Sentences with phrase «facticity of»

«The Production of an Unevenly Distributed Surplus Results from the Facticity of Format and Ground», 2006 oil on canvas 215 x 183,5 cm

Corwin begins: «Surface and the illusion of surface are the heart of the matter in the work of two abstract painters whose recent exhibitions in Brooklyn dangle the mystery of process and the indisputable facticity of material before the viewer.

For Twombly, however, the facticity of paint seems almost incidental, and so do the lofty aspirations of formalists and metaphysicians.

8:45, 9:15 pm Floor Six Meredith Mowder discusses Green Screen # 7 by Liz Deschenes, Red Alert by Hito Steyerl, and The Production of an Unevenly Distributed Surplus Results from the Facticity of Format and Ground by Cheyney Thompson in Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner.

About the Artists Jonathan Allen (London, England) is an artist and writer whose work addresses the figuring of agency, the facticity of the image, and most recently the various magics at play within late modernity.

(We are not concerned here with questions of the historical facticity of the ancestor narratives in the Bible.

For the same reason that all the «proofs» for the existence of God that are based on the design or the very facticity of the world must fail, so also must all «proofs» on the basis of «miracle» fail.

There is, admittedly, something heretical in minimizing the importance of the historical facticity of the foundation on which the Christian community stands.

If the chief concern is that of defending the facticity of revelation (usually too narrowly defined), then the content and significance of revelation remain unexplored.

Along with duration, the facticity of freedom serves as a postulate for the rest of his thought.

I find it equally difficult to obtain comfort for those children of history who are old enough to find themselves the victims of violence, imposed either from without by the cruelty of empires, or from within by the brute facticity of illness.

One thing more is familiar — and, one would think, embarrassing for the literalists — out of the history of millenarianism: those who assert the literal and plenary facticity of the Bible can not agree on what its facts are.

But what counts is probably not so much the facticity of the miracle as the signification Naaman perceives in it.

He considers Wright's arguments for the historical facticity of Jesus's resurrection to be unconvincing and Paul Johnson's work to be contradictory.

Not exact matches

One way to illustrate the full scope of this problem would be to look more closely at the horizonal character of the ecstatic past in contrast with the past of the ordinary interpretation of time, which is only understood by negative contrast with the present.5 Here Mason, apparently following Whitehead, allows us to make a particularly striking contrast: we can never change the past» he says (p. 95), meaning to evoke what Heidegger calls Dasein's «facticity» and to compare it with the objectivity with which perished actual occasions confront the concrescing actual entity in Whitehead.

Against the background of forms as possibilities Whitehead achieves a new concept of facticity as that of the act of a «decision» among possibilities.

One watches with interest to see whether the weight of facticity will change the media's coverage of AIDS as a plague that puts everybody at risk.

Rather, the problem is that of sheer knowledge, of how to accede linguistically to the aesthetic value in the sheer relationality and facticity before one's eyes.20 To regard such a poem as a proposition is to make it a banality; and for the Western, scientifically - minded, academic intellectual that is no trick at all.

In our own time, the dominance of facticity characteristic of a technological age has tended to submerge the normal channels of emotional life, often producing abnormal and unhealthy emotionalism when they do surface.

Our own age, committed as it is to facticity and to the literal sequences of printed words can easily forget its indebtedness to imagination.

But the stronger the rational proof of revelation's facticity, the less room was left for freedom and grace.

It is more than a bare statement of our facticity.

The «program» is evaluated in terms of palpable production which can be totaled with the same hard - boiled facticity as characterizes a merchandising operation — and commonly is.

sciences normally don't question their own existence and cognitive operations, nor does knowledge of the universe occur anywhere except within the persons who know it: «science is not capable of dealing with the question of its own facticity... In

It lies in the realm of mere facticity, which is a mixture of accident and necessity.

For the phrase «irresistible datum» is in apposition to the word «lure»; this suggests to me that we should not make too much of the word «irresistible»; moreover, every datum is irresistible for later occasions in its facticity, though not in the use which they make of it.

In both cases, individuals must become more proactive in their attempts to avoid a wholly nihilistic interpretation of their own facticity: in other words, individuals have to relearn to take charge of themselves, so as to avoid degenerating into complete physical and intellectual dependency on the society around them.

Their experimental mode of production, use of alternative materials and visceral facticity align the artist with other European and American painters working in this decade such as Alberto Burri, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, Cy Twombly, Jay DeFeo and Hassel Smith.

A possible reminder of Jasper Johns's or Sylvia Plimack Mangold's use of the literal within a play of illusion, it accentuates material facticity.

These immediate objects have both everything and nothing to do with anything at all but the continuous unfolding arc of their constituent facticity.

In other words, Mosset's work doesn't rely upon any historical dialectic of the ontological narrative and its attendant «facticity,» so much as it calls forth a direct encounter with the materiality of being sans the argument of the fact.