On Junger's view, life in America is hollow and atomized.
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This tension explains the department's atomized and seemingly fragmented nature.
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This economic man is rational, selfish, profit-seeking, isolated, atomized, measured.
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And this is exactly the atomized mentality that is corroding America.
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We're sort of living in this atomized age of music consumption.
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The culture of the atomized individual has brought us to the brink.
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The city, today, is the seat of an atomized new private order.
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Everyone is atomized into individuals, and there's no way of going back.
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The opposition to Iran's clerical government is atomized, with no clear recognized leader.
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Western societies have become more socially atomized and more riven by identity politics.
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We all experience the world as atomized beings, defined by our own pasts.
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Second, the social structure has atomized and frayed, especially among the less educated.
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We were, instead, an atomized "consumer society" defined almost exclusively by commercial interests.
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It also is a new marker of that increasingly atomized American achievement: fame.
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Its atomized story distills a complex journey into the bodies of Derek and Danny.
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A healthy nation isn't just an atomized mass of individual economic and legal units.
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How can you mass produce something that contends with such an intimate, atomized experience?
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"Wait, you're not—" I atomized the kibe's head before it could blow my gaff.
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There wasn't a "stay in your lane" mentality and of art disciplines being atomized.
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We live in an atomized, individualistic society in which most people have competing identities.
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"The very way our job is structured keeps us siloed and atomized," they told us.
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What each group shares is a fear of the future, an atomized life spent forever alone.
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London is sprawling and atomized, but in NYC everyone is living on top of each other.
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Society came to be seen as an atomized collection of individual economic units pursuing self-interest.
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Natural gas, it turned out, could be extracted from the atomized rubble, but the gas was radioactive.
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Amateurs are flooding the internet; piracy has addled the once-dominant studios; production has atomized and scattered.
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A lot of the social justice movements are atomized: There's too much competition, too much in-fighting.
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"We think it is highly unlikely that the Lunar Library was atomized in the impact," writes the team.
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Teleflex Medical has received complaints that the affected lots produced a straight stream instead of an atomized spray.
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It's based on the fact that digital information is atomized into 1s and 0s with no intrinsic truth.
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The advent of streaming atomized the entertainment and media ecosystem in a way that can suck for audiences.
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Winkfield's world is oddly atomized: it is made of parts joined to other parts to make unlikely gatherings.
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When I see a roach in my house, I freak out and want it atomized on the spot.
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But harassment can come in diffuse form—atomized comments here and there that add up to a hostile atmosphere.
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In an atomized world of stationary social media, the circus offers an unmediated, kinetic community experiences in real time.
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Legions among us suffer from the anomie and malaise of modernity, from the discontents of an increasingly atomized society.
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But rather than celebrate our mostly successful attempt at the "melting pot," we have atomized society into identity groups.
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The biggest impact of this is that content that has been bundled together within a site is now atomized.
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America's opioid crisis is not in the pills, it's in the desperate, atomized circumstances that surround and spread them.
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Afghanistan's ethnic diversity, though once stable, has provided another set of fault lines along which the country has atomized.
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Storytelling looks past all the interlocking motions of society in favor of the personal, the private, the atomized view.
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People's lives are atomized and insular, with only the next happy hour or marriage as a salve to despair.
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Whether it's their opinions or experiences, in our increasingly atomized lives, people are looking to technology for connection and participation.
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Well, a decent minimum wage will help people who do have atomized jobs, and discourage a race to the bottom.
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The upside is that, in our atomized world, the sublime and the ridiculous can be praised on their own merits.
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It has landed as the full legitimization of cultural homogenization, techno-militarism and life inside the atomized logic of corporatism.
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Working people wind up more atomized from one another, lacking a common location and language to deal with their problems.
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Voters are treated as atomized participants in the democratic process, so that systemic disenfranchisement can be dismissed as mere supposition.
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The lesson of The Plague is that we should see ourselves as members of a community, not as atomized actors.
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" Putting a finer point on it, he tells the Vice correspondent Elle Reeve, "People realize they are not atomized individuals.
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Strain into a chilled coupe, and garnish with atomized Green Chartreuse (or rinse the glass with Chartreuse before adding the drink).
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We can see The OA as part of a new genre of TV sci-fi that evangelizes against our atomized world.
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But Kauffman sees the end of that decade as a kind of meteor strike that left radicalism atomized, chaotic, and fractured.
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"The city is atomized," says Sarwar Jahan, a professor of urban and regional planning at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.
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Your bedroom—white-walled, wooden-floored—smells of patchouli, sandalwood, and the atomized zing of a thousand long and lusty nights.
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When content is atomized and accessed far from the publisher's site, the content itself must act as an expression of brand.
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Atomized and easily manipulated by greed, fear, and hate, we are losing faith in the very idea of a greater good.
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Planes carrying nukes, the terrifying sound of life atomized into static noise: "Unexploded Ordnances (UXO)" feels very much of the minute.
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There should be more solidarity between feminists and other groups who feel marginalized, but our society is too atomized for that.
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Simply, sound waves are made to smash into liquids, with the result being those liquids shattered (atomized) into many tiny droplets.
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Her story perfectly encapsulates what a burden our atomized food culture can be: Welcome to the United States of Divided Dinner Tables.
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Fictions are peddled and contested through the news cycle, disinformation has destabilized democracies, and social media has simultaneously connected and atomized communities.
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Their exchanges fit together as poorly as pieces from two entirely different puzzles, revealing just how atomized these procedural personalities really are.
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"Much more than the United States, which is an atomized country, Mexicans see themselves as part of groups, especially family groups," he said.
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Amazon, he says, is hundreds of small, decentralized, atomized teams sitting on top of standardized common internal systems, leading to almost infinite scalability.
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Picture an amalgam of Marianne Williamson and Hugo Chávez, a charismatic ideologue able to speak to the spiritual hunger of lonely, atomized masses.
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Because Batman v Superman is an atomized mess of a story, with loopy shortcuts, confounding red herrings and overblown dialogue at every turn.
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Native advertising, the overladen vehicle upon which so many of publishers hopes now rest, faces the same challenges in an atomized content world.
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Dr. Eisenberg's verse made him a cult figure in the lively, atomized, fiercely opinionated parallel universe of The New York Times's online commenters.
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But unionized manufacturing work gave a sense of community and meaning that more atomized, more modern, more service-based work struggles to do.
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There is no room for sustained contemplation and little interest in public morality; everything collapses down to the level of the atomized individual.
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Silicon Valley shower startup Nebia is releasing a cheaper, updated version of its Nebia Spa Shower, which uses atomized water droplets to conserve water.
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Instead, Lady Bird's path to growing up and self-acceptance runs right through the most atomized, individualist understanding of one's relationship to the world.
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Aubrey Cattell, Adobe's head of next generation products, says Spark is a kind of "next-gen Photoshop," with "atomized apps" within one larger platform.
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The millennial generation seems atomized but relatively well-behaved, their passions channeled into virtual realms (Twitter fights, video games, porn) rather than the streets.
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But they maintain a consistently cool veneer, lacking the atomized violence of the music of Babbitt's European counterpart Pierre Boulez, who died on Jan. 5.
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At Van Doren Waxter, Jackie Saccoccio's latest abstractions effervesce more than ever with dots and carefully directed drips, suggesting windows onto worlds of atomized color.
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If you have 60 years of radical individualism and ruthless meritocracy, you're going to end up with a society that is atomized, distrustful and divided.
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Atomized, solitary music-making reflects broader cultural currents: a ruthlessly individualistic winner-take-all economy; the troll onslaught of social media; siloed and tribalized politics.
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He also said that the idea of a 'sweatshop' where workers conducted repetitive and atomized tasks could just as well be translated into the digital sphere.
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So when Warren turned her attention on Thursday to the atomized American workplace and what I have called the 1099 economy, it was a huge moment.
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The gap between worker productivity and worker compensation has been a direct result of the atomized workplace, of the great risk shift from employer to employee.
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"The incoming administration will have limited support in an atomized Congress, raising the risks for continued political gridlock," Fitch Director Carlos Morales said in a statement.
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But little has penetrated the industry's operations, and as a workforce that cuts across class from the one percent to the working-poor, models remain atomized.
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You're battling hackneyed enemy archetypes using likewise-archetypal weapons, but damn if these rooms don't fly apart into clouds of destroyed furniture, gunsmoke, and atomized concrete.
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It's definitely a terrific experience for distribution of content, when you think about tweet and re-tweet, immediately getting out there in atomized pieces, breaking news.
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Each installation in the series became an evisceration of contemporary America: Each film was an anti-consumerist screed against a society atomized by greed, corporations, and prejudices.
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We've been here before There are moments -- even in our polarized and atomized political culture -- that can bring people together and offer the promise of positive transformation.
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South Koreans' changing perception of dogs can be attributed to multiple factors, but several experts stressed the need for companionship in an increasingly competitive and atomized society.
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But ISIS has reverted to its insurgent roots — an atomized, clandestine network of cells with a decentralized chain of command, Western and Middle Eastern counterterrorism officials said.
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In an era of atomized programming, their soundtracks — which range from the Beatles and Dolly Parton to Nicki Minaj and Imagine Dragons — aim for big-tent appeal.
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"If the Left does not get its acts together it will be atomized and marginalized for 20 years," Socialist Party leader Jean-Christophe Cambadelis told LCI television.
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Japan's aging, dying, atomized present is one version of our future — and a not-so-distant one, already visible in late-middle-age despair and elder exploitation.
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Maybe it's quixotic to say that the world would be less atomized and more compassionate if everyone meditated and took psychedelics, but that doesn't make it untrue.
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Official news broadcasts that continually play on TVs and radios in the background contrast sharply with the atomized vacuity displayed by a number of the movie's characters.
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And he's taken that with him as founder and CEO of Atomized, a company that provides a cloud-based visual content calendar platform to marketing and advertising departments.
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"The chaotic fervor and ideation going on all over the place on various forums and social media platforms meant ideas were atomized and difficult to capture," he said.
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In a networked age that has simultaneously left people more atomized than ever, it is hard to tell if he is an anomaly of modern life or its apotheosis.
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If you accept, as Lippmann does, that the public is atomized and permanently cut off from the conversation about public affairs, then you've undercut the very possibility of democracy.
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Ask any long-term Londoner and they'll likely tell you that the British capital is a far more atomized place than it was 20 — or even five — years ago.
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I know I wonder if we've become too atomized and too fractured to sustain the liberal democratic culture that Tocqueville wrote about and which has made this country possible.
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People stare mostly at content from their friends or their favorite publishers in a vertical feed, mostly in some app, and the content itself is "atomized" in that feed.
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But tech work may get there even sooner, as technology and lack of physical demands allow, and thus incentivize, bosses to scour the globe for the cheapest, most atomized workers.
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We're hopelessly atomized, urged on to leave our friends and family behind every few years to get a little extra money for a little extra house and a little extra car.
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In a time where we are atomized and polarized, where our political choices are reduced to checking a box at election time, people come together to be political, in public, together.
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Importantly, the core building blocks of the content experience change: smart content consists of atomized modular elements that can be modified, updated, remixed, replaced, omitted and activated based on varying rules.
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In time, it might even encourage more civilized political discourse in this atomized land, by putting young people in proximity to those with roots in different ways of life and thinking.
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So is a self-portrait by Jack Whitten, remarkable for being all but abstract: an explosion of mosaiclike squares of blue and white color on a black ground — pure, atomized energy.
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Only when a driver spins out or, more often, when several take simultaneous pit breaks does the shape become atomized and the roar of pack-passage separate into discrete engine sounds.
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Although the opposition to Iran's clerical government is atomized, with no clear recognized leader, some of the demonstrators have chanted slogans in favor of Pahlavi's grandfather, Reza Shah, breaking a longstanding taboo.
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It's become a central part of nearly every smartphone and mobile platform, even without getting into parallel formats like Snapchat and Instagram Stories, which are basically video calls atomized into shareable media.
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And two, I think this was misguided, but it was an attempt to sort of recreate the magazine business, or to save the magazine business, which was already sort of being atomized.
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Once the angry and disconsolate are no longer atomized, once it's been decided that something must be done, once they've made themselves into a weapon, that weapon might find out how it works.
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Watching these Russians snipe and complain in our own ditzy online-speak gives the lie to the nostalgic fantasy that people were better, kinder, and more "connected" before our atomized era of screens.
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The move by Brussels was just the most dramatic on a day full of evidence that European life was abruptly becoming more atomized and constrained than anything in Europe's modern history outside wartime.
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I wanted to give readers more of a narrative, to see behind-the-scenes at all the effort and emotion it takes to organize an atomized labor force, from a gig worker's perspective.
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It seems to me that Winters's interest in multifaceted structures, as in the cell in the largely red painting "Cell," reveals a proclivity for forms that are atomized or in a state of change.
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A machine is connected to a water tank and mounted on a flatbed truck and sprays atomized water -- in which liquid is broken up into smaller droplets -- up to 230 feet into the air.
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As an expression of our relationship with next-generation users' networks and media now, we can contribute our unfiltered personal bits to the whole — the atomized experiences laid out temporarily in always-moving chapters.
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Finally, at the risk of truly disappearing down a political culture rabbit hole, it's possible that American political life is simply too atomized and individualized for the main mechanisms of party coordination to work.
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But the patterns of news consumption we've adopted—mostly reading in silence, engaged in monogamous relationships with our devices—pull us away from the people we're actually with, and leave us more atomized and vulnerable.
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This is consistent with trends in cross-border work and globalization: In an atomized world, the individual is the core unit and will need to take her information with her, without reliance on third parties.
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And there are others, such as the sticks of fried cod that a server pointlessly snips in half with scissors and then spritzes with atomized yuzu juice, that are right at home at Hudson Yards.
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Therefore, here it comes, Kim Jong-un's Aphorism No. 63548-J: To the winner go the spoils, while the loser is bound to a kitchen chair in a bean field and atomized by cannon fire .
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Had the plane been at 8,000 feet when the dump occurred, the fuel would never have hit the schools because it would be atomized after leaving the wings, said CNN aviation safety analyst David Soucie.
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It's an essentially communitarian vision, arguing that liberalism (in the political philosophy sense, not the partisan one) is too focused on the "atomized" individual and not focused enough on building social ties that bind citizens together.
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These gals were sweet and coy at first, but soon their wardrobes exploded under some kind of atomized Warhol influence — faux fur, mini-dresses, plastic go-go boots, hot pink shirts with daisy prints, fishnet stockings.
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We already have the means to move around a lot of drunk people on a Friday night, one that doesn't depend on icy individuation or the relegation of large sectors of the population to atomized terror.
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"The process of a group of people coming together to take on this task really does forge friendships, build community spirits, particularly in a world where we're slightly atomized," said Tim Finch, director of the group.
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At a party, Mr. Boulez played his fiery, atomized Second Sonata; Copland responded by performing the severe Piano Variations, then two decades old, as if to declare that he had done that kind of thing first.
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What intellectuals need is the same as what everyone else needs: a society that prioritizes human flourishing over private profit, and strong political networks that guard public goods against the prophets of an atomized, high-tech future.
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"Accessing stuff from home is this sort of alienated, atomized way of being, as opposed to going down to your local, asking questions, getting recommendations, and seeing stuff that you would never think about seeing," says Martin.
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The organization that once staked out a self-proclaimed caliphate across Iraq and Syria has now metastasized into a more traditional terrorist group — an atomized, clandestine network of cells engaged in guerrilla attacks, bombings and targeted assassinations.
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Anyway, even beyond the specific and overdetermined wrongness of it, Bringing Us Together also seems like a wrong and unfair thing to ask of our sports, at this atomized and anomic and angry moment or really any other.
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Nearby a meticulous color wheel and tone study by Hilde Reindl, created as an assignment for a class taught by Klee, reflects the degree to which color was atomized into its component parts and studied in a clinical manner.
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In recent years, there has been a movement to replace these hoary old sports stories with an atomized landscape of numbers, stats and transactional analysis — and its adherents harbor a healthy amount of scorn for anyone who thinks differently.
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"Smartphones and social media are creating a society where people are radically atomized, and do not know how to interact with other people—not even their families," American Conservative columnist Rod Dreher declared in the piece Scarborough linked to.
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Or else a technocratic and secular liberalism may simply not be satisfying to a fragmented, atomized society; there may be a desire for a left-wing authoritarianism to bind what's been fragmented back together, in comradeship and common purpose.
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A less atomized America, an America where we rely on and help one another, an America that knows it can't wall itself off from the rest of the world — that is worth hoping for and, more importantly, fighting for.
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She stresses the primacy of the voice, the flesh and the communion of bodies in a room together over the atomized experience of listening to disembodied sound (while acknowledging new forms of intimacy introduced by the age of recording).
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Instead, it suggests the virulence of the classic American malaise: loneliness, the toxic by-product of freedom which generates ad-hoc, fragile communities among people who have escaped conventional backgrounds and who, after dreaming of cosmopolis, wake up atomized.
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Meanwhile, the failure of Western governments to deal with disasters, such as the refugee crisis and rampant inequality, has allowed reactionary actors to enter the world stage, manipulating the truth in order to keep their atomized citizens powerless, disunited, and confused.
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What was once one of the nation's densest neighborhoods is emptying out, as single people, often without children, reclaim and reunify buildings born as luxury housing more than a century ago, then atomized into flop houses, then reconstituted as apartments.
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Some of these notifications improvements have already appeared on Android, where Google has been quicker to spool out the possibilities of atomized interactions with content and distributed apps, something I'm convinced is the future of mobile (and publishing, but that's another story).
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And whenever I hear people saying, "Oh, we got to get the bundle back," it's people who are basically in the bundle business already, whether it's Brian Stelter at CNN or anybody else who sort of can't imagine the world being atomized.
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The British electorate was much more atomized, with the Brexit Party in first place with 30 percent of the vote, the Liberal Democrats second with just under 20 percent and then the Greens, Labour and the Conservatives clustered around 10 percent each.
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The magic of Trailer Park Boys is that somehow in their hands Sunnyvale becomes a kind of communitarian dreamland rather than an atomized nightmare—an alternative vision of America if the left-behind could manage to band together rather than spin and be torn apart.
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Placed beside similar shows that encourage their viewers to think about what it really means to be an individual in society—Westworld, Stranger Things—we can see The OA as part of a new genre of TV sci-fi that evangelizes against our atomized world.
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In the updated home for our modern, atomized Brady family, Grandma and Grandpa are in the formal living room watching traditional TV, while Mom and Dad are in the family room with Lifetime — they grew up wanting their MTV, so cable is their comfort zone.
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Instead, it sounds like the fantasy of techno-libertarians brought to fruition, where we're all forced to compete against one another for increasingly atomized work that provides little pay and no benefits, while facing a lack of job security when much of that work becomes automated.
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Over the last couple of decades, the US technology industry has become one of the dominant global forces shaping the ways we connect with each other; it's easy to think about how much different and perhaps atomized the world would be if Facebook, for example, didn't exist.
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If that closeness is false, there is some small element of truth in it, and something authentically valuable and pleasant in the sense that all these atomized people, all of them bored in their individuated ways, are enjoying the same thing in that moment, more or less together.
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Part of it is "the atomized, 24-second news cycle where the speed of digitized platforms and the compressed attention spans of the audience have us careening from one controversy and outrage to the next," says Kevin Madden, a veteran GOP strategist who worked on Mitt Romney's presidential campaign.
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You know that you have to make a record and that the record has to make sense and be accessible, and at the same time you know that all of that music is totally destroyable and it's going to be atomized and rendered in a great number of variations.
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For a few uneasy hours it seemed as if life in western Europe had become so bored, so emotionally impoverished in its reduction to the scope of screens and windows, that it took the spectacle of mass-murder to jolt a digitally atomized society into feeling anything at all.
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A few thousand nigh-instantaneous rounds of B2-alloy marbles opened up a hole in the ceiling, resulting in a surprisingly tiny cascade of debris—that section of the building's roof having been more or less shredded and atomized and dispersed outward in a cloud of wood and plaster.
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It's such a seductive idea that it's become the rallying cry of what Cabanas and Illouz refer to as the "personal society"—therapeutic, individualist, and atomized—over a more collectivist one—the sort in which we're supposed to care about the people we spend our time with, too.
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The Nebia shower is all a very strange feat of engineering and involves the water being "atomized" as they called it, with water droplets being significantly smaller when it exits some nozzles, leading to an enveloping mist, and larger and warmer jets being shot out of the shower head's center.
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Paying for Treatment Nathan Heller, in his piece about how families are crowdfunding to cover medical costs, astutely observes that the exploitative storytelling culture underpinning GoFundMe "looks past all the interlocking motions of society in favor of the personal, the private, the atomized view" ("Tell Us What You Need," July 1st).
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And so I think you get to a problem where every single news outlet has their own app and all of this information is atomized and fragmented in all these different places, and I don't necessarily wanna have to open up all these different apps every time I wanna consume content.
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What I was thinking about when you were talking about that was I think there are not many people who were as big a star as he was for as long as he was, and I wonder if we're going to have versions of that going forward because culture is so atomized.
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Unless one candidate comes out of Nevada and South Carolina with a powerful upper hand, it is quite likely that the same atomized delegate count could continue into Super Tuesday, when 15 states and territories, accounting for nearly 40 percent of all delegates in the Democratic race, cast ballots on March 3.
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Umair Haque: Orthodox economics would have predicted a collapse in the money supply, a credit crunch, a trade implosion, mass unemployment, an atomized GDP [gross domestic product, or a measure of the value of stuff a country makes in a specific period], and the gears of industry and commerce grinding to a crashing halt.
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He looked at them and saw an atomized society where no one felt at home any longer, and masses of people cycled through prisons and jails—a place where irrelevance was both sin and punishment, and there was no need for a totalitarian government to stifle dissent because everyone was out only for themselves.
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Fair, but I think that we're — it's a community, and, again, we had a strong conviction that the way to build a community, even one that's going to be global one day, is to start in a smaller, atomized way where you really learn how to build community between people and create meaningful connections.
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A great hotel is a theater of dreams, and Julie Satow, a journalist who covers New York real estate, digs deep into the forces that took the Plaza from a living center of aspiring social connection tied to the fortunes of American high society to its present status in an atomized era of pitiless transactional globalism.
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The first was optimism in the face of atomized political structures and the terrorist perils that have kept this city and country on edge (some clothes bore slogans like "Europa" or, more banally, "Think Big" and "The Power of Dreams") and also the ongoing homage that Mr. Gvasalia's designs pay to Cristóbal Balenciaga, the founder of this house.
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On the conservative side, I think there has been a general advance in nuance over the last five or 10 years, with some of the writers my colleague quotes — Deneen especially — stressing the interplay of social and economic liberalism, of left-wing and right-wing forms of individualism, in creating our more atomized, fragmented and post-familial society.
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These games are, in these dwindling days, more or less the last pillar of both certainty and wildness standing amid a broader recession into atrophy, entropy, and atomized abstraction—the last thing that everyone will watch together, as they happen, because viewers know that they will only happen once, and because we do not yet know how they end.
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And it's gotten more and more and more difficult obviously as the opposition forces have fragmented, have atomized, as the Islamic State has stood up, as the al Qaeda affiliate has been established, as the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Quds Forces advisers began helping Bashar al Assad -- and then Lebanese Hezbollah fighters, then some Iranian forces and Shia militias, then Russian air support and special forces.
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Over the two decades since "The Brand Called You," full-time employment has steadily atomized into casual, part-time and temporary work, culminating in the "project world" of the gig economy — microjobs driving for Uber, running errands for TaskRabbit or cooking up side hustles on Fiverr, a company whose subway ads glamorize pitiless overwork ("sleep deprivation is your drug of choice") despite its being named after a woefully small amount of cash.
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This isn't far from what Theodor Adorno meant when he talked about the "fetish-character" in music, the way that scraps and phrases of great classical pieces are isolated from their context in the work itself, atomized and commodified, so that they can come to stand for "high culture," a chimera that in practice wasn't much more than a crutch for the ego, a way of looking down at other people who don't fetishize the grand signifiers of art.
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" In the June interview, Petraeus was clear-eyed about how tricky ending the Syrian civil war is likely to be, saying, "It's gotten more and more and more difficult, obviously, as the opposition forces have fragmented, have atomized, as the Islamic State has stood up, as the al Qaeda affiliate has been established, as the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Quds Forces advisers began helping [Syrian dictator] Bashar al-Assad -- and then Lebanese Hezbollah fighters, then some Iranian forces and Shia militias, then Russian air support and special forces.
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If you have never been in an office where someone has microwaved some fish: O sweet summer child, how little you know and how much you have to learn, the road is long and sometimes dark, O sweet baby, O my sweet summer baby child— If you have been in an office where someone has microwaved some fish: you will remember very vividly not only the smell (something curious happens to fish when you microwave it, where previously delicious-smelling fish suddenly, in the atomized heat prison of a shared microwave, turns into the worst smell in the world; it smells like rotting fruit and rotting blood and rotting fish all at once, and also this smell will last all afternoon, at a minimum).
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