The collision of material preservation and more internalized alchemical detail exposes Reus» relationship to
object making as one which communicates the universal meanings embedded within all materials, but also the transformative strategies we use to mobilize the everyday.
Currently on view at Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles is «Objective», an exhibition of work by five artists who use the conditions and methods of
object making as a way to locate their ideas...
Utilizing the handmade as a way to take in and process life's experience, PEET views
his object making as a means to translate energy from himself to others.
Not exact matches
It only took seven hours for the team to whip out the
object as opposed to the 22 hours it took the team to
make the prototype using more traditional methods, she said.
In addition to building the first light gun — a gun - shaped controller that allows users to shoot
objects on screen — he created the forerunner to Atari's Pong game
as well
as the colorful electronic memory game Simon, which
made its debut in 1978 at Studio 54 and continues to be sold today.
Three - dimensional printing, also known
as additive manufacturing, has been around since the 1980s, but only recently has the technology become sophisticated enough to
make complex
objects like airplane parts.
Of course, you could immediately
object that selecting artwork is not the same thing
as making more substantive choices, like whether to open another branch of your business, relocate your family, or quit your job.
She
objects to any characterization of herself
as an opportunist, despite her current «
Make America Horny Again» tour.
The reason they chose gold versus other
objects is important - gold has certain characteristics that
make it a better «store of value» (
as it is commonly known) than other
objects:
Not - for - profits can engage in profit -
making activities
as long
as those activities are compatible with the not - for - profit
objects of the NFP, and the profits are used exclusively for promoting its stated goals.
It has been the sins of the Leviathan and Dynasau not only to
make all humans
as objects of exploitation and oppression, but it is also the sin to
make the created things the
object of the exploitation, for these sins are to turn the God's created garden into the jungle.
Nay,
as they occur in Exodus 9:16, they scarce mean even that, but only that God had kept Pharaoh from dying in the preceding plague, so
as to be
made the more fully an
object lesson to all men.
And from There You Shall Seek by Joseph Soloveitchik Ktav, 230 pages, $ 29.50 Near the end of Courage to Be, Paul Tillich writes: «God
as a subject
makes me into an
object which is nothing more than an
object.
A daughter at the table says it quietly, head over her dinner, «Women aren't
made as an
object for man's purposes.
There can be no doubt that God
makes decisions a propos of the disjunctive multiplicity of eternal
objects; the difficulty is to establish in precisely what sense these divine decisions are distinguishable from the choices and calculations
made by the Leibnizian deity Whitehead's dilemma seems to be this: on the one hand, the principle of classification is to be challenged by positing the primordiality of a world of eternal
objects that knows «no exclusions, expressive in logical terms»; on the other hand, positing pure potentiality
as a «boundless and unstructured infinity» (IWM 252) lacking all logical order would seem to be precisely that conceptual move which renders it «inefficacious» or «irrelevant.»
(1) The concrete universal
as the individual seen in conjunction with the thought structure implied in it, that which
makes it an intelligible unity, is neither a naively conceived sense -
object, nor an abstract logical universal.
Idolatry is
making primary and central — treating
as the
object of ultimate devotion — something unworthy of that status, something other than God.
With the definition of religion given, Marxism would have to be considered a religion, at least for those who do not use it
as a means to some political or economic end, but who find «in the conception of the «dialectic of history» with its inevitability, its total relevance, its impersonal justice -
making power, the
object of supreme valuation and complete relevance to life....
Like the Leibnizian monad, the occasion is individuated by its individual essence, its particular perspective; but unlike the Leibnizian monad this essence is not predicated of the occasion
as a substantial substratum, but enters into the inner constitution of the occasion
as «a vector transmission of emotional feeling» or, in the language of physics, «the transmission of a form of energy» from past occasions via the eternal
objects that communicate the emotional form and
make possible the subsequent reenactment by the prehending occasion (PR 315 / 479f.).
Bread is not forgotten and,
as the symbol of life's physical basis, is
made an
object of request in the Lord's Prayer.
I would argue that the Jew thereby
made a contribution to civil peace by being hard to focus upon
as the
object of prejudices and hatreds.
In terms of eternal
objects we may say that he reaches
as far
as the most distant standpoint he has
made relevant by associating it with a specific eternal
object (thereby perhaps
making that eternal
object first relevant).
To
make an
object lesson, one nation in particular is on notice that it is listed
as first for destruction.
At the laying of the cornerstone for the institution on September 24, 1858, Bellows
made a statement upon which those who
object to the treatment of alcoholism
as a sickness could well ponder today, over one hundred years later:
It necessarily includes others
as aspects of itself, but the essence of a self, a whole, is the drive to
make something new and pass it on
as a determinate condition for others, not merely to
make an
object determinate in the actual spatio - temporal nexus already (eternally) specified conceptually.
Husserl
makes a distinction between the
object which is intended (the «natural»
object whose being is bracketed in the phenomenological reduction) and the
object as it is intended.
As Emmanuel Levinas states: «Intentionality is not the way in which a subject tries to
make contact with an
object that exists beside it.
- «The scholarly community will need to see the full report and images of the artifacts to
make a judgment in regard to the interpretation of these
objects as coins,» Steven Ortiz, associate professor of archaeology and biblical backgrounds at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, said.
But perhaps the most interesting idea to arise in this chapter is James's suggestion that the stream of thought is
made up of bits of knowledge or,
as James puts it, bits of «sciousness», which include knowledge of other
objects only, not themselves.
By
making language use its central
object of study contemporary philosophy seems to have committed itself to an even more extreme form of that same anthropocentric orientation that Whitehead saw himself
as combating.
For Reid it is by a «natural kind of magic» that we take them to stand for these
objects; there are no grounds in experience for
making this association.9
As we have seen, Whitehead disagrees with Reid in that he holds that we have a direct intuition or «feeling» of external objects as causes of sensation
As we have seen, Whitehead disagrees with Reid in that he holds that we have a direct intuition or «feeling» of external
objects as causes of sensation
as causes of sensations.
He does not say so in so many words, but the objective lure seems to be constituted of all the eternal
objects making up the various past actual occasions physically prehended,
as these eternal
objects are mutually interrelated.
As it advanced, it
made «finer and finer distinctions between layers of tradition in the Gospels, beneath which the real
object of faith — the figure [Gestalt] of Jesus — became increasingly obscured and blurred.»
For Whitehead evidently supposes that it is the value which God apprehends an eternal
object as possessing, or its suitability for ingression in a particular context, which
makes it a lure for action.
On the face of it Santayana rejects all three of these departures from the tradition, since (1) he
makes no very explicit move from a continuant to an event ontology, (2) regards the inherent nature of an
object as a matter of the individual eternal essence which it actualizes and (3) regards the distinction between matter and form
as at least a virtually inevitable way of expressing the obscure manner in which one state of things takes over from another (see RB 278 - 284).
... [Americans] have become a nation that may defy every foe but that most dangerous of foes, herself, destined to a majestic future if she will shun the excess and perversion of the principles that
made her great, prate less about the enemies of the past and strive more against the enemies of the future, resist the mob and the demagogue
as she resisted Parliament and King, rally her powers from the race for gold and the delirium of prosperity to
make firm the foundations on which that prosperity rests, and turn some fair proportion of her vast mental forces to other
objects than material progress and the game of party politics.
What we call the perception of these latter
objects is in fact an inference we
make to them from images
as their representations.
These objections are likely to be reinforced in the minds of those who
make them by the qualifications which Buber sets for the philosophical anthropologist: that he must be an individual to whom man's existence
as man has become questionable, that he must have experienced the tension of solitude, and that he must discover the essence of man not
as a scientific observer, removed in so far
as possible from the
object that he observes, but
as a participant who only afterwards gains the distance from his subject matter which will enable him to formulate the insights he has attained.
It also says that electrons and protons are societies, but it gives no indication
as to whether they are spatially thick, structured societies (my view) or enduring
objects (Cobb's view) except where Whitehead speculates about the dimly discerned «yet more ultimate actual entities — this could be taken to imply that electrons and protons are complex,
made up of distinct types of subordinate entities, and this would support my claim that electrons and protons are structured societies.
This means,
as Whitehead puts it, that «a particular determination can be
made of the how of some definite relationship of a definite eternal
object A to a definite number n of other eternal
objects, without any determination of the other n
objects, x1, x2,... x11, except that they have, each of them, the requisite status to play their respective parts in that multiple relationship» (Science and the Modern World 237).
My criticism of Whitehead would be that while he
makes token acknowledgment of the Aristotelian principle, his concept of God
as a non-temporal entity ontologically grounding the realm of eternal
objects shows that his heart basically remains with Plato.
So the point of Whitehead's example in the above passage would be that in talking about the membership of the complex structured society which is a total man, in the ordinary sense of the term, one is referring not to a subordinate society, such
as the enduring
object which is the life, or soul, of the man, but to all the individual actual occasions in all the subordinate societies and subordinate nexus which
make up the man.
It should be very clear now that to speak of the enduring
object which constitutes the life of an electron is not by any stretch of the imagination to identify electrons
as enduring
objects,
as Cobb claims, which is the sole point that needs to be
made about this passage.
Projecting one's own beliefs to society at large, even going so far
as to
make up false resons that can not be backed up by fact, «women are seen
as objects»,
as to why others should do the same, is just plain odd.
since the Sun is the biggest
object in our solar system, it
makes sense that it would have the strongest gravitational pull, just
as it
makes sense that we weigh less / have less gravity on the moon since it is not
as large or
as dense
as the Earth.
Ibn Arabi
makes a distinction which is the dividing line between his metaphysical theory and his theology; it is a distinction between God
as the unknowable and incommunicable Reality, and God
as the
object of belief, worship, and love.
In understanding the work of art
as a language - event, an image - event, the hermeneutics of Hans - Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur offered a critique of the formalists» tendency to
make «meaning» a static
object.
It will be seen by now that «B
as Tonic» —
as a limited set of two eternal
objects — is itself a complex eternal
object made up of the related components «B» and «tonic.»
I take it
as granted on all sides that while the arrow is a man «
made object and thus irreducibly complex, Thomas is focusing not on its manufacture but on its motion
as an otherwise inert
object.
The term moderate evolution might therefore be applied to a theory which simply inquires into the biological reality of man in accordance with the formal
object of the biological sciences
as defined by their methods and which affirms a real genetic connection between that human biological reality and the animal kingdom, but which also in accordance with the fundamental methodological principles of those sciences, can not and does not attempt to assert that it has
made a statement adequate to the whole reality of man and to the origin of this whole reality.