Sentences with phrase «for cultural criticisms»

The problem begins with those who mistake racism for cultural criticisms — very complex, divisive forces that will no doubt be here for a long time.

But to use him as the sole foundation for our cultural criticism is a shaky prospect.

Apple rescinds statement about political games: It'd be great to see Paper's Please up on the App Store and then maybe they'll take that dumb line back about books and movies being the only form of art suited for cultural criticism.

As Johanna Drucker points out, writers tend to mistake art complicit with mass culture for cultural criticism.

While he understood that art was innately political and, by necessity, a vehicle for cultural criticism, he believed that social critique and enjoyment were not, by any means, mutually exclusive.

Not exact matches

However, these initiatives have drawn criticism for appealing to Malay nationalist sentiments without understanding the economic realities of various other cultural groups.

Ward and Loughlin are engaged in sophisticated cultural criticism, parody, irony, and a fluid combination of discourses from postmodern philosophy, Christian tradition and gender studies, and both their style and content seem ill at ease with confident programmatic statements and a preference for Augustine / Aquinas as the theological «default setting.»

A failure to explore how the activity of theological inquiry is located in and inescapably shaped by patterns of activity that are dictated by its social and cultural setting and, just as important, patterns that are dictated by institutional power arrangements, deprives theological inquiry of the means for its self - criticism and correction.

That is, while conservative leaders are only too happy to appropriate Kirk's name for the purpose of gaining intellectual credibility, they just as quickly ignore the specifics of his cultural criticism.

Not on a par with current feminist cultural criticism, but not too bad for 25 years ago, and for a man.

Tinder, by contrast, has a narrower view of the function of a prophetic stance, and although it is arguably correct for our present American cultural and political circumstances, his making it central to all Christian politics leads him to some harsh criticism of theological ideas of justice that have arisen in other situations.

In answer to the criticism that WCC is syncretistic because of its program for inter-religious dialogue, Thomas said that if the word syncretism denotes all processes of interpenetration between cultures and religions, the only answer to a wrong syncretism, which means the uncritical, superficial, normless mixing of basically incompatible religious concepts and cultural attitudes, is a Christ - centered syncretism which grapples with and evaluates all concepts and attitudes critically in the light of Jesus Christ and converts them into vehicles for communicating the truth of the Gospel and for expressing its meaning for life.

This reading practice, offering a purchase on literature to anyone who wanted one, receded in the 1970s as pedagogues turned from New Criticism to Big Theory, and further in the 1990s as poetry and novels lost prestige and young people no longer aspired to read them closely for cultural capital.

Because of this exclusion, feminists are calling for the criticism of dominant cultural symbols in light of women's experience of the world.

This article examines Whitehead's theory of perception to indicate how this theory provides a philosophical reinterpretation for two issues of concern to feminists: criticism of cultural symbols, including language, and the importance of intuition and emotion, usually associated with women, in experience.

Whereas the second Quest demythologized the apocalyptic eschatology that informed Jesus» message of the kingdom in such a way that the kingdom remained God's initiative and gift eliciting a new ethos, thereby respecting the biblical - Jewish roots of Jesus» word and deed, the Borg - Crossan construal tacitly posits an inert deity who at best provides a formal warrant for a class - based cultural criticism and who apparently has allowed the covenant - commitment to Israel to lapse, for there remains neither promise nonfulfillment.

To distance Huawei's meetings from the still - fresh memories of humiliating public denunciations during the Cultural Revolution, Ren likened Huawei's practice of self - criticism to «hitting yourself with a soft pillow: though the blows are gentle, they will remind you to constantly strive for better performance.»

Once known for its investigative reporting and cutting - edge cultural criticism, the Voice launched the careers of writers including Wayne Barrett, Robert Christgau and Molly Haskell and is the recipient of three Pulitzer Prizes.

So the board reserved its severest criticism for the agency's bureaucracy, charging that NASA suffers from a «broken safety culture» and warning that «unless the technical, organizational, and cultural recommendations made in this report are implemented, little will have been accomplished to lessen the chance that another accident will follow.»

The thinkers were chosen for «engaging in original and profound ways with the central questions of the world today,» as well as for their continuing significance for «this year's biggest questions» (in economics, science, philosophy, cultural and social criticism and in politics).

There's no time for anthropology, psychology or cultural criticism.

The heyday for American film criticism was the»70s because I think the people that got into it at that point were really inspired by the likes of Andrew Sarris and Pauline Kael, both of whom became famous and established the importance of film critics as a cultural force.

Roxane Gay's debut, An Untamed State, was published in May, but before she became a novelist she was known for her penetrating essays and cultural criticism.

For Kojima, a game is not just a medium of entertainment, but a tool for social, political, and cultural criticiFor Kojima, a game is not just a medium of entertainment, but a tool for social, political, and cultural criticifor social, political, and cultural criticism.

Kuspit is one of America's most distinguished art critics with many accolades such as the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism in 1983, the Tenth Annual Award for Excellence in the Arts from the Newington - Cropsey Foundation in 2008 and in 2014 he was the first recipient of the Gabarron Foundation Award for Cultural Thought.

And Artforum was still the locus of formalist criticism, which was proving increasingly unable to account for art that contributed to larger cultural movements, like Civil Rights, women's liberation, anti-war protests, and more.

CONVENING After an initial gathering in 2013, Theaster Gates convenes a second Black Artists Retreat in Chicago (Aug. 21 - 23), an inter-generational dialogue exploring Black cultural production and opportunities for collaboration via research, advocacy, criticism and exhibition, and curates «Retreat,» a complementary show at Valerie Carberry Gallery and Richard Gray Gallery.

Huang Rui, a non-conformist Chinese contemporary artist is internationally known for his artistic expression of social and cultural criticism in painting, installation, and performance art.

- Ken Goldberg1 Conceptual artist Ken Goldberg combines robotics with cultural criticism to create art for and about the Internet.

As his career has progressed from his start as an editor for Rolling Stone, his work has also evolved from straightforward music criticism to broader cultural commentary.

He was, says Aaron Cutler in Slant, «a «fuck this» artist, not just for savage cultural criticism lightly guised as celebration, but because of the myriad ways in which he offered it, shifting style as soon as it bored him.

Between 1985 and 2002 Rugoff wrote art and cultural criticism for numerous periodicals, publishing in art magazines and newspapers, including Artforum, Parkett, The Los Angeles Times, The Financial Times and The Los Angeles Weekly.

She has authored and contributed to publications for the Guggenheim Museum, Vancouver Art Gallery, Walker Art Center, and Yale University Art Gallery, as well as journals such as Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism and Object Magazine.

For the past fifty years, Rolling Stone has been a leading voice in journalism, cultural criticism, and - above all — music.

In the 1930s, she focused on writing and criticism, working as a cultural reporter for Berliner Tageblatt, and as a fashion editor for Zeitschrift für Deutsche Konfektion.

Lau is the chairman of the curatorial office Society for Experimental Cultural Production and was awarded the Chinese Contemporary Art Awards» jury prize for art criticism in 2011.

Since 2000, Soomre has been writing art criticism for the Estonian press and served as an art editor for a local, cultural, weekly publication.

She has presented lectures and talks at a number of international venues and writes regularly for Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism.

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Between 1985 and 2002 he wrote art and cultural criticism for numerous periodicals, publishing widely in art magazines as well as newspapers, including Artforum, Artpresse, FlashArt, Frieze, Parkett, Grand Street, The Financial Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Los Angeles Weekly, and published a collection of essays, Circus Americanus (1995), in which he explored cultural phenomena of the American West.

The key subject of the course is the Exhibition as Communicative Space and will include: discussions about criticism and analysis of comprehensive phenomenon of how contemporary art, design, architecture, sound and performance, and publications as dominant art forms of visual culture adapt, co-exist, and conflict with market system; the course will reflect upon creative responses to conflict and crisis versus problems of value judgment on today's market - led cultural phenomenon and cultural movement, and the role of curator as a cultural translator and mediator between the two; and exploration of alternatives for ecological health of increasingly globalized art and culture.

This quest for new forms of Black subjectivity is one that Jafa has been seeking through his cultural criticism, his archive and previous cinematic accomplishment Daughters of the Dust and, more recently, Solange's Cranes in the Sky and Don't Touch my Hair.

Takashi Murakami is a Japanese painter and sculptor of international renown, widely known for his extraordinary works that wonderfully fuse together different elements of fine art, cultural criticism, commercialism and Japanese aesthetics.

His conversion to the Muslim faith and opposition to the Vietnam War made him a lightning rod for criticism, exposing the cultural fault lines of that decade.

Huang Rui, a non-conformist Chinese contemporary artist is internationally known for his artisitc expression of social and cultural criticism in painting, installation, and performance art.