Sentences with phrase «about political desire»

[2] Positing that these open narratives hold potential for a wider conversation about political desire that does not exclude the subject of feeling, the exhibition aims to provide points of reflection for how the political group might be reimagined with a renewed capacity to respond to the power of the few.

Not exact matches

New Testament Scholars tell us that there are only three historical facts that we can be certain of about Jesus: (a) Jesus was part of the Kingdom of God movement, the belief in the divine sovereignty of Israel, and the desire for the divine expulsion of the Romans, (b) when Jesus came to Jerusalem to advance this movement, he was crucified, a penalty reserved specifically for those who posed a political or financial threat to the Roman Peace, and (c) a sect of the Kingdom of God movement continued in Jesus» name and memory, which was active in Jerusalem, and which lasted until 70 CE when the city was sacked and all the many different Zealot sects there were put down.

There is nothing uniquely Midwestern about a determined desire to gain a measure of political control over one's immediate environment.

The violent death of Jesus on the cross revealed the truth about religious - political violence: that it is we humans who want and desire it; not God.

A new kind of political - economic - moral order was rising — under the hand of Providence, he thought — and perhaps the most striking thing about this new order was that in it «men have in our time carried to the highest perfection the art of pursuing in common the object of common desires, and have applied this new technique to the greatest number of purposes.»

The other letters merely talk about the ideas that a desired new political party might promote.

Being bolder about progressive causes is a matter of strategic necessity and political survival, not just centre left desire, as I argue in a new Fabian paper The Vision Thing published today.

Bercow's political life has a certain consistency about it; he sees what he believes is an opportunity to further his desire, he apes a person, group or organisation's beliefs, finds them unpalatable, and then rejects his colleagues or beliefs and moves on.

It's a political film so we spoke about anti-Semitism, race, and her desire to escape from her situation, but not really about her actual journey.

What can we do as educational and cultural workers, at this crucial moment in history, when corporate revenue expands as the job market shrinks, when there is such a callous disregard for human suffering and human life, when the indomitable human spirit gasps for air in an atmosphere of intellectual paralysis, social amnesia, and political quiescence, when the translucent hues of hope seem ever more ethereal, when thinking about the future seems anachronistic, when the concept of utopia has become irretrievably Disneyfied, when our social roles as citizens have become increasingly corporatized and instrumentalized in a world which hides necessity in the name of consumer desire, when media analyses of military invasions is just another infomercial for the US military industrial complex with its huge global arms industry, and when teachers and students alike wallow in absurdity, waiting for the junkyard of consumer life to vomit up yet another panacea for despair?

I sympathize with the desire to make larger structural reforms, but for those of us who have a strong interest in thinking carefully and rationally about the structure of benefits, this seemed like more of a political down - payment to some members who have an ideological attachment to DC plans more than it was a carefully designed solution to a real problem.

One thing to hope for is that the whole thing just goes away: eliminating the estate tax entirely is greatly desired by one political party and they are currently in a position to do something about it without worrying about Presidential vetoes.

Michael Ned Holte, who co-curated the Hammer biennial with Connie Butler, called Greene «a very significant artist for a brief period of time,» adding that he and like - minded artists «were vilified by some members of the gay and lesbian community for making work about desire when they were expected to be making work that was political.»

The question I have is about whether that desire for political authority exists before or after climate science.

Their objective must have been political; they must have wanted the film to change the opinions of the pupils — not about the science of climate change, but about the desired political response to the science of climate change.

These studies may help to explain some of the high profile cases of individuals who appear anti-gay only to reveal later to be gay themselves (á la Larry Craig, the US senator who went from championing an anti-gay political agenda to a scandalous airport bathroom encounter with another man); check out this NYTimes article for more about the details of the study.2 This is not to say that every individual who opposes civil rights for the LGBT population is actually gay or that it is typical for gay individuals to unconsciously suppress their sexual desires.