Sentences with phrase «precarious forms»

«There is no longer any doubt that climate change poses an acute risk not only to our collective way of life but also to investments made in outdated and highly precarious forms of energy,» said Thibaud Clisson at BNP Paribas Asset Management, a signatory, in a press release.

As a duo, «they're interested in the precarious forms of labor that result from capitalist structure, and the boundaries between public and private spaces» in capitalist economies, according to the gallery's owner Vanessa Carlos.

Not exact matches

It was performed during the festival of Dionysus, which was a fertility festival, of course, but only because it was also an apotropaic celebration of delirium and death: the Dionysia was a sacred negotiation with the wild, antinomian cruelty of the god whose violent orgiastic cult had once, so it was believed, gravely imperiled the city; and the hope that prompted the feast was that, if this devastating force could be contained within bright Apollonian forms and propitiated through a ritual carnival of controlled disorder, the polis could survive for another year, its precarious peace intact.

America, being the remaining inheritor of Western world power, has yet even to try to realize that domination is no longer a possibility or a possible goal, that world power must be shared, not only with other groups with their own interests but with groups holding quite other cultural and value systems — and thus that the continuation of our power (and that of our forms of cultural order) is precarious at best.

I also accept the CDF view that «when inevitable death is imminent in spite of the means used, it is permitted... to refuse forms of treatment that would only secure a precarious and burdensome prolongation of life, so long as the normal care due to the sick person in similar cases is not interrupted.»

Perhaps our actual situation in the world is precarious enough to drive some people — especially those with extensive possessions to lose — into a defensive form of hysteria and a search for scapegoats.

In the light of that experience, we have read history again, noting the rise and fall of nations and cultures in cycles which in the perspective seem as short and are apparently as final and futile as the life - span of a man, evil manifesting itself continually in the same hideous forms, good winning its victories but also suffering its defeats, as century follows century and our tiny planet is hurled on its precarious way among the stars.

The precarious science of printing with chocolate involves bringing the three shades of confectionery to temperatures between 34c and 38c, after which point they will become too runny to form an accurate image.

we all assumed that Walcott wasn't starting due to form but the reality might be wenger is being precarious because of his injury.

Juventus know that a defeat to La Liga champions Atletico Madrid leaves them in a precarious position in Group A of the Champions League, so their main man in attack — Carlos Tevez — will have to be on top form to send the Italian giants through.

We continue to discuss the possibility of Stoke being dragged into a relegation dogfight simply because their position is a precarious one, not to mention their recent form being so hit and miss.

Information reaching The aL - hAJJ indicates the task of forming government to deliver on President Akufo - Addo's mouthwatering promises is gradually becoming an unbearable cross for the President to carry as hardliners in the governing New Patriotic Party are worsening his already precarious plight dictating who gets appointment.

Sports News of Tuesday, 8 May 2018 Source: GHANAsoccernet.com Jordan Ayew is confident Swansea can regain their top form Ghana forward Jordan Ayew is buoyant about Swansea City's chances of avoiding relegation despite their precarious position on the table.

But engineers have many creative ways both to hoard energy and extricate their robots form precarious positions — so I would not be suprised if this is just the beginning of Philae's time on 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko.

Formed between dark and light, cold and heat, North and South, Good Luck immerses its viewer in the precarious natural and social environments of two distinct labor groups so as to better understand the bonds that men share.

But when two men — scientist Dr. John Loomis (Chiwetel Ejifor) and mysterious stranger Caleb (Chris Pine)-- arrive on her family's farm, the three survivors form a precarious bond that threatens to unravel when jealousy sets in.

Release: Friday, September 30, 2011 [Redbox] Joseph Gordon - Levitt and Seth Rogen star in a precarious comedy about a young man whom is diagnosed with a rare form of spinal cancer and whom is told has a 50 - 50 chance of survival.

To maintain such a precarious situation, Seaga hired a local thug, Lester «Jim Brown» Coke, who recruited the young men of Tivoli Gardens to form the Shower Posse.

This artificial scarcity was an attempt to prop up the often - precarious businesses that still form the bulk of comic sales.

Margin of Error delves into the precarious world of technology we have built — the man - made disasters of shipwrecks, explosions, crashes — through a variety of forms, including graphic designs, industrial artifacts and paintings created by Man Ray, Margaret Bourke - White and others.

Bad Niños by Glexis Novoa imagines the utopias of revolutions past, present and future, and evidences the precarious grounds on which ideologies take form.

Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB) presents Then they form us, a new group exhibition that explores the precarious status of the «self» during its pixelated or roboticized evolution — as computers increasingly co-opt the human body during an age of ultra-connectivity.

These hanging sculptures are portraits; an open mouth and nose are outlined in two interlocking forms, resembling a precarious Dada-esque typography.

Wrestling with the simultaneous existence of abstraction and representation, «Painter» strikes a precarious note: ambiguous, but semi-recognizable forms recall the artist's early figurative works of the 1940s.

Often this takes the form of an exploration of the conditions of possibility allowing these different practices to produce meaning, and of how this signifying function is a precarious, elliptical and rather ambiguous endeavor.

The starting point for the exhibition is Blinky Palermo's Graue Scheibe from 1970, in which form attains a precarious autonomy: an irregular lozenge of shaped noncolor, floating (almost) freely on the gallery wall.

The starting point for the exhibition is Blinky Palermo's Graue Scheibe from 1970, in which form attains a precarious autonomy: an irregular lozenge of shaped noncolor, floating (almost) freely on the -LSB-...]

Increasingly baroque works in which forms are heaped on one another and bound together with steel baling wire abstractly address the precarious nature of Rosen's additive style of construction — and of life itself.

Convening luminary artists, writers, activists, and scholars to discuss how technology is transforming culture, Open Score will consider how, in light of our precarious and violent political moment, digital forms are called upon to assist us with tasks that range from the banal to the most urgent.

The haunting presence and form of this work is echoed in «Monumento a tre militari» (Monument to three soldiers)(1998) on display here: picnic baskets, characteristic of those used by soldiers on duty, are stacked on top of one another and piled high creating a precarious, towering sculpture.

«As it's solely oral with no written form, its potential for continued existence is precarious,» says Gibson.

First Attempts, the galleries of the exhibition will play host to a conversation between the artist and Jorge Ribalta, the show's curator, on photography as an instrument for capturing life at its most vulnerable and precarious, and as a public service and a form of institutional critique.

It's in this phenomenological condition for the possibility of things where meaning takes on new forms and where the viewer is engaged in more precarious and unpredictable encounters with sculptural and architectural constructions.

2016 Puff Pieces, Rachel Uffner, New York, NY The Language of Things, Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi - Fructose, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA The MAC, Belfast, United Kingdom Ambient Play, RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne, Australia ME, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany Performing for the Camera, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom Precarious Balance, CoCA, Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch, New Zealand Die sieben Todsünden, Diözesanmuseum St. Afra, Augsburg, Germany Discomfort: Experiments in Furniture, Function and Form, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clifton, NJ

In her recent installations for Documenta 13 a series of masks were formed from computer packaging and drinking glasses balanced to create a precarious bamboo forest.

As art historian Noit Banai has noted, «In this extraordinarily precarious and plural historical moment, between the war's end and the advent of Socialist Realism as official cultural policy, Andrzej Wróblewski developed a language of radical corporality in which a subject's vulnerability to divergent relations of power was given tactile form.»

Mobility aids, hygiene curtains, health posters and chairs to name a few embody a form of uncertainty and vulnerability that sit as a «precarious force somewhere between marked resilience and physical decline.»

As in previous exhibitions (for instance, the 2010 exhibition Micro, Aureo, Adela at MACRO, Rome, or Tamaris at Château de Montbéliard in 2012), salt is a central element of the work, a precarious testimony of the subtle balance between form and the unformed, pure geometry and chaos.

Sara Ouhaddou strikes a precarious balance between traditional Moroccan art forms and the conventions of contemporary art, aiming to place artistic creation's forgotten cultural continuities into perspective and lend them visibility.

His forms often seem to be frozen in movement: they remain in a perpetual state of precarious balance.

In her most recent body of work, Nushka revisits the feminine form, weighing the precarious yet fruitful balance between the traditional and contemporary.

A crucial figure in postwar contemporary art, Genzken is a sculptor whose work reimagines architecture, assemblage, and installation, giving form to new plastic environments and precarious structures.

As global ecosystems deteriorate and global warming alters water patterns — making economic growth ever more precarious — far - right global elites are counting on new technologies to spur economic growth: geo - engineering (to modify the entire planet to counteract global warming), nanotechnology (to manipulate the world at the molecular level to create novel materials) and synthetic biology (to create entirely new life - forms previously unknown in nature).

Just: Transcription, a London - based start up social enterprise rejected by the Ministry of Justice for a contract for tech - based court judgement transcription because of its precarious finances as a newly formed organisation, has secured funding from a prestigious social tech foundation to develop its work.

Freelancing, like other forms of labor, can be precarious work.