Sentences with phrase «of cultural signs»

It crystalized this worldview of art as purely a set of cultural signs meant to be decoded.

In this age of unprecedented growth and technological change, we encounter a nonstop barrage of cultural signs.

«What passes for imagination today is often just a recontextualization of cultural signs,» David Salle observed in a recent issue of Artforum.

Though intertwined in practice, the pictorial and the presentational represent two different worldviews, one identified with art as form, as something made, or something its maker arrives at, while the other regards art primarily as a set of cultural signs, or a strategy that produces an artifact, something meant to be read.

The hybridization of cultural signs is the source of the strength of Simmons's recent artistic vision, made literal through his process of blurring and the fundamental instability of his medium.

For one thing, everything does, in an age of cultural signs.

Not exact matches

But for every sign of financial success, there seems to be at least one more of cultural disquiet.

If becoming a verb is the ultimate sign of achieving the status of genuine cultural phenomenon, then Marie Kondo's book, The Life - Changing Magic of Tidying Up has managed this milestone.

For example, their respect for authority may inhibit them from showing much, if any, personality in an interview and this can mislead hiring managers who take this as a sign of lack of interest or wrong cultural fit.

To that end, African - American women are leaving an indelible imprint on America's economy, social consciousness and cultural landscape, and they're showing no signs of slowing as they become more and more aware of that influence.

But in a sign of the film's power and place in the cultural debate, Apple Inc said on Sunday it plans to carry the movie for rental and purchase on iTunes, the biggest and most - popular online content store.

More than 500 people sign on including many of Canada's leading cultural figures who lend personal endorsements and signed books to the effort.

We Protestants who signed ECT took this action to advance Christian fellowship, cooperation, and mutual trust among true Christians in the North American cultural crisis and in the worldwide task of evangelism.

In today's cultural and political climate, however, to suggest that the current stampede to accept claims that a decade ago would have been regarded as signs of serious psychological disturbance — and that are still regarded as such by eminent psychiatrists — is to risk being shamed and cast to the margins of society as a bigot.

The Italian Bishops» Conference said that the crucifix is «not only a religious symbol but also a cultural sign» and noted that its display in public buildings is «part of the historic heritage of the Italian people.»

Cultural imagination presents a world relatively preformed with objects, signs, and relevant respects of interpretation.

For others, many of whom have already left the church, it is but one more sign of the inevitable slide of Anglicanism into a failed cultural accommodation with modernity's egalitarian politics.

Since linguistic signs are matters of historical and cultural convention, when language presents itself as natural rather than drawing attention to its own arbitrariness, it may get granted unquestioned status as the expression of what is real and abiding.

But God calls his / her people to be signs of Shalom, the vanguard of God's kingdom, a community of cultural change.

If understanding is a closure of meaning that includes an encounter with the alterity of the text, how can the production of meaning comprehend the complexity of the text as both a «cultural speech performance» (29) and a code of linguistic signs?

Of course, to be repetitive, that fusion is not the assimilation of one horizon into another, but the extension of the preunderstanding's projection to construe the text as both a cultural speech performance and a dynamic code of linguistic signOf course, to be repetitive, that fusion is not the assimilation of one horizon into another, but the extension of the preunderstanding's projection to construe the text as both a cultural speech performance and a dynamic code of linguistic signof one horizon into another, but the extension of the preunderstanding's projection to construe the text as both a cultural speech performance and a dynamic code of linguistic signof the preunderstanding's projection to construe the text as both a cultural speech performance and a dynamic code of linguistic signof linguistic signs.

as a psychologist... one would have to know the cultural aspect of the client as well... that's why I brought in the BIble... she was delusional... also she would have showed other signs of delusions (if I remembered correctly she showed several - this case was quite a while back)

Receiving the sign of the cross with ash on Ash Wednesday marks Christians as belonging to a people with a cultural identity that honors the local without sacrificing the global — indeed, catholic — nature of that identity.

Role confusion is a classic sign of cultural transition.

The second sign of hope is how many young people have rallied around Adam, even as adults still feel somewhat awkward: There remains a cultural fear and lack of understanding toward special - needs children and the disabled.

The field of imagination at any rate is broad, ranging from automatic, instinctual, or reflex actions (in which the problem of meaning is virtually, but not entirely, non-existent), to more or less habitual modes of response to «natural signs,» and rising ultimately to sophisticated conceptual activity and various poetic or secondary forms of meaning — making in cultural and social significations.19 In the higher reaches of semiotic activity an increase in imaginative freedom is accompanied by a greater risk of error.

What is most unlikely to change is the underlying structure of these cultural interactions: the ideologies and agendas of the churches all originate outside them; the churches play a basically passive role in the cultural drama, as receptors and disseminators rather than as initiators; they «read the signs of the times.»

The development of new styles of painting, or poetry, or music is, then, a matter of enriching existing cultural forms, with the result that the initiator of a new style «finds himself endowed with new organs» (SIGNS 52).

Having no culture of her own, she communicates with others and expresses herself through the human and social, cultural and religious signs of the people among whom she is incarnated.5

[1 - 9] As a 2013 research paper [7] and a number of other recent studies [12 - 15] show, education alone (or at least that which focuses on educating athletes about the signs and symptoms of concussion and not changing attitudes about reporting behavior) does not appear capable of solving the problem, because the reasons for under - reporting are largely cultural, [2,3,9,10, 12 - 15] leading the paper's author to conclude that «other approaches might be needed to identify injured athletes.»

When everyone else is hiring tutors at the first sign of an A-minus and pushing their kids to pursue two or three extracurricular activities chosen with an eye toward bolstering their college application, to do otherwise is to go against the cultural norm.

I feel driven to help our society shift its cultural attitude from viewing sleep as a luxury and the need for it as a sign of weakness.

Potty Savvy is based on biology and cultural anthropology of elimination and the beginnings of respectful communication with our children and can be started as early as 10 months (the age of first verbal / sign communication and mobility) and is also appropriate for all preschool potty learning and challenges as well!

A separate letter is been sent to the Evening Standard, signed by Simon Schama, Helena Kennedy, Howard Jacobson, Sandi Toksvig, Ruby Wax, William Boyd, Dawn French, Eric Idle, David Hare, Martin Amis and Joanna Trollope, in a campaign which is quickly turning into a who's who of British cultural life.

Cultural mixing, just like trade, is not a sign of weakness, but of strength.

Big Apple residents are joining cultural institutions in droves, a perk of signing up for IDNYC, the city - issued identity cards.

To avoid a situation in which only undocumented immigrants apply for the card, which could create a stigma and make some unwary about the I.D.s, Mr. de Blasio's administration has rolled out many perks for all New Yorkers who sign up — including yearlong memberships to cultural institutions like the Bronx Zoo and access to all three of the city's public library systems.

There is little sign that large numbers of formerly apolitical young people are being recruited into politics online, even if we define «politics» broadly to include consumer and cultural activism.

To be more cynical, it could be a sign of cultural decline.

Meanwhile, 42 eminent archaeologists and paleoanthropologists from the United States and Europe signed a letter demanding that Italy's minister of the cultural heritage move the archaeological collection to a new location and create an international scientific panel to assess the effects of the contamination.

Indeed, beyond their enduring cultural nuance and personal charm, these systems might also offer an unexpected look ahead — a sign of things to come as we open our streets, buildings and cities to self - driving cars and home - delivery drones.

Although Australia is halfway around the world from our species's accepted birthplace in Africa, the continent is nevertheless home to some of the earliest undisputed signs of modern humans outside Africa, and Aborigines have unique languages and cultural adaptations.

If, as many researchers believe, early modern humans replaced the Neanderthals in Western Asia and Europe between 45 000 and 30 000 years ago, rather than evolved from them, the Levantine early moderns should show signs of «human» social and cultural behaviour distinct from that of the Neanderthals.

And while we're bragging about the vegan or paleo or whatever lifestyle we've chosen, have we considered the cultural histories that allowed peoples past (you know, those who would find our debates about things like Obamacare strange signs of an unhealthy time?)

Could the rise of Ultra Violet in 2018 by a sign of a cultural renaissance to come?

Maryse Vaillant, a celebrated French psychologist and author of the book Men, Love, Fidelity, famously said that wives should welcome their husbands» extra-marital affairs as a sign of a healthy marriage because a «pact of fidelity is not natural but cultural.»

San Jose singles of any ethnicity can sign up to the niche site to mingle with attractive singles who share similar values, experiences, and cultural backgrounds.

The search system on MilitaryCupid.com is thorough and includes several criteria, like date member last signed on, member appearance, cultural background, branch of the military, etc..

Can filter searches by lots of criteria, including date member last signed on, member appearance, cultural background, etc..

a sign of religious or cultural affiliation as it did the instrument of subversion.