Sentences with phrase «notion of progress»

We must ALL give up the absurd notion of progress and get back to lifeways that sustain us.

In an epoch when older painters tended to work for forty years exploring the same image, Wool blew willy - nilly through different images, often concurrently, challenging traditional notions about artist identity and branding and paint handling as well as the Modernist notion of progress.

For as much as he pillories Rousseau, Bell also rebuffs Hegel and his notion of progress through a dialectic driven by world - historical leaders, seeing it as a destructive paradigm precisely because of its faith in elite influence.

The later Liechtenstein Address continues the criticism of modern Western life, challenging its notion of progress for diminishing the human soul by glorifying materialism and trivializing death.

While the editors struggled with the notion of progress because of the war, they did not lose their faith in its importance as a driving force within history.

Joseph Fessio notes: «It's about heart change, an «integral ecology» that recognizes that «We are not God» and proposes «redefining our notion of progress» and adopting a «responsible simplicity of life, in grateful contemplation of God's world, and in concern for the needs of the poor and the protection of the environment.

Such are the confusions and disappointments, not to say vulnerability to deconstruction, of all notions of progress in history.

Near the end of the year, we read Dostoevsky's devastating short novel, Notes From Underground, with its solitary, restless hero, a no - longer young man who memorably vents his disgust at 19th - century notions of progress, rationality and self - interest and then recounts some dreadfully awkward social encounters from his miserable past.

«This transformative experience evokes notions of progress in relation to mankind's ability to manipulate his surroundings.

The «and / also» culture gets rid of ridiculous notions of progress and ecologically fosters respect for the density of individual attention.

But the unbreakable bond between an artist's individuality and spontaneous painting as a technique invigorates a sense of shared human experience that challenges fixed notions of progress.

Through a shared poetic sensibility, the films register both a personal and a collective loss connected to notions of progress, linear history, technological advancement, and global economies.

As images blend into one another, and the aesthetic connection to colour allows intuition to take over, the work suggest the possibility that our emotions can resist the culture of publicity and reshape notions of progress.

Within Living Memory brings together interconnected bodies of work produced by Green over the past decade that address conditions of residency and displacement, subjective experience, institutional memory, notions of progress, and the inevitability of decay.

Works such as Starling's that address the Anthropocene without leaning back on the clichéd shock imagery of disaster porn, planetary crisis, and dystopian tech - filled landscapes can begin to articulate, in quieter, more nuanced, and ultimately more effective modes, the racial politics, colonial histories, capitalist superstructures and Western notions of progress that underpin its entire existence.

As in Purple, Rose pushes a non-linear understanding of time in relation to the Anthropocene, undoing internalized notions of progress and encouraging a return to the beginning in carving out a post-human future.

Given that the technological and scientific notions of progress inaugurated by the Enlightenment no longer have the same purchase they once did, we have long since abandoned the linear vision of the future the Enlightenment once betokened.

Through her mesmerizing installations, she investigates how visionary narratives and notions of progress affect the way our world is structured both in the present and the future.

Combining such historical concerns with critiques of neoliberalism, Ianni's highly political works speak against notions of progress that are tantamount to what she calls a «systematic denial of the past.»

Hewitt's use of appropriated texts point to the past, asking viewers to reconsider notions of progress and the human condition.

To gain purchase on the atemporality of the current moment, this exhibition of nearly fifty photographs, videos, installations, and sculptures from the past six years highlights eleven artists who reevaluate historical events and notions of progress.

It seems clear that it was such a conflation of scientific notions of progress in evolutionary biology with racialized notions of civilized Progress that made eugenics laws so attractive a century ago — seemingly for the vast majority of American elites.

I think that the greater danger occurs when scientific notions of progress (progress with a small «p,» as Michael Ruse puts it) become embroiled with broader cultural notions of historical improvement (capital «P» Progress).

We desired the contents of the pavilion to ask, 50 years later, what the notions of progress, universalism and happiness had brought in their time through the system of international exhibitions.

These are things that Americans understand and want, and the public meetings that are thrown in regarding how the funds are disbursed are merely play - pretend - castle kind of stuff to suggest that our notions of progress have changed.

Broadband and Notions of Progress But our notions of progress haven't changed.

Not exact matches

Together with Madrona Venture Group, Notion and Vertex Ventures, M12 awarded the four winners a combined $ 3.5 M in venture funding and up to $ 2M in Microsoft Azure credits to help progress the future of artificial intelligence.

The notion of canalization suggests that social order, far from decreasing the intensity of experience, may actually increase it: «The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order....

Despite their differences, these thinkers all agree in rejecting the notion of continuous evolutionary progress.

Progress in truth — truth of science and truth of religion — is mainly a progress in the framing of concepts, in discarding artificial abstractions or partial metaphors, and in evolving notions which strike more deeply into the root of realityProgress in truth — truth of science and truth of religion — is mainly a progress in the framing of concepts, in discarding artificial abstractions or partial metaphors, and in evolving notions which strike more deeply into the root of realityprogress in the framing of concepts, in discarding artificial abstractions or partial metaphors, and in evolving notions which strike more deeply into the root of reality.»

For example, the notion of automatic progress, which seemed to follow rather naturally from nineteenth - century evolutionism, can not be deduced so readily from this context.

Otherwise we are back where we began: with officially exorcised but practically, dominant programs of Western and modern stories of progress; with monological forms of rationality and increasingly brittle notions of a self seemingly coherent but actually possessive and consumerist; with «others» present, if at all, only as projections of our modem selves, our desires, wants, needs.

Within Protestant circles, 19th century liberalism, if I may oversimplify, adopted evolutionary ideas to support the notion of automatic progress.

Hegel's understanding of the forward progress of the will through the history of culture is richer than Kant's, but it leads to a notion of the completion of the will in «absolute knowledge,» a metaphysical abstraction which Hegel's critics, Ricoeur among them, find pretentious and impossible.

Christians quickly embraced the notion that increased communication would bring about enlightenment and progress, just as sixteenth - century Protestants had seen printing as a providential device to overcome ignorance and superstition and «bring Western Europe out of the dark ages.»

Notions of purpose and life began to recede from biological interest as chemical explanation progressed.

Optimistic notions of inevitable, and almost effortless, progress are oblivious to this truth.

Perhaps nothing in human history ever vanishes completely — a disturbing or consoling notion, depending on the degree of one's faith in progress, but there it is: Astarte is alive and well, and if she lives anywhere, I suppose, it is in California.

We have distinguished, of course, between such process and the idiotic and superficial notion of inevitable progress.

These are years of growth in which the individual progresses from a personally centered idea of the self into a notion of selfhood that is constituted by a vaster and profounder world than he or she knew as a child.

That kind of bias is totally counterproductive to Arsenal getting better, this notion we have it all is detrimental to progress and people need a reality check.

I also did not want the notion of entitlement (this is a major work in progress in all areas, not just financial, in my home and I'm sure most) that you get paid for doing nothing.

«For Pattern for Progress, which has spent years working on shared services and consolidation of services in school districts, in towns, in villages, the notion that some of the tax relief money will be used to incentivize further efforts in this area is terrific, because it is something that always needs a push,» says Drapkin.

Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions challenged cherished notions of logical progress.

One reason for chaoplexity's lack of progress may be the notorious butterfly effect, the notion that tiny changes in initial conditions can eventually yield huge consequences in a chaotic system; the classic example is that the beating of a butterfly's wings could eventually trigger the formation of a tornado.

Alberta will introduce a $ 15.25 per metric ton tax on 1 January 2017 (rising to $ 22.87 by 2018), but Premier Rachel Notley said in a statement that although the province supports the notion of national carbon pricing, it «will not be supporting this proposal absent serious concurrent progress on energy infrastructure, to ensure we have the economic means to fund these policies.»

This program has been built upon the notion that progress can be expected only if new discoveries about disease mechanisms are made, which pave the way to the development of better pharmacothearpies and / or prevention strategies.

We can regain fulfilling, powerful moments of intimacy when we cut those strings and erase from our minds the outdated notion that sex must «progress» around the bases.

The scientific aspects of the film are probably not going to impress many who have a basic notion of science, especially in astrophysics, or just in common sense as far as how our technological advancements (especially in space travel) will probably progress in the next 50 years or so, but to judge it on that level will probably ruin the rumination on the film's larger questions regarding humanity and its right to existence.

Those who buy the notion that the Coleman Report basically got it right might ask why we have not made more progress in improving the quality of the teacher workforce (or schools more generally).