Throughout her work, transdisciplinary visual artist Lindsey Dorr - Niro aims to make art a practice
of critical consciousness, calling viewers deeper into themselves and relation with the world.
Artist Bio: Throughout her work, transdisciplinary visual artist Lindsey Dorr Niro aims to make art a practice
of critical consciousness, calling viewers deeper into themselves and relation with the world.
While he exhibited extensively both locally and abroad during the 1980s and»90s, Nhlengethwa's travelling solo show South Africa, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow in 1993 established him at the vanguard
of critical consciousness in South Africa and he went on to win the Standard Bank Young Artist Award in 1994.
Through her work, Chicago - based artist Lindsey Dorr - Niro aims to make art a practice
of critical consciousness, calling viewers deeper into themselves and relation with the world.
Dr. Seider's current work investigates the development
of critical consciousness in adolescents attending a diverse set of urban high schools.
Such an education exposes students not only to what Matthew Arnold famously termed «the best that has been thought and said,» but also develops in them a valuable form
of critical consciousness that is difficult to acquire elsewhere in contemporary American society.
What is the goal
of this critical consciousness?
Rather, we may present a much more positive suggestion as to how they are related to one another: revelation actually promotes the deepest objective
of critical consciousness, namely, the relating of ourselves and our minds to reality.
Are we escaping from reality if we decide to hope in a promise that seems improbable from the point of view
of critical consciousness?
However, there is a logic and a view of reality (what philosophers call a «metaphysics») operative in the realm of revelatory promise and hope that is deeply resistant to the demands
of critical consciousness as it is usually understood.
In the interest of truth, we must open the illusory aspects of our God - consciousness to the purification
of critical consciousness.
Not exact matches
«Only the recognition on a worldwide scale
of the oneness
of creation can provide the
critical global
consciousness necessary to chart a new course for a sustainable future.»
Consequently one feels less inclined to reject as unscientific the idea that the
critical point
of planetary reflective
consciousness which is the result
of the forming
of humanity into an organized society, far from being a mere spark in the darkness, corresponds on the contrary to our passage (by a movement
of reversal or dematerialization) to another face
of the universe: not an ending
of the ultra-human but its arrival at something trans - human at the very heart
of reality.
To say this is simply to say (what is indeed probable enough) that the stuff
of the universe does not achieve its full evolutionary cycle when it achieves
consciousness, and that we are therefore moving on towards some new
critical point.
We have to expect the universe to converge in the eschatological future; there has to be a
critical threshold
of radical transformation in which all the complexifying personal centers
of consciousness are unified in an ultimate center
of unity, if we are to be faithful to the mechanics and laws
of the evolutionary process.
On the other hand, there is no God
of a religious tradition cut off from
critical reflection so that «it is wrong for religion's advocate to confound the object
of this affirmation with the modalities
of the affirmation; it is wrong for him to believe that the transcendence
of the divine mystery is extended to the materiality
of the expressions that it takes on in human
consciousness; with greater reason it is wrong for him to consider that his problematic is canonized by this transcendence.
Where the dialogue between this newer modern
consciousness and the biblical witness is sensitively pursued, it can yield the kind
of critical insight into our understanding
of man which we desperately need in this age
of yearning and conflict.
It is especially important for those
of us in academia to lift to
consciousness for
critical discussion those assumptions that govern the practice
of scholarship and the structure
of the university.
science is not everything, the problem is when the
critical and objective philosophy
of science is accepted as absolute in reality.God is beyond logic at this point
of our
consciousness, The process
of gods will manfistation is evolution which accepts all variables in the process, the input could be not what scienctists wants.Thats why faith or religion is part
of reality.
This question, the most
critical issue that has shaped my theological
consciousness, first achieved its importance in the particularity
of the black religious experience during my early childhood in Bearden, Arkansas.
Education based upon religious convictions is accused
of everything from dividing society into warring camps to indoctrinating children in a way that prevents them from achieving autonomy and
critical consciousness.
Women are
critical in molding the ethical
consciousness of families — to deal with the pressure
of modern life and the demands it makes, on particularly the young, to break out
of the norm and to experiment with life.
The second part
of the book is theological rather than
critical or historical, and it advances the claim that it is precisely the most radical expressions
of the profane in the modern
consciousness (Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Freud, Proust, Kafka and Sartre) that can be dialectically identified with the purest expressions
of the sacred.
The first section
of this chapter is in three brief scenes in which persons, simply and wholly as persons, respond under
consciousness of urgency to the
critical situation and / or to each other.
If we concede this the whole
of human history appears as a progress between two
critical points: from the lowest point
of elementary
consciousness to the ultimate, noospherical point
of Reflection.
The interests which motivated our reading, and the applications we hoped to secure, move from the fringe
of consciousness to which they were exiled by objectivism, and occupy a place
of honor in the full light
of critical awareness.
But here we shall be content only to show how even the possibility
of mobilizing such
critical consciousness requires beliefs or assumptions that correlate well with faith's claim that reality in its depths has the character
of absolute trustworthiness.
It seems therefore that
critical consciousness itself can not find a point outside
of trust, or devoid
of trust, whereby it could settle the issue
of the justifiability
of the trust that motivates science and reason.
Dialogue with Asian views
of nature such as Kukai's can foster the process
of Western self -
critical «
consciousness - raising» by providing alternative places to stand and imagine new possibilities.
Furthermore, revelation is usually experienced in the context
of circumstances that seem to our normal and
critical consciousness to be impossible, devoid
of all promise.
It is clear then that science and its offspring,
critical consciousness, are not as innocent
of trusting or believing as skeptics often think.
The highly
critical consciousness of modernity began to question the existence
of God and therefore also the possibility
of revelation.
The ability to reason, in the philosophical sense
of thinking critically about one's beliefs, develops only if a man keeps
critical company so that a critic is incorporated in his own
consciousness.
Just as the prophetic reformulation
of Israel's earlier traditions generates a form
of historical awareness, so our critique
of the pretensions
of consciousness in the
critical study
of texts gives us historical sense.
It is the
critical moment, originally bound to the
consciousness of belonging - to, that confers its properly historical character on this
consciousness.
It is the
critical moment, originally bound to the
consciousness of belonging to that confers its properly historical character on this
consciousness.
For that reason the notion
of revelation, a notion that we can not separate from what is considered quite improbable in terms
of our ordinary and
critical standards
of plausibility, seems to contradict
critical consciousness.
It is little wonder that
critical consciousness has enshrined scientific method, with its ideals
of detachment and disinterestedness, as its central model for reality - testing.
«47 And third, it is through this work
of reinterpreting its own traditions that Israel as a community develops a historical
consciousness, thereby becoming a historical reality, if it is true, as
critical scholarship suggests, that Israel did not exist as a unified entity until the amphictyonic period after the settlement
of Canaan, then we can say that «by elaborating this history as a living tradition, Israel projected itself into the past as a single people, to whom occurred, as to an indivisible totality, the deliverance from Egypt, the revelation on Sinai, the wandering in the desert, the gift
of the Promised Land.
«
Critical consciousness» seems to entail a conviction that our ideas are in touch with the real world only if they pass the test
of being «verifiable» or «falsifiable» according to methods
of observation that are publicly accessible.
For Meland, this was an example
of the appreciative
consciousness at work in
critical inquiry.
Establishing this point, however, requires that we get to the heart
of what motivates reason, science and
critical consciousness.
What is at issue in this chapter is whether the claims
of revelation are in conflict with the desire to know the truth which allegedly animates
critical consciousness.
And much
of the confusion occurs as a result
of our not knowing quite how to deal with
critical consciousness.
Indeed, within the field accessible to our experience, does not the birth
of Thought stand out as a
critical point through which all the striving
of previous ages passes and is consummated — the
critical point traversed by
consciousness, when, by force
of concentration, it ends by reflecting upon itself?
(27) Having established some degree
of critical distance from the assumed language and values
of the culture, how do we develop a poetic and corporate language that can break the rim
of normative
consciousness and revitalize the religious imagination as a source
of energy for social change?
This allows for the possibility
of unlimited capacities including: creativity,
critical thinking, multi-level development
of intelligence, social
consciousness, healthy interpersonal relationships and a well - rounded, emotionally - grounded human being.
The implication was that the
critical revolutionary
consciousness of some musicians
of the 60s and 70s — such as the «redemption songs»
of reggae artist, Bob Marley — is lacking in contemporary African and Caribbean musical political
consciousness.
Francis Crick, co-discoverer
of the double helical structure
of DNA, and I had hypothesized that the claustrum, a mysterious thin structure located below much
of cortex, is
critical for binding information across sensory modalities and making it accessible to
consciousness.
And, in fact, what causes the brain to move between states
of consciousness and unconsciousness — to and from the
critical point — remains unknown.