Sentences with phrase «notions of human identity»

Splicing humour with menace, his works often use wordplay and distortion to explore notions of human identity — circling in on deep - seated fears and compulsions, and our potential for violence.

The movie's eerie, climactic image challenges our conventional notions of human identity... Full Review

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The self - identity of human beings, at least, is in that sense a normative notion.

Direct link between our brains and computers are set to challenge our notions of identity, culpability and the acceptable limits of human enhancement

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.

Black is the Day, Black is the Night is a conceptual exploration into the many facets of human identity using notions of time, accumulation, memory and distance through personal correspondence with men serving life and death row sentences in some of the most maximum security prisons in the U.S., all of which had served between 13 - 26 years at point of contact.

Paul Virilio While the world has reached a critical moment in its history, where the environment conditions what humans do and what they will become, the exhibition Native Land, Stop Eject proposes a reflection on the notions of being rooted and uprooted, as well as related questions of identity.

Themes explored in the exhibition include emergent ideas of the body and notions of human enhancement; the internet as a site of both surveillance and resistance; the circulation and control of images and information; the possibilities for exploring identity and community afforded by virtual domains; and new economies of visibility accelerated by social media.

Then perhaps exhibitions like this one won't be necessary, and shows can be based upon themes and ideas rather than identity politics, which continues to dominate the national consciousness, perverting notions of quality and ghettoizing creative and human potential.