By
objectifying processes of decision - making, Janssen seeks to enable the work to describe itself as resulting from intrinsic causes.
This theological perspective has a profound implications for the correction of the scientific epistemology, which tends to regard as the objective and
objectifying process, although nowadays there are efforts to correct this situation among the scientists and philosophers of science.
But take it further, as with Cathy Ward and Eric Wright's sculptural installation Transromantik — Volksgeist, push Romanticism to its limit,
objectify the processes of objectification, and something else begins to happen.
Not exact matches
From the phone trees most companies have that infuriate EVERY CUSTOMER, to a highly structured but ineffective development
process, to
objectifying our customers and prospects as numbers rather than humans.
First of all, upon completion of its
process of concrescence, an occasion becomes a superject; that is, it
objectifies itself so that it can be prehended by later occasions (PR 219f / 335f).
So, if a satisfied actual entity is
objectified (as it must be), it is a part in another
process / whole.
Perhaps little can be said, but this transition which originates a new
process / whole must be carefully distinguished from the creative
process which originates a new object / part, a one of many that is
objectified in others.
In this way, all of the many that have been actualized, the complete multiplicity, of the cosmos (except immediately prior and noncontiguous contemporaries) is
objectified for each actual entity with some degree of importance however minuscule (Religion 108 and
Process 22, Principle of Relativity).
A new whole exists as soon as the many are
objectified within a new
process at transition.
Perception in the mode of presentational immediacy
objectifies the actual entities «within one particular duration»: «the «presented duration»» (
Process 321).
However,
process thought seems to allow no place for such privileged objectification because if an occasion is
objectified for one, it is
objectified for all (see the Principle of Relativity, PR 22/33).
These statements give something of the flavor of this early theory: «the first stage of the
process of feeling is the reception into the responsive conformity of feeling whereby the datum, which is mere potentiality, becomes the individualized basis for a complex unity of realization» (PR 113C).3 Or, later, «The
objectified particular occasions together have the unity of a datum for the creative concrescence» (PR 210C).
We never
objectify an object except in an interpreted form, and this is because we
objectify objects only by making them constituents of our own
processes in which they must be selectively harmonized with other constituents.
Whitehead would give later in
Process and Reality a metaphysical explanation of how we may
objectify precisely an individual thing from vague feelings by his description of indicative feelings (PR 260).
Likewise, the objective datum Y of a new feeling X
objectifies its initial datum (the actual entity B) for a new
process of concrescence (the actual entity A).
Through a
process we might call «psychic distancing,» not only were humans able to look critically at the communities of which they were a part, increasingly they gained the capacity to «
objectify» and examine themselves.
See
Process and Reality, the definition of causal objectification as the transmission, by a subject, of what it
objectifies to the future actual entities: «In «causal objectification» what is felt subjectively by the
objectified actual entity is transmitted objectively to the concrescent actualities that supersede it» (58).
The
process theory of sequential societies of actualities, each of which is created and then persists thereafter as an
objectified datum of prehension in later actualities, seems calculated to take the complexities into account more definitely and naturally than any talk about a rigorous continuity of action defining a single, identical, yet changing individual.
On the other hand, if we abstract from that which feels, if we consider this
process in view of the unification of
objectified occasions, then we can confirm that feeling relates to the «concept of the actual world,» that is to that nexus which achieves concrete unity in the feeling occasion, etc..
The basic ideas of this theory may best be explained with regard to the
objectified occasions which constitute the data of the feeling occasion in the
process of concrescence.
Objectified occasions, before they become data in the
process of concrescence under consideration, are themselves always functioning as subjectivity in their own
process.
After its world, its subjectivity, this room for development, has been exhausted, after the achievement of its subjective aim, which is its supreme concretion and unity, it is now to be regarded as occurring in various other
processes of concrescence as
objectified, as a datum.
With their situations varying in every case,
objectified in differing ways by other occasions, they enter into a multitude of contexts, and in so doing they pass along to other
processes the complexity which they have achieved and formed in their subjectivity as a «lure for feeling.»
Although the occasions in the environment of a self - concretizing occasion do not form exclusively its relative actual world and are not
objectified only by this occasion — although every occasion, standing in many different nexus with other occasions, enters as their datum into many
processes of concrescence — we must still adhere to this relativity of the actual world.
The conception of the «perishing» of the
objectified occasion in other
processes of concretion has been so important for Whitehead that he declared it to be the key to
Process and Reality (cf. ESP 117).
Because of the singularity of actual occasions in the
process of concretion, this exhausting of the perspectives of the preceding occasions never becomes a complete reproduction in the sense of a renewed occurrence of the subjectivity of these
objectified occasions.
Rather, the knower - known relation is a late sophistication upon a fundamental feature of the interaction of actual entities: that in any
process of concrescence there are dative actual entities being «felt» or
objectified, and
objectifying or «feeling» actual entities on their way to subjective realization.
These offerings, whenever they begin and however long it takes to make them, must be
objectified in some cosmic moment or other, lust as that cosmic
process begins, in order to assure nothing is lost.
The rhythm, Whitehead says, «swings from the publicity of many things to the individual privacy; and it swings back from the private individual to the publicity of the
objectified individual» (
Process 151).
Indeed, the term video confrontation has been used to describe critical observation of self - video (Fuller & Manning, 1973), a
process that requires teachers to separate from and
objectify their on - camera selves (Greenwalt, 2008).
Not only do we make it easy for libraries to implement — the ebooks are stored on our platform so just a few lines of code is needed to add to their website — we've already automated and
objectified the scouting
process through reader votes, chapter - by - chapter publication, and our analytics tools.
Some places with BSL use checklists for breed identification in an attempt to standardize and
objectify identification
processes.
Through the
process of painting, Butler is able to address not the object and its psychology, as much as the way in which it is transformed by the artist's gaze that
objectifies it.
In this exchange, I went as far as to
objectify his artistic
processes into a pinned down, marbled shelter,...
On one hand, the raw assemblages by Galindo, result of the collection of object subtracted from abandonment and witnessing a border, a crossing; on the other hand, the elegant sculptures by Matteo Nasini, algid and geometric shapes that
objectify the brain activity during dreaming, thus solidifications of non-functional thought and memory
processes.