unsettlement

It always seeks out that which will increase its own velocity, deepen its hold, magnify its unsettlement....

Most people I met or heard speak over the weekend agreed there was a common element of unease and unsettlement, which explains the panels dedicated to simpatico artists like Clive Barker, David Cronenberg and J.G.

The Biden administration, he added, has a story of real accomplishment to tell, but many Americans “are still feeling a sense of unease and unsettlement and disruption.”

It signals a widespread social unsettlement, an unbounded and uncontainable anxiety.

But the shortage was an unsettlement in an era when there had been far too many unsettlements already.