Sentences with phrase «as epochal»

[20] Though the usage of the term as a kind of shorthand to designate the work of certain Post-war «schools» employing relatively specific material and generic techniques has become conventional since the mid-1980s, the theoretical underpinnings of Postmodernism as an epochal or epistemic division are still very much in controversy.

Insofar as epochal becoming is ignored.

Float «is not as epochal as the printed book.

Not exact matches

In the study, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, they write: «China's emergence as a great economic power has induced an epochal shift in patterns of world trade.

We are in the first phases of an epochal shift as billions of the world's industrial assets come online.

We must not be confused by Whitehead's atomistic language as some of his disciples apparently are; the so - called «epochal theory of time» is atomistic only in name.

Because every occasion must include some very general and abstract eternal objects as forms of definiteness (i.e., spatial, temporal, «epochal» ones) as well as less pervasive forms, no occasion is constituted as a heap of unileveled components, one as important or unimportant as another.

Perhaps it hinges on a confusion between (1) the necessity for there to be a modal dipolarity between God and the World and (2) the necessity for there to be an epochal dipolarity within God, that is, for the moments of God to exhibit the fundamental dipolarity (expressed by the Category of the Ultimate) between the present moment of God - as - creating and all previous moments of God - as - created which the present contains.

I shall argue that Whitehead did in fact badly misinterpret Aristotle's concept of substance, as Eslick claimed, and I shall suggest that, far from amounting to an inconsequential error in historical exegesis, this misconception was a strong influence in turning Whitehead's metaphysics in the direction of an epochal theory of becoming.

[19] His writings are justly described as having an epochal place in social science, and in general I find myself in agreement with his theses, to the extent that I can grasp them.

In short, one must decide that simple location and misplaced concreteness really are fallacies before such a method as extensive abstraction or a metaphysics of epochal occasions will recommend themselves.

Indeed, one finds in others whom Whitehead read, such as James Ward, similar ideas about epochal occasions.

I am preceded in this conclusion by a number of scholars, such as Milic Capek in Bergson and Modern Physics (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Reidel, 1971), 215, 307; and F. Bradford Wallack in The Epochal Nature of Process in Whitehead's Metaphysics (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1980), 207:

11An actual entity does not endure as such, since its process of becoming is epochal in nature (it has duration, but not endurance), and every actual entity is «changeless» inasmuch as each is the self - same individual.

However, Science and the Modern World also introduces the epochal theory of time, which stands as a great modification of Whitehead's event ontology.

For instance, perhaps we do not have to think of one notion of time as more fundamental than another — perhaps we can find ways of conceiving of epochal time and continuous time as basically complementary.

The classic example is the insertion of the «Epochal Theory of Time» in Science and the Modern World, forcing the eventual transformation of what, in that book, had initially been a Spinozistic approach to creativity as the one, undifferentiated underlying activity (with «events» of varied temporal duration as the «modes» of this underlying process) toward the Leibnizian monadology of actual entities (each a kind of time - quantum) that finally appeared subsequently in Process and Reality.

The epochal occasion which we apprehend as the present is one occasion, but it might have been twenty epochal occasions.

Whitehead wants to circumvent this idea with his «epochal» theory of time, according to which an actual entity exists only as long as the timespan of the becoming that constitutes it (PR 308 / 469f).

As an Oxford and Cambridge - educated man, Hawking must know that he is competing against the epochal grand unification theories in Dante's Divine Comedy and Milton's Paradise Lost.

The Badgers still haven't played anyone, but as if on cue: Iowa, fresh off that epochal cratering of Ohio State, comes to town.

The colts, two of the finest 3 - year - olds ever to appear in the same year, were set to battle at old Washington Park, Chicago's South Side course, in what was being whooped along as the greatest match race on the planet since Seabiscuit and War Admiral ran at Pimlico on Nov. 1, 1938, the epochal clash of regions, lifestyles and social classes.

It is this blanket criticism, with scant institutional memory, a wilful disregard of the shambles the Jonathan government left behind — even after a year — that passes Nigerians as unfeeling; and not able to appreciate the epochal chaos that Buhari and his government are battling with; from which they hope to rebuild the commonwealth.

His epochal text, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), is often conceived as the starting point of modern astronomy, as well as a central and defining epiphany in the history of all science.

In fact, director Michael Mann — an epochal»80s cultural figure as the creator of «Miami Vice,» who has been almost invisible in this decade — is after something much richer and stranger than the plot of «The Insider» would suggest.

It's a film our critic describes as «emotionally devastating,» and it's hard to see how any documentary that takes such an unflinching and deeply - felt look at the aftermath of such an epochal tragedy as the school shootings in Newtown Connecticut could not be — especially as the film focuses not on the killer or on the politics of the event, but simply on the children, in particular on three of the victims, and their families trying to cope in the wake of an incomprehensible loss.

Criterion treats this epochal film to the fine Blu - ray it deserves, one that boasts a splendid feature presentation as well as an abundance of substantial extras, the best of which is a follow - up documentary ten years in the making.

Just as the launch of The Chronicle had occurred on the cusp of an epochal period for higher education, the debut of the «chronicle of precollegiate education» came as the first stirrings of a remarkable age of ferment in elementary and secondary policy were being felt.

The practical shape makes a ton of sense and could well become more popular here as strict fuel - economy requirements force epochal changes in vehicle design and structure.

Against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous and a world undergoing epochal change, this story of a lifelong friendship is told with unmatched honesty.

As the East Coast attempts to clean up and dry off from a storm that could have been much worse (but was still pretty bad in spots) we wake up to a fairly epochal week in the history of comics.

The later launch will give Bungie a chance to polish the game, but as Forbes rightly points out, will also allow it to avoid competition from Respawn Entertainment's potentially - epochal Titanfall, which arrives in March.

Following this catastrophic event, her work underwent an epochal shift as she more closely explored time, place and geography.

Since her epochal «Untitled Film Stills» (1977 - 80), Ms. Sherman has put herself at the center of her deep - thinking photography for four decades, but she has never been as extroverted as her art might suggest.

This exhibition includes two new groups of paintings: a selection of self - portraits and a series depicting the Million Man March on Washington, D.C. Displayed as counterpoints in two separate galleries, the self - portraits offer discrete views of the artist as a private individual with a public persona, while the Million Man March artworks — large, unstretched canvases screenprinted with mass - media images — portray arrays of anonymous individuals brought together at an epochal moment for the African American community.

Both take epochal social change as subject, and both hide it behind a surface so ordinary one could mistake it for the realism of art's past.

By 1951, he was in Leo Castelli's epochal «Ninth Street Show» at Betty Parsons Gallery as well as Eleanor Ward's Stable Gallery a year later, confirming his importance to the movement.

Richard Billingham's blisteringly honest photos of his alcoholic dad and his mountainous, tattooed mom — Ray and Liz, as they have come to be intimately known — were the toast of Charles Saatchi's epochal late -»90s exhibition «Sensation» and drew crowds again this fall at Frieze, which hosted a presentation peering back to the no - longer - Young British Artist's first solo show.

Kellie Jones is an art historian who grew up in the»60s and the»70s in New York with epochal parents — the writers LeRoi Jones (a.k.a. Amiri Baraka) and Hettie Jones — and whose work as a curator and scholar has focused in part on hidden histories of African - American art.

The most satisfying pieces are those such as Wobber's «Little Boy» and «Red Mountain,» where little carving or polishing was done, leaving the stone to display its inherent echoes of landscape and epochal change.

That pitch - perfect exhibition will forever radiate an incomparable aura of epochal inevitability, so Takashi Murakami may have been wise to bill his foray at the palace as a meditation on a transhistorical dreamworld.

In these truly epochal works, Sherman posed herself repeatedly as characters from B movies.

Marin's enthusiasm would continue over the course of his long career, and in time his innovative paintings would take their place among those of the many other important American painters who depicted the state's uniquely American landscape, including the epochal seascapes of his illustrious predecessor, Winslow Homer (American, 1836 - 1910), as well as the iconic images of Mount Katahdin by his great contemporary in the Stieglitz group, Marsden Hartley (American, 1877 - 1943).

If 2016 endures in American history as a year of epochal disaster, then it will be fair to ask, in the grim years to come: how on earth could artists have joked around so much while the darkness gathered?

The world premiere of MYRIAD is presented as a four - part epochal song cycle by the Park Avenue Armory and the Red Bull Music Festival New York City.

As an introduction to this epochal figure in the contemporary arts, this award - winning project — Atlas directed all of Cunningham's film and video work for a decade — «A Lifetime in Dance» could scarcely be bettered.

And you recently had an article on your own blog where you spoke of some recent developments in fusion power research by Dr. Robert Bussard as «the truly epochal moment of the 21st century; a liminal moment.»

As hard as it might be to suss out the impact of extreme weather in 2017, yet harder is sussing out the impact of the changing climate, now and in the future — due to the difficulty of tying individual weather events to epochal changes like global warming, the inability of headline economic figures to capture the messy fullness of human life, and the inadequacy of the available data to measure changes in the natural and the economic worlAs hard as it might be to suss out the impact of extreme weather in 2017, yet harder is sussing out the impact of the changing climate, now and in the future — due to the difficulty of tying individual weather events to epochal changes like global warming, the inability of headline economic figures to capture the messy fullness of human life, and the inadequacy of the available data to measure changes in the natural and the economic worlas it might be to suss out the impact of extreme weather in 2017, yet harder is sussing out the impact of the changing climate, now and in the future — due to the difficulty of tying individual weather events to epochal changes like global warming, the inability of headline economic figures to capture the messy fullness of human life, and the inadequacy of the available data to measure changes in the natural and the economic world.

We like to imagine ourselves as at the heart of some exciting epochal change, but in reality it's quite difficult to assess how, or if, future historians will read these volumes.

These present times, as painful as they are, will prove to be an epochal time of wealth building, if we position ourselves correctly.