Sentences with phrase «of cultural critique»

Founded in June 2004 by Glenn Alderson and Brad Simm, BeatRoute Magazine continues to provide a healthy dose of cultural critique while exercising rock»n' roll ethics.

Apparatus 2.0 expands on its predecessor by initiating long - distance working relationships between the same artists, asking them to consider their experiences — in different cities, under respective historical and sociopolitical conditions — and see how these aspects shape their understanding of images as a form of cultural critique.

Its ideological presuppositions are difficult to specify: the author takes his theoretical framework from the radical historians Charles Beard and William Appleman Williams, but much of his cultural critique of modern American society carries echoes of Pat Buchanan.

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A justified process - rooted philosophical appreciation of social canons can be taught through a pedagogical strategy that begins with their critique, that expunges them from the natural given furnishings of the immediately real in order to rediscover them as the inherited cultural accretions by which we transform the immediately real into a world of enduring meanings and human significance.

His stout anti-communism, critique of loosening sexual mores, and cultural conservatism ran squarely against the academic trends of the time.

Second, Jewett adopts whole - cloth the latest fad in New Testament scholarship, which broadly terms itself as postcolonial, and reads virtually everything in the New Testament as a coded critique of the Roman Empire and especially of its claims of cultural superiority elaborated in the civic cult of the early empire.

The communitarian critique of liberalism, whatever one may think of it as philosophy, has succeeded in reminding liberals that liberalism does have social and cultural presuppositions, and that these must be attended to if liberalism is to survive.

It is easiest to critique Bingham by chiding him for ignoring the great stories that have been told over the millennia by Socrates and Aristotle, Moses and Jesus, Muhammad and Siddhartha, the Gitas and the Tao — all of which have nontrivial implications for the process of cultural evolution.

He then goes on to praise E. D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy as a more useful critique of current educational practices because it works in «the framework of a Deweyan understanding of democracy» in which students are to be made better citizens by preparing them to «recognize more allusions, and thereby be able to take part in more conversations, read more, have more sense of what those in power are up to, cast better - informed votes.

Like the Gulag, Sartre's Critique is an encyclopedic work that examines the foundations of social order and attempts to think beyond cultural relativism to a new ethic based upon a universal conception of humanity.

Even «conservative» Christians who deplore the cultural costs of late modernity treat any critique of its obvious material basis as practically blasphemous.

Neveldine «Taylor don't yet work in 3 - D, but they've mastered the previous standards of digital - era filmmaking as part of their constant critique of media overload and cultural excess and moral anarchy.

Blending laugh - out - loud moments with serious cultural critique, Evans discovers that living the actual teachings of the Bible means surrendering idealized role - playing in favor of becoming an eshet chayil — a woman of strength and wisdom.

From the time Morrison took the helm, the growing edges of social critique and cultural criticism began to take definite shape.

The result of this is that the «thinker» occupies an altogether unassailable position, from which he is able to discern and pronounce upon the limits of every other discourse (scientific, metaphysical, religious, cultural, or what have you), without himself being subject to critique from any other quarter.

By juxtaposing the concerns of Dawson and Eliot to the cultural criticism of the Frankfurt School and other social critics like Neil Postman, one can begin to see an emerging critique of the forms of modernity during the first half of the twentieth century.

«25 This archaeology is aided by two approaches: a sociology - of - knowledge analysis of the cultural role of biblical criticism and a psychoanalytically informed critique of the way we read the text.

Religious leaders, I think, face alternatives not easily reconciled: to try to form communities in which biblical imagery and ideas provide an alternative vision to our cultural ones, or to engage in a process of mutual critique, edification, correction and revision of frameworks that are informed both by our religious traditions and by the sciences and culture.

Mujerista theology brings together elements of feminist theology, Latin American liberation theology and cultural theology, three perspectives which critique and challenge each other, giving birth to new elements, a new reality, a new whole.

Whether or not the deliver will depend largely on your musical pallet and willingness to dive into the cultural critique of Butler and Co..

In two recent works, The Uncertain Phoenix and Eros and Irony, David L. Hall presents a systematic and radical critique of the Western cultural and philosophical tradition, and (in The Uncertain Phoenix) a provocative vision of a future which might result front a movement away from certain aspects of that tradition.

(Later, Huck can only make sense of Jim's kindness to him and Tom Sawyer by concluding he must be «white on the inside,» a comment that reveals Twain's gift for creating characters that both critique yet fully inhabit their cultural contexts.)

Turning first to the Asian values claims, I offer a four-fold critique of the these culture - based claims: first, I will briefly address the Asian values claim on a substantive level; second, I will address a related cultural prerequisites argument which seeks to disqualify some societies from realization of democracy and human rights; third, I will consider claims made on behalf of community or communitarian values in the East Asian context; and fourth, a recent shift to concern with institutions and their role in social transformation will be considered as a prelude to the constitutionalist argument addressed in the second half of this essay.

Beyond that, there's a penetrating and insightful critique of UH's deficient safety regime, plus detailed suggestions for attacking its cultural and systemic problems.

The extremely complex equilibrium at display in this film is pleasantly surprising as it balances the critique of certain aspects of Holy Week with presenting a respectful view at its religious and cultural essence.

But little else about Atán and Pivato's debut feature compares to Federico Fellini's masterpiece, which is distinguished by its regional detail and cultural critique and culminates in an honest, earned conclusion of hope mixed with despair.

A grisly critique of representations of violence, the original version shot a hole right through the fourth wall, but Haneke's echo — which re-uses the same locations and stresses its own pointlessness at every turn — transforms his cultural commentary into an endless hall of mirrors, completing the project by repeating it.

Every once in a while a reasonable, down - to - earth person will crystallize in the form of James Franco, which makes all of his absurd, vapid artistic pursuits and «cultural critiques» about Kristen Stewart in Snow White and the Huntsman that much more frustrating.

December 28, 2017 • Many of the year's best challenged America's record on race, critiqued widespread cultural erasure, or broke conventions of genre, gender and identity within the space of rap itself.

Haynes brilliantly uses the restrictions of the genre to critique cultural expectations: Cathy's purposefully stilted dialogue remains bound by the front - office conventions of post-WWII Hollywood (interestingly, Frank's isn't), and unlike the men in the film, her options are as limited as the choice between a happy or a sad ending.

Space Station 76 is a postmodern snafu of the most intolerable sort, the kind of hokum that increases one's appreciation for successful comedic cultural critique, if only for the severity of this film's failures.

The Remains of the Day seems to build on that critique, but examining it through a lens where the sociopolitical need for such a sect of people, even the cultural need, is waning.

Its underlying thematic framework, only vaguely hinted at in the previous two Thor efforts but fully articulated now, is one of thorough historical and cultural critique.

Avery offered a critique of herself and her peers for possibly failing to have the proper «cultural sensitivity» in their integration efforts.

She has written a number of education books that conservatives liked, one of them a scathing critique of leftist historians who attacked the public schools as «an instrument of cultural repression.»

How did PTP teachers help students investigate and critique topics related to ethnicity, gender, and exceptionality from a wide range of racial, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic perspectives?

As students learn to use technology tools to build representations of a social world's characteristics, they generate reflective critical thought through their analysis and critique of the identities, relationships, and values constructed by the cultural practices and discourses in that social world.

Our reviewer writes, «Along with his pointed cultural critique are stark, electrifying pieces like «Ode to a Drone» and inventive, playful poems like his celebratory ode to grammar in the sly «His Love of Semicolons» («The comma is comely, the period, peerless, / but stack them one atop / the other, and I am in love»).

But as poetry readers know, its lyrical gifts can be an antidote to many of life's woes, offering calm waters of meditation, razor - sharp cultural critique or a playful celebration of language.

Part memoir, part cultural critique, and part genetic travelogue, Beyond the Pale is a brave, intimate investigation into the secret histories that each of us carries in our genes and an inspiring and beautiful memoir about parenting a child with a disability — and building a better future for that child.

Biographies (books about a person's life written by someone else), autobiographies or memoirs (books about a person's life written by that person), research - based books (medical textbooks, historical books), and cultural critiques are just a few nonfiction books that benefit from the presence of an appendix.

You're very likely to find bibliographies in the back pages of textbooks, historical nonfiction books, biographies, cultural critiques, essay collections, and research - based nonfiction books.

Referencing the history of painting, particularly the fraught legacies of hyper masculine artists like Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, her canvases combined figuration with feminist cultural critique.

These new works take historical paintings and Internet culture as their point of departure and utilize paint and digitally manipulated printed images to create hybridized portraits suffused with cultural and societal critiques.

Black cultural products have historically served as a major source for European and Euro - American exotic interests — interests that issue from a healthy critique of the mechanistic, puritanical, utilitarian, and productivity aspects of modern life.

Marco Antonini of New York - based NURTUREart wrote that ``... Beyond fine art, Gilewicz» projects can be considered a form of context - driven creative labor split between cultural criticism, institutional critique and genuine social involvement...»

Through Spiderman's canned laugh track emerges a critique of the cultural fear, ignorance, and misrepresentation surrounding black masculinity and the early years of the AIDS crisis.

The exhibition's title, I KILLED KENNY, invokes the vernacular of «South Park,» framing Pensato's visual vocabulary within the cartoon's sardonic wit and cultural critique.

13:00 — 14:30 Discussion: Writing into history How are independent practitioners performing critique within and on the margins of cultural centres through forms of «writing»?

Expanding to video and installation, to emphasize voice, movement and experiential pathos, Breiding locates her work within the intersection of analog and digital technologies, the construction of gender and cultural identity, and a critique of heternormative ideologies within the personal and social space.