Sentences with phrase «abstractness in»

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The point is that in the realm of informational abstractness products can escape the limitations of their (invariably relativized) productive origins.

So we sometimes have recourse, in Christian circles, to the «living Jesus» in order to overcome our sense of the abstractness, the remoteness, and the emptiness of what in truth is a living, concrete presence.

But the sense in which «relative» applies to an event, say, is systematically different from the sense in which it applies to an ordinary quality at some lower level of abstractness, whether genus or species.

Thus, just as in Whitehead's categoreal system the two first - mentioned elements, absolute concreteness and unique occurrence, are united in the concept of a determinate, fundamental, categoreal existence (the concept of an occasion or actual entity), so the corresponding counter-elements, absolute abstractness and the character of abiding existence [lmmer - Gewesen - Sein], are joined together in another concept of an opposite categoreal type, that of an utterly abstract entity, which always was and always is, which Whitehead calls an eternal object.

We can go back as far as Kierkegaard to find these roots, but our focus is more well placed in Jean Baudrillard's theories that argue for a heightened abstractness within culture pointing us to the negative side of an intertextual world view where meaning is paradoxically contained in and unbound by deferánce.

Despite their supreme abstractness, the categories have their place in the causal order in the several respects affirmed by conclusions two through four.

Love the abstractness and color combo in it!

The level of abstractness Garland injects into «Annihilation» won't satisfy those seeking meaning in their extraterrestrial confrontations, but obscurity often leads to energizing intrigue and welcome speculation.

In the end he found what he was looking for, which was not so much a new principle as a more comprehensive one: and it lay not in Nature, but in the essence of art itself, its «abstractness» — the qualities of the medium alone — as a principle of consistency makes no difference: it is there, plain to see in the paintings of his old agIn the end he found what he was looking for, which was not so much a new principle as a more comprehensive one: and it lay not in Nature, but in the essence of art itself, its «abstractness» — the qualities of the medium alone — as a principle of consistency makes no difference: it is there, plain to see in the paintings of his old agin Nature, but in the essence of art itself, its «abstractness» — the qualities of the medium alone — as a principle of consistency makes no difference: it is there, plain to see in the paintings of his old agin the essence of art itself, its «abstractness» — the qualities of the medium alone — as a principle of consistency makes no difference: it is there, plain to see in the paintings of his old agin the paintings of his old age.

Any newcomers to Merce Cunningham who visit the last performances ever in Britain of his modern dance company - renowned, even notorious, for its abstruse abstractness - will surely go away with an impression of laughter, playfulness, the lightness...

You have this experience solely of The Big Lady, not of the abstractness of the thing moving, shifting in space.

«Literary expression, the letter's materiality, the word's abstractness — these themes have been important in Toronto's art community for generations,» said Onsite curator Charles Reeve.

Even in its abstractness, it has a touch of chutzpah, a quality that subsequent generations of artists adopted and evolved into irreverence, self - awareness and topical meta - commentary on art and contemporary life.

Because of the abstractness of the looking that is involved, color spot painting allows you to discover the unexpected, rather than the expected, in nature.

If I try to get rid of that boaty bit, then to a certain extent I have already been hijacked by figurative thinking (in particular, my concept of what an abstract painting should look like) and the abstractness of my work has already been compromised.

The reasons for that are many: the timid language of scientific probabilities, which the climatologist James Hansen once called «scientific reticence» in a paper chastising scientists for editing their own observations so conscientiously that they failed to communicate how dire the threat really was; the fact that the country is dominated by a group of technocrats who believe any problem can be solved and an opposing culture that doesn't even see warming as a problem worth addressing; the way that climate denialism has made scientists even more cautious in offering speculative warnings; the simple speed of change and, also, its slowness, such that we are only seeing effects now of warming from decades past; our uncertainty about uncertainty, which the climate writer Naomi Oreskes in particular has suggested stops us from preparing as though anything worse than a median outcome were even possible; the way we assume climate change will hit hardest elsewhere, not everywhere; the smallness (two degrees) and largeness (1.8 trillion tons) and abstractness (400 parts per million) of the numbers; the discomfort of considering a problem that is very difficult, if not impossible, to solve; the altogether incomprehensible scale of that problem, which amounts to the prospect of our own annihilation; simple fear.