Sentences with phrase «culture of accumulation»
After all, we live in a culture of accumulation and instant gratification.
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But Canada is a country that is an accumulation of diverse cultures, and maybe that is what makes it unique.
Given that, the real surprise would have been if this week's crisis had never happened; culture is the accumulation of decisions, and Uber had long since decided that unacceptable behavior would be tolerated as long as the perpetrator was a «high performer».
Without such regularity in physical phenomena there could be no probability to guide us: no prediction, no prudence, no accumulation of ordered experience, no pursuit of premeditated ends, no formation of habit, no possibility of character or of culture.
• «The seedbed of our policy - making is a culture that values individualism over community and the accumulation of goods over the common good.»
We live in a land that has made the accumulation of stuff a divine right AND a divine attribute surrounded by a consumer culture that has «shoved us into it's mold» while we weren't looking.
Religions have constituted the core of the lives and communities of the people; cultures have expressed and transmitted their values, forms, styles and tastes; and civilizations have formed through the long accumulations of the peoples» religio - cultural achievements and failures.
The presence of synthetic ovine corticotropin - releasing factor leads to a rapid and marked stimulation of adenosine 3», 5» - monophosphate accumulation in an enriched population of rat pituitary corticotrophs in primary culture.
To investigate how the liver responds to bile accumulation, the research team used an artificial culture system, which allowed the easy manipulation of cultured liver cells.
In order to determine which type of liver cells cause this accumulation, the researchers repeated the experiment using cultured hepatocytes.
As shown in Fig. 2 A, treatment with 1 % islet homogenate from diabetic mice leads to punctated accumulation of thioflavin S (ThS)-- positive amyloid aggregates in cultured islets.
Culturing wild - type brains with the fat bodies from fed gbp1, gbp2 ex67 larvae showed high levels of ILP2 and ILP5 accumulation that were indistinguishable from those from brains cultured in medium alone or with starved fat bodies.
On the other hand, the fat bodies from starved wild - type larvae showed high levels of ILP2 and ILP5 accumulation, comparable to levels of accumulation in brains cultured in medium alone without fat body.
(A, B) Culturing wild - type brains with conditioned media from GBP1 and GBP2 expressing cells induces low level of ILP2 (A) and ILP5 (B) accumulation in the insulin - producing cells.
With the culture coming around to what some men in the know have known for years, older woman have the experience, wisdom and confidence that is only gained by the accumulation of years.
A learning culture is an accumulation of organizational values, practices, conventions, and processes that are laid out for the development...
Melgaard's schizophrenic accumulations of vulgar ephemera might evoke the installations of Thomas Hirschhorn — that is, if Hirschhorn's papery images of war - ravaged, blown - apart bodies and Hellraiser - like mannequins were replaced by cum - dripping penises and self - fisting platypuses; that is, if Hirschhorn were in fact not a heterosexual Swiss man but a sexy, hairy, Australian - born Norwegian gay guy hell - bent, in the abject tradition of Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy, on figuratively shitting all over mainstream culture.
His tent paintings don't indulge the American fetish for brand names, but they are irreverent like Pop painting, and evoke a broader world of cheap, impermanent things, a restless culture on the move, a society that leaves its mark not through grand edifices but through an accumulation of ephemera and trash.
«The sense that pictures occupy very distinct places in culture,» wrote curators Richard Birkett and Stefan Kalmár, «and reveal a vertical «strata of representation», has been replaced by fluid, maybe even liquid, modes of accumulation and aggregation.»
SHINIQUE SMITH (Brooklyn, NY) Ms. Smith will present a bundled installation made from the collection and accumulation of unwanted objects, spiritual philosophies, and words, reflecting and commenting upon popular culture and global economies.
is it the one who uses it's developed technology to invade, subjugate, desecrate and finally, perhaps, annihilate that very environment it relies upon for it's life... or is it the other who, with astute observation recognizes a «line» between sustainability and destruction, and by managing it's population, refuses to be tempted by the possibility of a gluttony of temporary riches and maintains a judicious, salubrious lifestyle and culture for many thousands of years, visiting the same locations for food, clothing, shelter without desecration nor selfish accumulation?
I don't want to be accused of writing super long posts, so I'll stop there for now, and just add that we have created a culture that validates consumption and accumulation, especially capital accumulation by the few.
At some point in Disney's accumulation of just about every pop culture touchstone in the entertainment landscape, Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes became inevitable.
It's more likely an accumulation of small breaches that result in a culture of disappointment, discontent, and ultimately broken trust.