Sentences with phrase «power of representation»

Does the power of representation lie in the seen or in the remnants and memory of the seen?

Deeply personal and political, Taj's work investigates the power of representation, challenging Islamophobia and exploring her multifaceted identity as a queer Muslim.

This conversation between the two artists and their subjects conveys the power of representation in the canon of American portraiture, and indeed speaks volumes of the history that Barkley L. Hendricks made, painting black Americans with such a radical, equalizing coolness.

This was written by Justin Clarke and it's titled «Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos: Assassin's Creed and the Power of Representation».

«The results speak to the power of representation,» said Hollis.

But in Black Panther's case, there's something deeper happening in how it's inspired these sorts of reflections on the power of representation.

If you don't understand the power of representation, imagine growing up never seeing a superhero who looks like you.

Wakanda Forever: Black Panther and the power of representation, by Leslie Byron Pitt (for Media Diversified)

«The results speak to the power of representation,» said Dave Hollis, Disney's head of distribution.

Although Kant insists that our knowledge is always of representations, and not of objects capable of existing outside our powers of representation, Rundell points out that the representations must themselves emerge from a synthesis of reason and imagination (CJ 91).

Refuting Noël Carroll's statement that the semiotic theory of illusion overestimates the power of representations, Wheatley follows the arguments of Baudry, Richard Allen's projective illusionism and Gregory Currie's impersonal imagining to argue that, while watching a film, the spectator is unaware of their actual relationship between the cinematic apparatus and their position as a viewer unless the film forces them to be aware of it.

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The power of brand identity can not be understated, as every call and email are a representation of your brand and the value proposition of your business.

It is the latest successful legislative push targeting union power following a Republican sweep of statehouses in 2010, and if Gov. Mitch Daniels signs the bill as expected it will make Indiana the first Rust Belt state to ban contracts that require workers to pay mandatory union fees for representation.

Whatever the means, the end goal ought to be equal gender representation in positions of power, and not just for optics: women make more than 80 % of consumer purchases and are responsible for more than 50 % of business procurement decisions.

We spoke about how she builds trading strategies — how she transitions from an abstract representation of the market to something concrete with genuine predictive powers.

If the PCs had done this sort of sensible representation of us they would still be in power forever and ever (even more so since they had the Tapcal Fund to pay for their out of pocket expenses).

The new government should not just amend the timelines for the next commission, it should amend the Act to empower the commission to draw fair electoral boundaries that will ensure more effective representation and equality of the voting power in Alberta.

We harness the power of data analytics and raw computing power to crunch millions of computations each week to generate trend rankings of 154 ETFs that we think are a holistic representation of most stock market investment options.

«And His Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power.

Aren't we playing the game of the dominant power if we accept that political, economic and social representation should be difficult to implement at the world level?

Such ambivalence stems from our ontological condition — that is, we both want to know and be known, and do not want to know and be known — and, therefore, our power to represent ourselves and to hear the representation of others is adversely affected.

Scandalously to oversimplify his argument, it is, says Heidegger, the history of this nihilistic impulse to reduce being to an object of the intellect, subject to the will, that has brought us at last to the age of technology, for which reality is just so many quanta of power, the world a representation of consciousness, and the earth a mere reserve awaiting exploitation; technological mastery has become our highest ideal, and our only real model of truth.

School boards, superintendents, principals, and teachers ought also to be related to one another in a scheme of authority and subordination with carefully articulated limitation and separation of powers, checks and balances, means of representation, individual and minority rights, and maximum delegation of responsibility.

True, of course, other religions in the area also had a concept of a power or «deity» beyond all visible representation (certainly in Egypt, but probably also in Mesopotamia).

While Marvel's earlier films dazzled with stories of great power from great men, women acted merely as props, but Marvel has taken a giant leap forward in female representation.

Thus it is a wholly false supposition that Jesus» belief concerning God marks an especially high level in humanity's developing consciousness of God, that to him — as some one has expressed it — God became the «representation of the ought - to - be as the power of love.»

According to that representation of Christ's work, far from paying a ransom to the powers of evil, Christ utterly vanquished them; Christ set us free not by compensating or appeasing Satan but by destroying his power.

Jesus — so it is thought — completed the decisive modification in the concept of God from the personified power of nature, the power over what is, to the «representation of the ought - to - be as the power of love.»

As Toby Huff points out, the idea of legal autonomy and corporate persons brought in its wake: constitutional government, consent in political decision - making, the right to political and legal representation, the power of adjudication and jurisdiction, and the power of autonomous legislation.

The danger of this viewpoint is an exaggerated scepticism and rationalism, inasmuch as the original «supreme powers» are seemingly reduced to mere representations.

The court does not have the power to force Italy to take down the representations of Jesus on the cross, but if its ruling stands and Italy does not comply, the door would be open for others to sue on the same grounds, court spokesman Stefano Piedimonte told CNN.

The last group is that of the ethnic - power politicizers, who claim not only that their group is beautiful, but also that the preservation, maintenance, enhancement and survival of their group depend upon the achievement of political power, whether it be through benign quotas, proportional representation, community control, caucuses — or in a few cases, outright secession, rebellion or the use of violence.

It is probable, for example, that the now enigmatic «Gog» of chapters 38 - 39 was originally Babylon, or some recognizable representation of that power, and that at a good many points the text of Ezekiel has suffered both accidental and well - intentioned alteration.

The criticism of Chris - tian broadcasters by others within the church was that they were using the inordinate power they had gained through the unrepresentative mass media to promote their own preferred and highly selective causes rather than to encourage the exercise of responsible representation.

The impatient people, to whom the reality of Moses and of God has become only a memory, remember the widespread pagan representation of deity in the form of a calf (probably a young bull, denoting primarily the strength of reproductive power and fertility, natural and human).

As a result of acting as one organization, Supply America has more than $ 1.2 billion in combined purchasing power and an extensive product representation, but still localized service, which results in reduced freight charges.

It's the Palace of Westminster itself, a representation of power in the hands of the people.

Therefore, in order to move to a proportional representation system, you would need the state officials in charge of drawing congressional districts (traditionally the state legislature) to draw districts against their own interests when it is perfectly legal to blatantly draw them in your favor (so long as you don't do so in such a way as to not explicitly dilute the power of some actual protected class, i.e. race, gender, etc.).

The shopping list which has been dusted off includes fixed term parliaments, proportional representation, electronic voting, term limits for MPs, open primaries to select MPs, a written constitution, a smaller House of Commons, House of Lords reform and reducing the power of the whips.

Having rejected both «taxation without representation» and «in - and - out», he proposed a reduction in the numbers, but not the powers, of MPs from (Scotland, Wales and Northern) Ireland, which McKay rejected.

He is the author of Industrial Power and the Soviet State (OUP, 1993) and, with Robert Rohrschneider (Kansas University), of The Strain of Representation: How Parties Represent Diverse Voters in Western and Eastern Europe (OUP, 2012), as well as many peer - reviewed articles on issues in social and political change and stability in post-Communist Europe.

Politicisation was everywhere for Thatcherites: the increased influence of pressure groups; extra-parliamentary forms of representation; extensive nationalisation; punitive taxation; the growth of trade union power and the sponsorship of law - breaking.

As power devolved over time to the populace, geographical allotment of representation was retained.

His current research focusses on the role of symbolic representations as projections of diplomatic power.

However, the party has also reiterated its belief in City Regions, a policy first mooted in the wake of the 2004 North - East regional assembly referendum defeat — stating that it will pass an «English Devolution Act» if elected into government, giving more powers to City and also County regions, and replacing the House of Lords with an elected Senate of the Nations and regions to work as a forum for regional representation.

Is there a NK «interests» section in the US, a consular arrangement for NK citizens, a protecting power arrangement, or some other kind of proxy or third - party arrangement or similar, for citizen or business protection or state representation or both, and if so what are the details??

Given the many constraints the US Constitution places on the acts that simple majorities can take — like the extraordinary representation of small states in the Senate, and the power of the filibuster to thwart majorities — it strains credulity to argue that certain geographically concentrated interests require added protection from the majority of Americans.

Just hours after the Comptroller's office shed new light on the financial practices of the New York Power Authority, a Western New York Assemblyman is calling for new representation on NYPA's Board of Trustees.

The reforms were designed to change the nature of electoral representation (the referendum on the alternative vote), alter the composition of both Houses of Parliament (boundary review and House of Lords reform), and to reduce the power of the Prime Minister to time elections.

They must litigate without the power to cross examine witnesses giving evidence against them, who may remain anonymous and absent from the court, without publicly funded legal representation, without any restriction as to the material placed before the fact - finding court, and can be found responsible for conduct on a mere balance of probabilities.»