Sentences with phrase «notion of individual identity»

I do not intend by my remarks about space - time to imply that, if Peirce had known relativity physics, he would have given up his notion of individual identity as consisting in a continuity of reactions and accepted the idea of a definite single event as intelligible by itself.

Peirce did make use of a rather unusual notion of individual identity as analogous to a continuous «line,» a continuity, of reactions.

But he never confused this logical notion of identity («things are identical» when every predicate is true of both or false of both» [3.398]-RRB- with the notion of individual identity through time, which is at issue here.

Influenced by the politics and identity of post-1997 Hong Kong as well as the tradition of Performance Art, Pak's distinctive methodology towards «adaptation» consists of inserting himself as the subject into the equation, adopting this position to question and explore the notion of individual identities against the new globalised societies and realities that are of extreme relevance to the ongoing modernisation of Asia's mega cities.

Not exact matches

I was very interested in this whole notion of each of us as individual professionals who are on the Internet and how that changes the way we do business, our careers, our brand identity.

First, there is the notion of an individual or «primary» substance, an ousia in Aristotle's sense, which retains its individual identity through change and of which universals are predicable, while it itself is predicable of nothing.

This, of course, is where the notion of group identity enters into the reparations argument, since the crime of slavery — by the logic of modern reparations — was committed, not against individuals, but against a group (African - Americans) and therefore reparations can be paid to a group (African - American descendants).

In the place of sexual identity, which is considered a thing of the past, queer theory proposes the notion of a «sexual orientation» chosen by each individual based upon the gender that somehow defines his or her interior being.

For years, David Cronenberg's filmography has wrestled with questions of identity, the notion of what makes an individual so, even if they're seemingly hiding in another's skin.

The individual human mind has amassed a wealth of evidence to support the notion that it is an important separate identity and, put very simply, that sense of being a separate identity is the first step to murder.

«The crux was to explore how I could suspend race, and by extension identity, as an overlying component, and really focus on the construction of identity, particularly the construction of an image, and how often we as a society can fall into prescribed notions of individuals and groups of people as a whole,» she said.

Two narrative threads will unfold throughout the exhibition, circling around the notions of transparency and opacity, and giving vision to Jonas» engagement with the environment and her capacity to not only desynchronize the gaze upon the Self, but to deconstruct the power structures at the heart of the relationship between individual identity and collective memory.

Tseng Kwong Chi (1950 - 1990) was not only a photographer but a performance artist, provocateur and documentarian who traversed the globe subversively exploring notions of cultural identity, perception and the role of the individual amidst iconic and sublime locations of the world.

The» push - pull» resistance between the character and his «carry - on» bag evokes notions of transnational movement and the burdens of identity, highlighting the relationship between the individual figure and society.

By positioning the body in space she raises questions about identity and «otherness», and notions of the individual and the social.

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, continues its 50th Anniversary celebrations with a new exhibition addressing notions of individual and collective social identity within society.

This work examines individual notions of place and its effect on personal identity and growth.

24 In 9-11-01, a monumental work measuring 20 x 10 feet, Whitten transcends the personal or the «notion of self» and divisions of individual identity, to a collective consciousness — history.

The large - scale paintings similarly embody this notion of individual and collective identity.

Our turn is the notion of art as a tool to build identities, to paraphrase Michel Houellebecq, «you can work in isolation for years, and in fact this is the only way to work, but then comes the moment when you have to show your work to the world, not for getting the judgement of the public towards your work but to make sure that your artistic work really exists and indeed to make sure of your own existence as individual.

Ever since he completed his groundbreaking Flag (1954 - 55), Jasper Johns has persistently and, for many, annoyingly defined himself as an individual of no special merit, fixed identity, or authorial «I,» who stands outside both the Marxist definition of worker and the romanticized notion of the artist as hero.

His art gradually cast off individual identity as his creations entered into a more sweeping perspective that revealed a cultural exploration of the notions of space and time.

Her projects often explore specific sites, public spaces or particular communities in order to locate notions of individual and collective identities.

Her projects often explore specific sites and public spaces in order to locate notions of individual and collective identities.