm uses the forms and materials of vernacular residential construction, his installation can't help but call to mind real-world anxieties about threats to our safety -- political, meteorological, seismic and otherwise.
