All art is political, so I don't see this year's Whitney Biennial as any more or less engaged with the terrain of
politics than the institution's previous biennials.
Not exact matches
Several others point to Berry's lack of attention to the good of
politics, especially what co-editor Nathan Schlueter calls «formal mediating
institutions,» and Schlueter himself comes closer
than anyone to an outright rebuke of Berry for his disregard of «the original sin narrative, with all that it implies» in his pacifism.»
In the wake of the collapse of the ecclesiastical administration of the censura morum in the modern world, there is nowhere else to turn for the correction of morals
than the
institutions of law and
politics.
Christian acquiescence in this fate can be measured in any number of ways: by the extent to which the Church renounces her inherent «platonism,» thinking and speaking in the language of psychology, sociology, economics, and
politics rather
than philosophy (metaphysics) and theology; by the tendency to view the Church not first as sacrament transcending political order, but as a mere mediating
institution within that order; by the «political» or «clerical» temptation to equate true ecclesial reform with institutional or curial reform.
The Labour leader offers an innovative
politics of participation which is about doing things «with» people rather
than «to» them, sweeping away anachronistic
institutions and inherited privilege; if carried forward this might be the platform for a resurgence of British social democracy.
Yes - if your
institution is a corporate relationship based on patent licensing, and your research damages that corporate interest in any way - be it a drug study that shows their blockbuster is less effective
than aspirin, or an analysis of PCB concentrations in the Hudson River downstream from GE - then you will have hit the third rails in American science
politics.
But this reveals that science — as an
institution, rather
than a process — is much less involved in discovery
than in supplying climate
politics and its bureaucracies with legitimacy.
The scientific process may well be simple enough, but the priorities and presuppositions of science as an
institution — which «speaks» to the public, to tell them what to do and what to expect — owes much more to the historical context and to
politics and ideology
than its advocate can admit.
Not even the scientific method provides oversight of this form of
politics, because the power subsists in scientific
institutions, which certainly do not welcome climate sceptics, rather
than in the scientific process.