Sentences with phrase «conventional ideas of the self»

Stephen Madigan highlights a few primary narrative therapy ideas including how narrative therapy theory hinges on the idea that conventional ideas of the self as a separate, singular, coherent and readable entity is a normative psychological construct — but it is not an established scientific truth.

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But we can also extend the idea of a threat to something we value to less conventional types of risk: threats to self - worth, for instance, or culture, sense of security, equity, even deeply held beliefs.

From Claudia Hart's critique of digital technology and the misogyny of gaming and special effects media to Carla Gannis's performance video where the artist competes with her virtual self; from Cynthia Lin's monumental drawings detailing minuscule portions of skin to Laura Splan's mixture of scientific and domestic in molecular garments and Joyce Yu - Jean Lee's challenge of conventional viewing perspectives; from Christopher Baker's examination on participative media to Victoria Vesna's collaborative project on social networking, identity ownership and the idea of a «virtual body» — the show guides the viewer through an array of captivating approaches that challenge not only current media ideologies but also conceptual paradigms underlying today's digital art, the question of disembodiment and post-humanism in particular.