Sentences with phrase «for social utopia»

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There it wasn't so much about deconstructing theological concepts for reconstructing a theoretical utopia, but in working side - by - side as partners in social transformation enterprises that fit the context of the communities the Spirit planted us in.

From Plato's Republic to the several visions of H. G. Wells, the Utopias have served as the vehicles for the expression of wisdom about life, social preachment, and sheer imaginative delight.

Refusing to accept the ethical postulate conjoining self - realization and the social good which was at the heart of Dewey's ethics throughout his career, Rorty has argued for a «liberal utopia» in which there prevails a rigid division between a rich, autonomous private sphere that will enable elite «ironists» like himself to create freely the self they wish — even if that bares a cruel, antidemocratic self — and a lean, egalitiarian, «democratic» public life confined to the task of preventing cruelty (including that of elite ironists).

(2) The «utopia» of peace and justice (i.e., the expectation of «a new age») is not an ideal construction from which certain consequences are derived for specific situations but, on the contrary, it is the coming together in a vision of the specific struggle of the community to solve the conflicts, contradictions and difficulties that they find in everyday life — political, social, religious, economic.

What can we do as educational and cultural workers, at this crucial moment in history, when corporate revenue expands as the job market shrinks, when there is such a callous disregard for human suffering and human life, when the indomitable human spirit gasps for air in an atmosphere of intellectual paralysis, social amnesia, and political quiescence, when the translucent hues of hope seem ever more ethereal, when thinking about the future seems anachronistic, when the concept of utopia has become irretrievably Disneyfied, when our social roles as citizens have become increasingly corporatized and instrumentalized in a world which hides necessity in the name of consumer desire, when media analyses of military invasions is just another infomercial for the US military industrial complex with its huge global arms industry, and when teachers and students alike wallow in absurdity, waiting for the junkyard of consumer life to vomit up yet another panacea for despair?

His playful work addresses complex social topics, such as the yearning for utopia, the lure of spectacle in mass media, and the impact of Modernism on contemporary values and belief systems.

While blurring the traditional distinction between fiction and reality — and revealing the experience of fiction to be as palpable as anything in daily life — Huyghe's playful work often addresses complex social topics, such as the yearning for utopia, the lure of spectacle in mass media, and the impact of Modernism on contemporary values and belief systems.

The objects on the tables are a combination of prototypes, potential signage and models, and they have been developed around Gillick's ongoing engagement with writing on social utopias; in particular he has been working on a series of texts, exhibitions and lectures with the overall title Construcción de Uno for a number of years.

She has worked as Project Director and Curator for the FIGMENT Sculpture Garden on Governors Island and her original annual exhibition series, Brooklyn Utopias, engaging local social and environmental issues.

This represents another challenge for Hippie Modernism: disentangling utopia from connotations of idealism that stem from privilege and social homogeneity.

Recent solo projects and exhibitions include: Almost Midnight, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, 2017; Assemble, performance night, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, 2017; I, Mole Antonelliana, Turin, in collaboration with National Cinema Museum of Turin, 2016; Functions and Fictions, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, 2016; Dead Men Tell no Tales, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, 2016; More than Real, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, 2015; The Ghost and the Host, Pavillon Social Kunstverein, Lucca, 2014; Utopias are for Birds, Chert, Berlin, 2012.

Solo Exhibitions 2018 Hibernation, with Linda Kuhn, Curated by Julia Heunemann and Nadia Pilchowski, Bärenzwinger, Berlin 2017 AltBau, ChertLüdde, Berlin Almost Midnight, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin Solo presentation, ART - O-RAMA, Marseilles Assemble, Performance on the 25th Anniversary of the Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn 2016 I, curated by Treti Galaxie, Mole Antonelliana, National Cinema Museum of Turin Functions and Fictions & Be my Muse, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels (Performance Night) Dead Men Tell No Tales, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (Performance Night) 2015 Deep Down, Porcino Gallery, Berlin More than Real, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (Performance Night) 2014 The Ghost and the Host, Pavillon Social Kunstverein, Lucca 2012 Utopias are for Birds, Outdoor exhibition, Chert, Berlin 2011 Expanding Univereses (An Ongoing Map), Kunstverein Arnsberg

It's all as it was in those happy carefree days of 2009 and before, BC (yes, Before Cli **** ga **) as we call it now, when the MSM would happily «highlight the most alarmist aspects and downplay any mention of uncertainty» (Zorita), when no doubts were allowed, or should I say expressed, about the holy trilogy of WG1, 2, and 3 — how certain it was that the well - accepted theory of ghg effect, and the impacts thereof, would lead to a Copenhagen / Kyoto utopia of global cooperation, and that the IPCC was cool (whoops, «the request for more research about the social dynamics of the IPCC, of positive feedbacks as described by Judith, is meaningful for me» (von Storch).)