Sentences with phrase «direct experience of the world»

Roe Ethridge's photography emanates from his direct experience of the world.

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I lack the direct experience with the world's largest retailer to fairly say I don't like it, but still — a company that has both a taste for hegemony and a reputation (fair or not) for driving profit out of supply chains is something any marketer should be wary of.

The illusion that there are uninterpreted «self - sustained facts, floating in nonentity» (PR 11/17) is the direct outcome of Bacon's attempt to describe detailed matters of fact in separation from a metaphysical interpretation of the experienced world as a unified whole.

He sees Whitehead as a scientific realist striving after some sort of correspondence between the world as understood by modern physics and the world of direct experience (PW 214/236) Whitehead represents the opposite of Bertrand Russell in his phenomenalist period.

Mays generally claims that the similarity between the world of physical science and that of direct experience «is usually of an extremely attenuated nature» (PW 215/237).

Generally Whitehead begins with the understandings of physical science and attempts to show how this is compatible with the world of direct experience; for instance, the doctrine of transmutation is his means of explaining our perception of continuous regions rather than of atomic particles.

These topics are of chief concern to Mays because it is here that Whitehead's failure to bridge the gulf between direct experience and the world of scientific realism is most evident.

But the question we are asking is whether experience does not also testify to ourselves as sources of action directed outwards to the world, that is, as engaged in an active doing and making that involves more than active self - creation.

In other words, Solzhenitsyn's writings are based on his life experiences, showing how he has moved from a theoretically tainted world view to a more direct perception of the truth.

We perfect this defence apparatus from generation to generation until we can assure ourselves that the world is there to be experienced and used as we like but that nothing is directed at us, nothing required of us.

But only our own specious present is directly experienced with any vividness; and it is from this direct experience that philosophy must, according to process philosophy, seek to generalize its understanding of the non-human world.

Without any direct experience of individuals in the antecedent world, we are but one step away from solipsism of the present moment, as Whitehead repeatedly shows.

The world has experienced the bitter taste of disappointment because George Miller has announced that he will not be directing the Mad Max sequels.

It involves the tragic beauty that God creatively experiences in redeeming the world from evil, but it is not the direct experience of this redemption.

And television has become our prime story - teller, the creator of the images and narratives which, taken altogether, provide us with a worldview which seriously competes with the real world of direct experience.

It is here that we best discover the difference between orthopraxis in Panikkar and in the Theology of Liberation: In Panikkar, it is primarily directed towards the experience of the Cosmotheandric Reality and not towards action in the world.

If one who holds the subjectivist principle posits the reality of a world of actual entities spatially and / or temporally beyond the present moment of experience, and the reality of causal interaction among these entities, one does so solely on the basis of inference, not direct knowledge.

Most probably the presentation of real Berlitz type languages and a flesh - and - bones, hungry and lunching risen Christ were both directed against the temptation to equate the life of faith with esoteric experiences in withdrawal from the real world.

The new environment is the consequent nature of God, where the serial reality of the self continues to experience and to change, but without any direct attachment to the material world.

By ignoring direct perceptions in the mode of causal efficacy, we reduce the world experienced to aspects which are immediately presented to the senses and to what we judge to be the possessor of those characteristics.

In effect, Whitehead's insistence that direct experience includes perceptions in the mode of causal efficacy reverses the usual evaluation of the different ways women and men are supposed to experience the world.

Furthermore, it gave us direct experience of a very different world that, nonetheless, for many of us, is a potential future employer.

So how to keep the catastrophist AGW bandwagon rolling when the direct and consistent personal experience of billions is that of a cooling world?

Peter, being an alarmist is a responsible role for any who see, experience, suffer from, research or educate themselves about the direct impacts of a warming world.

Namely, that some of the extreme weather the world has been experiencing is the direct result of human - caused climate change.

More and more, you'll yearn for the direct experience of what lies beyond the senses, beyond the world of appearances.

The concept of building a base in god - mode and afterwards be allowed to experience the world, and act as a direct leader of your troops, makes this game great, and furthermore strikes down on something I, for one, have wanted to see since Red Alert 1.

Filmed without narration, subtitles, or any comprehensible dialogue, Babies is a direct encounter with four babies who stumble their predictable ways to participating in the awesome beauty of life.Needless to say, their experience of the first year of life is vastly different, yet what stands out is not how much is different but how much is universal as each in their own way attempts to conquer their physical environment.Though the language is different as well as the environment, the babies cry the same, laugh the same, and try to learn the frustrating, yet satisfying art of crawling, then walking in the same way.You will either find Babies entrancing or slow moving depending on your attitude towards babies because frankly that's all there is, yet for all it will be an immediate experience far removed from the world of cell phones and texting, exploring up close and personal the mystery of life as the individual personality of each child begins to emerge.

During this 1 - on - 1 phone interview with Collider, actor Giovanni Ribisi talked about the strengths of Season 1, expanding the world in Season 2, the respect he has for showrunner Graham Yost (Justified), not approaching his character from an inhumane place, the potential in playing someone who's always taking on different characters, and his experience with directing an episode.

«JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE + THE TENNESSEE KIDS» (2016) This Netflix concert documentary of JT's «20/20 Experience World Tour», directed by the late Jonathan Demme, is an incredible eExperience World Tour», directed by the late Jonathan Demme, is an incredible experienceexperience.

RC Sherriff's 1928 play Journey's End, which depicts a group of soldiers in the trenches in the First World War, has been adapted in various forms over the years, although my first experience of the story was this latest version, directed by Saul Dibb, who most recently made Suite Française.

Literally an out of this world experience, the Ridley Scott directed The Martian came a long way from its start as a blog by author Andy Weir to having Matt Damon on board and a global box office success of more than $ 570 million.

As far as Drew Goddard goes, the man has plenty of experience in the sci - fi, fantasy and horror realms, having written Cloverfield, World War Z, The Martian and The Cabin in the Woods (which he also directed).

And Buchanan - Dunlop is now courting sponsors for a series of new student trips to Kenya and Russia, emphasizing that the world has never needed this type of direct educational experience more.

Community Roots students receive direct instruction in all content areas and participate in literacy experiences (reading, writing, listening, and speaking) while being engaged in the study of their world through three in - depth social studies - based units each year.

The company is now taking a direct hand in grooming the kids of today for the jobs of tomorrow by offering students who have demonstrated a passion for education and technology an opportunity to get real - world training and experience via its Student Ambassador program.

In a world where no stocks ever paid dividends or were bought, their value would be entirely theoretical — since shareholders would never actually experience direct benefit of their ownership.

«Consumers reaching out to hobbyist clubs and manufacturers, as well as retailers participating at consumer - relevant shows such as America's Family Pet Expo and Aquatic Experience will offer a direct connection to foster young aquarists and encourage aquarium keeping,» says Doug Poindexter, president of World Pet Association.

With the world of art, fashion, culture and business already on the doorstep, owners will enjoy direct access to the hotel experience, which will include an indoor pool, a comprehensive fitness centre and an intimate spa, providing Mandarin Oriental's renowned wellness services.

The signing of these properties is a significant step in the brand's expansion, not only reflecting the growing global traveller demand for independent travel experiences around the world, but also serving as a direct response to its loyalty reward members» desires for more hotel options in both adventure travel and wine country destinations.

I disagree, motion controls were the least of the game's problems, it had other, far more glaring issues with its design, such as the backpedalling from the open world in Wind Waker to a more linear, directed experience, with a bloated main quest and little side content.

From Remedy Entertainment, the critically acclaimed creators of «Alan Wake» and «Max Payne,» comes a revolutionary entertainment experience that weaves the cinematic action of intense gameplay with the tension and drama of scripted television, creating a world where each has a direct impact on the other.

It is through Courbet, the specific artist, the Harmonian demiurge, that all the figures partake of the life of this pictorial world, and all are related to his direct experience; they are not traditional, juiceless abstractions like Truth or Immortality, nor are they generalized platitudes like the Spirit of Electricity or the Nike of the Telegraph; it is, on the contrary, their concreteness which gives them credibility and conviction as tropes in a «real allegory,» as Courbet subtitled the work, and which, in addition, ties them indissolubly to a particular moment in history.

As a student in 1949 at the Art Students League of New York, for example, he laid paper on the floor of the building's entrance to capture the footprints of those entering and exiting.10 The creation of receptive surfaces on which to record, collect, or index the direct imprint of elements from the real world is especially central to the artist's pre-1955 works.11 Leo Steinberg's celebrated 1972 article «Reflections on the State of Criticism» isolated this particular approach to surface as collection point as the singular contribution of Rauschenberg's works of the early 1950s, one which galvanized a new position within postwar art. 12 Steinberg coined the term «flatbed picture plane» to account for this radical shift, through which «the painted surface is no longer the analogue of a visual experience of nature but of operational processes.»

In 2007 and 2008, Murakami was experiencing a lot of commercial success: his massive first retrospective was traveling around the world; his Louis Vuitton collaboration was in full swing; he was commissioned to create the album art for Kanye West's massively popular Graduation album and directed one of its music videos.

Nancy Beal's paintings are about her direct experience of her immediate world in upstate New York.

Thus the Human — his direct and present experience in the face of the inconceivable world — becomes the initial and the final point of the actual picture of the world.

Throughout the exhibition, artists test the limits of timeworn structures and protocols, claim space for direct experience and personal agency, and create alternate zones or worlds.

SB: To your mind, and based on your experience as a curator working across the world and in a variety of forms and contexts, from the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair to Documenta, how might art contribute to the discourses today in a world that feels increasingly polarized as a direct result of colonial legacies?

The media and social archives run by Mediatheque under the direction of Kenji Kai, an experienced creator of independent media, in collaboration with Chinatsu Shimizu, are intended to prevent knowledge of the direct surroundings and the world from being rendered unquestionable.