Sentences with phrase «culture by impulse»

The idea for a multicultural complex, bringing together in one place different forms of art and literature, developed, in part, from the ideas of France's first Minister of Cultural Affairs, André Malraux, a western proponent of the decentralisation of art and culture by impulse of the political power.

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In Technopoly, Neil Postman says that overly technological cultures, «driven by the impulse to invent, have as their aim a grand reductionism in which human life must find its meaning in machinery and technique.»

As Heidegger journeyed more and more deeply into his intuition of Being, it became ever more clear to him that a central problem in Western culture is the forgetfulness of Being, and that this forgetfulness is symptomized by the will - to - power: that impulse to dominate and subjugate the world in light of human projects.

The Heart of Virtue by Donald DeMarco Ignatius 231 pages, $ 12.95 paper Despite their occasional presence on best - seller lists, books about virtue remain something of an anomaly in contemporary culture, the impulse for serious personal reflection choked out by the saturation of the entertainment media.

Secondly, by linking «art» with «communication», performance studies helps homiletics resist those impulses in the church and / or seminary cultures to devalue the human imagination in favor of «practicalities» and overemphasis on affect and affectation.

A push toward a scientific sovereignty in which the empirical world was the only world, a mechanization of life through the emerging structures of technology and mass industry, a cultivation of persons along the lines of immediate gratification and fulfillment of base impulses, and the use of mass culture by dictatorial regimes to shape a people.

Or to what extent has Christian African American political thought in the past half - century been shaped by a desire simply to be full - fledged participants in American culture and to what extent has it been shaped by a separatist impulse?

«That is, for most evangelicals in America, our encounter with people who are Muslim is relatively recent, relatively superficial, and all - too - often infected by American culture - war impulses.

However, for many, the commonalities exemplified in law, politics, science, technology, and culture seem artificial and subject to distortion by greed and imperial impulse.

The lie of America's interest in deposing dictatorships and righting apocalyptic injustices for humanitarian reasons is the shame that hangs over the picture — and over every single citizen of our «enlightened» culture who still views selective intervention as anything but a personal crusade driven by impulses that are only eventually humanitarian.

His art developed in the London art scene beginning in the 1960s, when a dynamic generation of young artists took painting into a new direction by exploring impulses from both the figurative tradition and popular culture.

Taking its title from the dark 80s teen cult comedy by the same name, Heathers takes a look at pop culture's (and pop cinema's) co-option of contemporary art and its «impulse to vampirise levity as a cipher for criticality and de-subjectivisation».

Curated by New York's Alex Ross and crossing generations born before and beyond the 80s, the exhibition rides on the inescapable cycle of contemporary art co-option in popular culture via its «impulse to vampirise levity as a cipher for criticality and de-subjectivisation».

Accompanying essays by the exhibition's curator, Laura Hoptman, explore eight themes that she perceives in the field — Drafting & Architecture, Mental Maps & Metaphysics, Popular Culture & National Culture, Fashion, Likeness & Allegory, Envisioning a City, Science & Art, Comics & Other Subcultures, Ornament & Crime — and provide key impulses behind drawing's recent resurgence.

She looked outside of the areas of fashion and pop culture for impulses, «exploring the city by foot, finding inspiration in the smallest and most random of things.»