![]() ![]() Rather, throughout history, cultures have experienced events and threats that resulted in mass cultural anxiety. The risks of ecological degradation, terrorism, crime, pandemic outbreaks, war, and political unrest are increasingly visible, but they are not new. In this digital age of constant media engagement, we are inundated with news of threats from all directions. Whether understood as a personal sense of apprehension and uncertainty, or as a broader social affect conditioned by various cultural and political parameters, anxiety has expanded beyond its psychological and psychiatric associations and has emerged as a familiar idiom in cultural investigation. Auden, “The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue” “We would rather be ruined than changed” - W.H. ![]() Е-мейл Оргкомитета: Department of English Twelfth Graduate Student Conference, University of Ottawa
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