Sentences with phrase «mbh decentered»

Hence the postmodern decentered, fluctuating vision of man.

However, as I have tried to show, while in Deleuze's metaphysics we find something like Whiteheadian pure potentiality reappearing in a radically decentered form, the net result is less a neo-Whiteheadian naturalism than a distinctly postmodern avatar of polytheism: a vision of multiple «little divinities» effecting random syntheses of differential elements within an immanent space of possibilities: a theory of evolution metamorphosed into Chaosmological Myth: an unqualified affirmation of the endless, goalless, production of Difference.

My aim in the present paper is twofold: first to argue, pro Sherburne and contra Deleuze's reading, that there is no place for God — even for Whitehead's God — in a «chaosmos» worthy of the name; but secondly, following Deleuze and departing from Sherburne, to outline one way in which the operation of «decentering Whitehead» might lead to somewhere other than to a naturalism.

In these very general terms, perhaps the closest approximation to a chaosmology amongst Whiteheadian thinkers is to be found in Donald Sherburne's vision of «a Whitehead decentered... a Whitehead without God... a neo-Whiteheadian naturalism.»

The decentering and dethroning of established authority are hailed as paths of liberation from the injustices of the past.

Deconstruction attempts to dismantle such structures in order to show their artificiality and the inevitable ways in which any such structure of thought implicitly «decenters» its central term and undermines itself through internal inconsistency and contradiction.

It is my perception that the events unfolding in the world around us unfold in the way that one would expect were ours a decentered Whiteheadian universe.

Anyone who doubts this ought to reread that brilliant, genreconscious postmodernist (not existentialist) Soren Kierkegaard on sin, grace and the decentered Christian self Even the otherwise happy recovery of the traditions of Christian spirituality in our day are also in danger of becoming further fine - tuning, further new peak experiences for the omnivorously consuming modem self.

I will turn, rather, to the second sort of reasons, reasons which rest on an empirical examination of experience and the world, reasons which test the adequacy of the implications of each of the two versions of process metaphysics — the centered and the decentered — to our world as we experience it.

Perhaps the most graphic way of describing the key shift I have made is to say that I have moved from a centered process perspective to a decentered process perspective.

A decentered Whiteheadian vision suggests a world where larger and larger patterns of meaning and order emerge gradually, fitfully, and unevenly from the churning multiplicity of value centers constituted by the sophisticated occasions regnant in living organisms.

In this comparison of Whitehead's centered vision (with God) and my own decentered vision (without God), I will start with a brief recapitulation of Whitehead's account of how God functions in the world.

But my vision is of a decentered process philosophy — order, value, and meaning permeate the whole of reality, but often at only minimal, trivial levels.

My process orientation is toward a Whitehead decentered, toward a Whitehead without God, toward a neo-Whiteheadian naturalism — a process thought in quite a new key.

The theological language of sin and grace once spoke of a decentered ego with all the force of the most radical French postmodernists.

If one decenters Whitehead, then one replaces a cosmos with one overarching center of direction, God, with a cluttered cosmos exhibiting a vast number of centers.

Still others will embrace postmodernity in its most decentering, deconstructive forms so fully that «a-theologies» will be born to announce, yet again, that the «death of God» has finally found its true hermeneutical home.

We have not an individual identity, but fragments of experience; not the narrative of a life that is in some sense a whole, but a decentered flow of experience.

Though Robert Handy has written of the «second disestablishment» of Protestantism (from the Depression on), until now the historical record behind the decentering of American religious and secular culture has been neglected.

10Donald W. Sherburne, «Decentering Whitehead,» Process Studies 15 (1986), 83 - 94, at 88f.

Or, to take another example, the notion of all education as individually focused may need to be decentered (not necessarily replaced) with a notion of education as communal cooperative activity.

Seeing from such an angle opens a person to suffering, decentering and feeling lost and dispossessed.

The decentered self need not deny these considerations, but it takes a different posture.

The self that has begun the kenotic journey prays for forgiveness in order, above all, to be more deeply decentered.

First, there is the problem that Iago is the villain of the play and not its hero: far from looking like the complete Renaissance man, he resembles nothing so much as the unstable, decentered postmodern subject.

Here, once again, decentering seems to get derailed by my preoccupation with myself.

I am still the one speaking, not the one spoken to, but a certain decentering has begun, whether I like it or even notice it.

We hear the decentering force of the prayer in its actual wording: your name, your kingdom, your will (Matt.

In this procedure there is the same decentering, even «dispossession,» of reflective immediacy we have previously observed: a demand that we must make a «detour» through the symbolic world.

However both Whitehead and Derrida's critique of modernism present a noble and exciting possibility for decentering the domination and absolutist claims of modernity; opening the way for other philosophical perspectives without necessarily falling prey to a radical relativism.

According to the deconstructionists, however, this decentered world, rather than producing despair, now offers us wider options for human liberation.

43Donald Sherburne, «Decentering Whitehead,» Process Studies 15 (1986), 83 - 94, at 89.

The Eucharist effects a radical decentering of the individual by incorporating the person into a larger body.

When we are learning another person, there is also inevitably emotional pain, for the very act of entrusting our self to another means a decentering and displacement of our self - preoccupation.

In the original MBH decentered series, the hockey - stick shape emerged in the PC1 series because of reasons we have articulated in both our report and our testimony.

Consequently, there is sufficient performance compliance to target decentering of these RMS amplitudes within the coronagraphic hole.

Brilliantly executed, Wong's peculiarly decentered violent sequences are actually more evocative of the battle scene in Orson Welles's Chimes at Midnight than they are of Leone's operatic showdowns, especially in the way they concentrate on ephemeral, oblique details rather than heroic spectacle.

Blackhat is, by and large, a decentered, minor work, full of things its director does better than anyone else, but which he's also done better elsewhere.

Forms that surrender control, value the role of play, decenter schools and programs, and really, truly teach students how to think for themselves.

It is positioned so that we approach it obliquely, noticing the harsh reflectivity of the steel brace before confronting the calming, decentering expanse of translucent color.

At times, I work in a similar way; as a photographic practitioner, I decenter myself in relation to the production of the image, and extend that to the construction of my exhibitions.

As one moves away from a floor's center, one decenters a view of America as male, white, and straight.

He also manages the centerpiece of a very decentered exhibition.

Reflecting on our current climate of communication, the provocation consistent in Chun's exhibition is a decentering of English as the world's most dominant, «common» language: Could English ever become secondary?

Her work with Indigenous People in Canada aims to decenter institutional space and history.

While Pablo Picasso and fellow Cubists combined archaic Western forms and appropriated exotica to shatter inherited modes of representation, today ubiquitous computing and the digital image explosion create an intersection of the physical and the virtual, and in doing so, have decentered the locus of artistic praxis.

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The specter of the three traumas haunts the work of the three artists presented in the show, each of which reflects one or more of the narcissistic wounds that decenter modern subjectivity.

Keane writes: «The longer the visitor stands before these landscapes, the more it becomes clear that their realistically represented subjects are subordinate to their finely painted detailing and decentered arrangements.

Bois's discussion of the way Matisse achieved a «decentering of the beholder's gaze» is revelatory.