Sentences with phrase «cultures represent ideas»

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The contemporary ecological crisis represents a failure of prevailing Western ideas and attitudes: a male oriented culture in which it is believed that reality exists only as human beings perceive it (Berkeley); whose structure is a hierarchy erected to support humanity at its apex (Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes); to whom God has given exclusive dominance over all life forms and inorganic entities (Genesis 1 - 2); in which God has been transformed into humanity's image by modern secularism (Genesis inverted).

Similar to the Celtic Knot in style, the Triquetra has been used for several different purposes in different cultures, but it's most commonly associated with the idea of the trinity: Not only are the three sides (representing Father, Son and Holy Spirit) distinctly, they are also interconnected.

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The alliance of newspaper owners and BT have sent a letter to politicians of all parties challenging the ideas underpinning a remedy accepted by Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, to answer regulators» concerns over the concentration of news provision represented by the proposed 700p - a-share bid.

The Bell Beaker culture comprised at least two genetically distinct populations and initially represented a spread of ideas more than of people, unlike other notable prehistoric archaeological cultures in Europe.

Two thoughts I hope you can comment on: the Maori culture in the past would preserve the ritual tattooing of their chieftains by preserving their heads after death — the idea of a permanent archive and the furtherance of an oral storytelling tradition that film represents for us in modernity.

The state, law, religion, and the entire realm of ideas, to the extent that they represent the overarching interests in society and are conditioned by the underlying set of socioeconomic relations, will all be enlisted for the purpose of defending the status quo and of patching up society's contradictions, often through the disheveled fantasies of Hollywood or the brittle enchantments of popular culture.

Books represent a lot of things — our history, our culture, a snapshot of what our lives are like, the best ideas of our time, the worst ideas of our time, art, science, and a lot, lot more.

In 2015, at New York Museum of Modern Art Erizku represented his «visual manifesto», a film named Serendipity in which he uses a sledgehammer to break the bust of David, replacing it with the one of Egyptian queen Nefertiti as an expression of the idea that the American culture doesn't value enough the work of black people.

The irony here is that the art world promotes the idea of itself as a site of novelty and insights, but in reality represents a deeply conservative culture.

Even though my paintings may represent an idea about culture, the main focus is based on nature... I want to reduce the idea and emotion in my work to express only that.

But what that text did was allow me to understand that Orientalism was a question of who gets to represent who, and the idea that in the West most Eastern cultures have not been allowed the privilege of representing themselves.

While each exhibition addresses ideas of culture and the self through filmic processes, Modern Art Oxford's exhibition of Piercing Brightness best represents how we might understand cinema's potential within the gallery and its ability to reshape the contemporary art - viewing experience.

What the culture wars represent is not the continuation of ideological struggle between left and right as such, but the dearth of political ideas with which to do battle.

In Weathered, I open up the many ways in which the idea of climate is given shape and meaning in different human cultures — how climates are historicized, known, changed, lived with, blamed, feared, represented, predicted, governed and, at least putatively, re-designed.

I would be remiss if I didn't mention Scott Greenfield's recent reaction to the idea of «robot overlords,» as his thoughts represent a certain segment of the legal practice culture:

This 1992 audio represents a formative lecture featuring Michael White outlining Michel Foucault's ideas on power / knowledge / culture - as they influence externalizing problems.

Ask families for ideas on how they would like differences such as language, culture, family values or disabilities to be represented and supported.