With the lack of visual anchor Elrod's amorphous paintings
of lost objects and indistinct blotches of color seem to resist coherence and bedazzle the audience.
Alongside a selection of color plates, Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator at the MCA, reviews the works in the exhibition within the context of the artist's career; Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, examines the artist's position within photographic and cinematic history; and novelist Kate Zambreno considers the fragments
of lost objects and what it means to collect.
We boys of a later day found lost objects sometimes by catching a daddy long - legs, saying over him a formula which unfortunately can no longer be recalled, when the great insect would solemnly point one of his long legs in the supposed direction
of the lost object.
In contrast, actual cash value coverage in a renters policy will give you the actual market value
of the lost object.
Not exact matches
Among some
of Toyota's developments for the disabled or elderly include a strap - on robotic leg for people who
lost the use
of their limbs and a so - called human support robot designed to fetch and retrieve
objects for people unable to do so.
A Danish man who
lost his arm in an accident was able to feel
objects by way
of surgically implanted sensors connected to a bionic hand.
Checking air quality, keeping track
of loud sounds, logging fresh shipments
of cargo, and locating
lost objects in the floating laboratory is also boring and time - consuming work for astronauts, so Astrobee will be loaded with sensors and an RFID scanner to track inventory.
On Wednesday, almost 4,000 ancient artifacts - including
objects from the «
lost city»
of Irisagrig - that had been smuggled into the U.S. were...
Asserting that all innocence has been
lost, Zizek claims that an
object is no longer considered art «simply [on] its direct material properties, but [by] the place it occupies, the (sacred) Place
of the Void
of the Thing.»
We must remember if we have control or
lose control, succeed or fail, become wildly popular or an
object of scorn — none
of that speaks to who we truly are.
Or, the conscious perception
of the
object's form can be «
lost» with good apprehension
of meaning, i.e., meaning is «encoded» before
objects are consciously perceived.
The individual now stood clear
of the mass, an
object of divine care, reward, and punishment, and never afterward could Judaism
lose sight
of him as one indispensable focus in the religious ellipse.
For him,
objects have
lost their surface multiplicity: in each
of them, according to the measure
of its own particular qualities and possibilities, God may truly be laid hold on.
In so doing we
lose sight
of what the things themselves really are qua things — and «things» here includes people,
objects, ideas, moral codes, literally everything.
Since we routinely use the framework
of abstract three dimensional geometry to describe, measure, predict and position real world
objects the distinction between the conceptual and the actual gets
lost.
If an
object is thought
of as being at a certain point, you have
lost your mental grasp
of its movement.
Yet it also remained anchored within the raison d'être
of Christian theology by not
losing sight
of its central topic
of study and
object of worship: Jesus Christ and his global mission in and through the Church.
This divestment (depouillement) is not only ethical but speculative; it is when the thought
of the unconditioned has
lost all support in the transcendent
objects of metaphysics, when it has renounced all the objectifications that understanding imposes.
A charm for finding
lost objects recalls practices
of the writer's own boyhood days.
Now there are
objects of great mass spinning counterclockwise, any mass
lost from that will spin clockwise.
If an
object of great mass spins clockwise with a great force, any mass
lost will spin counterclockwise.
It may,
of course, be
objected that this analysis has drawn our noses so close to texts that the general tenor
of the whole is
lost.
Ritual performances that call attention to the
objects themselves are in danger
of losing their evocative power.
So what's the
object that we're in danger
of losing sight
of?
Jesus, pondering how best to describe the depth
of God's love, surveyed the crowd before him, fixed on the ordinary
objects held in their hands, and told a pair
of stories about how we look for things that are
lost.
It is in these
objects, in the widest sense
of the word, that the Ego must
lose and find itself.
We can never look directly at them, for they are bodiless and featureless and footless, but we grasp all other things by their means, and in handling the real world we should be stricken with helplessness in just so far forth as we might
lose these mental
objects, these adjectives and adverbs and predicates and heads
of classification and conception.
Romano Guardini commented in this regard on the false certainty
of modern exegesis, which he said «has produced very significant individual results, but has
lost sight
of its own particular
object and generally has ceased being theology.»
The predicate
of a proposition
loses much
of its generality which it otherwise has in the strict sense
of being an eternal
object.
If you are in a rubber life raft and survival
of the group is paramount, then it would be completely moral to throw the guy overboard who keeps attempting to pop the raft and drown us all, and not a single other person in the raft would
object for they would understand that that guy must have
lost use
of his senses and had abandoned his humanity.
In 2012 the lines between the sacred and the profane will get even more blurry: Scientists will religiously maintain their search for the elusive God particle (they won't find it); evangelical sports superhero and Denver Bronco quarterback Tim Tebow will continue to be both an inspiration to the faithful and an
object of scorn to skeptics (he will be watching, not playing in, the Super Bowl); at least one well - known religious leader or leading religious politician will be brought down by a sex scandal (let's hope all our leaders have learned a lesson from former Rep. Anthony Weiner and stay away from sexting); and the «nones» - those who don't identify with one religion - will grow even more numerous and find religious meanings in unexpected places (what TV show will become this season's «
Lost»?)
First, for the past two centuries philosophy has not had nature as its
object at all, with the result that the entire problematic, the range
of issues involved as well as that
of method, has been
lost.
He points out that whenever a city or enterprise grows beyond a critical size, the people involved become, at best, «efficient
objects» at the expense
of losing their possibilities as «creative subjects».
In this essay, I have referred only to the book
of Genesis and thus have chosen not to mention the prohibitions against homosexuality included in Leviticus, for it seems to me that what is at stake now is not homosexuality, which is a fact, a reality, whatever my view
of it as a rabbi might be, but the risk
of irreversibly scrambling genealogies, questions
of legal and social status (the child - as - subject becoming child - as -
object), and identities — a confusion that would be harmful to society as a whole and that would
lose sight
of the general interest in seeking the advantage
of a tiny minority.
Is he with the people who have
lost their way and justify such
objects existing and spend thousands
of dollars to protect their god given rights to do so?
First, George mentions that Catholics do realize that Mary isn't the
object of the sort
of worship given to God but that «this distinction often seems to get
lost at the local level.»
What is at stake is the risk
of irreversibly scrambling genealogies, as well as legal and social statuses (the child - as - subject becoming child - as -
object) and identities — a confusion that would be harmful to society as a whole and that would
lose sight
of the general interest in seeking the advantage
of a tiny minority.
When rolled in the usual way (for a draw shot) the bowl will curve toward its heavier side, more so as it
loses momentum, enabling the player, with proper pace and angle, to make it skirt around bowls lying in the way
of the «jack» — the smaller
object ball — or tap an opponent's bowl out
of a cluster around the jack.
The researchers found that there were more collisions with fixed
objects in the Northeast, loss
of consciousness was more likely to occur in terrain park users, and those in Colorado were less likely to
lose consciousness after a fall.
In today's world
of mass production it is easy to
lose sight
of how the
objects in our lives are fashioned.
Earning or
losing privileges can also be the earning or loss
of an important
object or an opportunity or privilege.
But as she begins to be ready for solids, you will observe a change in the way she moves her mouth — there may be less drool, as she is more capable
of swallowing, and she will start to
lose the «tongue - thrust reflex,» which expels
objects — including food if attempted too early — from the mouth.
Hopefully, you only
lose the poop - stained jammies, but it might be a precious security
object, important part
of your breast pump, or your cell phone charger.
It's really geared to younger kids in terms
of storyline and character, so while he thought the
objects - built - out -
of - letters concept was cool, and liked the animation, it
lost him at a certain point.
Article 321 bis: Whoever finds a
lost object or animal and does not return it to its owner whenever realizable, or deliver it to police quarter's or the administrative authority within three days shall be punished with penal servitude for a period not exceeding two years, if he / she withholds it with the intention
of its possession.
«This bill does not address the great moral issue
of our time — the fact that in three weeks 800,000 young Dreamers will
lose their legal status and be subject to deportation,» said Sanders, who also
objected to the bill's increase in defense spending.
We've been intent on
losing the fixed frame
of the photograph, enabling the viewer to focus on particular
objects or figures that they single out within the depths
of the image.»
Indeed, the famous Uncertainty Principle, which arises directly from the mathematics
of quantum theory, says that
objects» positions and moment a are smeary and ill defined, and gaining knowledge about one implies
losing knowledge about the other.
Two weeks out
of every four are effectively
lost because
of moonlight: it severely limits observations
of the deep sky and the measurement
of light from faint
objects.