Sentences with word «epochal»

The theory of epochal time states that the genesis of an actual occasion does not take place in physical (clock) time; it creates a quantum of physical time: in every act of becoming there is the becoming of something with temporal extension; but that act itself is not extensive, in the sense that it is divisible into earlier and later acts of becoming which correspond to the extensive divisibility of what has become» (PR 69/107).

We must not be confused by Whitehead's atomistic language as some of his disciples apparently are; the so - called «epochal theory of time» is atomistic only in name.

It was the expression of living realities in the world of nature, as well as a reminiscence of epochal events in the nation's history, which were by various lines of thought accepted as symbols and figures of unseen entities of human life.

The critic and founding editor - in - chief of Artnet magazine for 16 years, he has chronicled the «radical masquerade» of the avant - garde, heralding new talent, skewering the deserving, and identifying epochal shifts in the art scene, from his pronouncement that «there are no art movements, only market movements» to his lament about the rise of «zombie formalism» in contemporary painting today.

The theory of epochal time implies that quanta of physical time come into being «in solido.»

Some 130 years after Edison's remarkable creation of the electricity system, there remains no doubt about its truly epochal nature: the world without electricity has become unimaginable.

There, Wieman spoke with high praise of the role of the primordial nature of God in bringing into mutual support the becoming of epochal occasions whose efforts would otherwise be directed solely to the fulfillment of individual interests without concern for the rest of the universe.

President Obama, seeking to capture a moment of epochal change in the Arab world, began a new effort on Thursday to break the stalemate in the Israeli - Palestinian conflict.

Their assessments, tipsy with the intoxicating fairy dust of celebrity, range from hedged praise to pronouncements that a new epochal moment in the arts is at hand.

Insofar as epochal becoming is ignored.

Float «is not as epochal as the printed book.

«It began with musings on epochal paintings and evolved with the photographs I had taken over the years,» said Kiarostami, «Each of these frames is in essence 4 minutes and 30 seconds of what I imagine to have transpired before and after a single image».

Do not miss this chance to see epochal works by one of the most influential French street artists, Lek, who brings his latest solo show to Marrakech!

Leaning on its racing heritage, McLaren pairs the official film with a monologue from epochal racing legend Ayrton Senna, itself a sentiment that resonated throughout the development of the new 720S according to McLaren.

The DN explained why it's withholding its endorsement of de Blasio, citing «a persistent record of governing ideology - first, overpromising epochal transformation and blatantly infecting City Hall with the worst pay - to - play culture since the heyday of Democratic Party bossism.»

China's opening to the West furnished them with the esthetic tools to grapple with epochal changes, to question and subvert, implode and rebuild the artistic conventions.

Considered in his full concreteness, God is temporal — but not epochal.

Most interestingly, the weather depicted in Wilson's paintings provides an immersive experience for the viewer, steeped in human vulnerability and anomie, an inspired tradition which extends back to epochal paintings like J.M. Turner's «Sunrise with Sea Monsters» (1845) and Gustave Caillebotte's «Rainy Day» (1877).

Epochal artist Ed Ruscha has built an impressive body of work by staking a claim on the deceptively simple intersection of text and image, creating images that can be read instantaneously yet evade easy understanding.

It reveals a naturalist of epochal importance who has long been only a legend

Such tools could map the spectrum of primordial gravitational waves and perhaps distinguish «kinks and bumps» within it that reveal the earliest and most epochal milestones in the universe's evolution.

Yet an arguably more epochal event occurred the previous year, when the crew of Apollo 8 — astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders — embarked on the first voyage to lunar orbit.

Oscar - winner Karl Malden's epochal films were decades behind him.

Against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous and a world undergoing epochal change, this story of a lifelong friendship is told with unmatched honesty.

If 2016 endures in American history as a year of epochal disaster, then it will be fair to ask, in the grim years to come: how on earth could artists have joked around so much while the darkness gathered?

They are a permeating market presence of epochal significance and yet an idea persists that their influence is invisible.

There is much to be said for the current resurgence of interest in the great epochal books as reflected in the widespread Great Books courses as an educational venture.

Only two influences can modify and uplift the dogmas of natural religion: the pressure of the slowly advancing mores and the periodic illumination of epochal revelation.

A short cut became available in 1869, with the opening of the Suez Canal, an event so epochal that Giuseppe Verdi was asked to compose a hymn for the celebration.

The certified legal nurse professionals perform the most epochal and critical job of investigating the medical services rendered by the organization with a view to come up apposite answers for the determined legal issues.

Richard Billingham's blisteringly honest photos of his alcoholic dad and his mountainous, tattooed mom — Ray and Liz, as they have come to be intimately known — were the toast of Charles Saatchi's epochal late -»90s exhibition «Sensation» and drew crowds again this fall at Frieze, which hosted a presentation peering back to the no - longer - Young British Artist's first solo show.

From this early instance, poetic cinema has evolved over epochal rifts and mergers, from Surrealism and the advent of sound in movies, through Structuralism and Postmodernism.

The result is a lavish yet substantial and eminently watchable filming of an enchanting epochal drama.

They end up of floundering in the old categories, unable to see that something epochal has occurred, a rupture on the scale of the Industrial Revolution or the emergence of civilization itself.

«The Fatal Environment» is the second volume of Richard Slotkin's epochal study of the frontier myth in the cultural history of the United States.

Perhaps it is just a case of «experts» not wanting to know — because if Jahi isn't dead, it would have epochal legal, social, medical, and scientific ramifications.

All comings - to - be are finite: Temporal extension is always epochal.

The Urantia Book within it's own pages claims itself to be the 5th Epochal Revelation of God to man.

2 This seems more adequate and convincing than Whitehead's theory of a biological organism's being a society of epochal subjects, where ongoing integrity, physical or personal, is the task of many actualities, not of an enduring, self - constituting subject.

From this interesting perspective, does time appear microscopically epochal, perpetually perishing, or linearly flowing into a stubborn, or utterly irretrievable, past?

His account, for instance, of the reception of Chaim Bialik's epochal Hebrew poem «In the City of Slaughter» is gripping and memorable.

This would merely transpose the problem of analyzing epochal becoming to another level, not resolve it.