Sentences with phrase «prevailing narrative»

That designation of evil is one of the two prevailing narratives concerning genetically engineered foods.

Several works, notably Kutlug Ataman's (2004) and Walid Raad / The Atlas Group's I Was Overcome by a Momentary Panic at the Thought that I Might Be Right (2004) confront the crises of contemporary life, delving into prevailing narratives of cultural identity, while others probe the most intimate aspects of individual identity, with a particular focus on the human body in varying states of fecundity and disintegration.

This multidisciplinary catalogue from a 2015 exhibition explores a theme of transition sparked by groups challenging prevailing narratives, histories and architectures.

We accept the incomplete narrative (the current propaganda to unify the masses; the original meaning partially lost) and superimpose our own prevailing narrative.

He is also wary of the prevailing narrative around demand strength.

He believes that this prevailing narrative of business — as a selfish and exploitative enterprise — stems in part from intellectuals» attack on capitalism throughout history, which has fueled the public's mistrust and skepticism.

As you pointed out earlier, the prevailing narrative around private tech investing right now seems to be fairly negative.

Indeed, some of the conclusions of Mr. Hughes» latest research do run counter to the prevailing narrative spun by the oil industry and its Western Canadian advocates.

In recent years has grafted back the second wing of faith onto the long - prevailing narrative (even at AEI) of the American founding as a secular exercise in institutional ingenuity.

We have lost sight of a key fact: Reasonable people disagree... Higher education must counter the prevailing narrative of polarization.

The prevailing narrative of the rise of West, which focuses on the importance of the revival of Ancient Greek knowledge following the Dark Ages in paving the way for the Renaissance, the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, has a tendency to portray Europe's rise in self - contained euro - centric terms, often failing to acknowledge debts from further afield.

Though at the moment it is too early to provide much more than a diagnosis of «what went wrong», I believe that the prevailing narratives about the riots have ignored a number of factors which may have added significantly to the riots» severity.

This shows that we are some way off a meaningful shift away from the prevailing narrative which frames migration as an existential threat, justifying anything in order to control it.

Ukraine on Fire, a new documentary about the Ukraine crisis, might change how people in the West perceive the conflict, but it's unlikely to get much distribution since it contests the prevailing narrative, writes James DiEugenio.

My initial impression last night was that it was essentially a tie, but because of the lower expectations attached to Ed Miliband, the prevailing narrative would be that he edged it.

«They were just trying to brush their teeth or get out of bed, but the prevailing narrative seems to be that candle - lit bubble baths and a hot cup of tea in a stylish white - washed room full of potted succulents is the baseline for self - care.»

The prevailing narrative of Black Panther's spectacular opening weekend is that it shattered a long - held Hollywood myth that movies led by people of color — and, in Black Panther's case, rooted in black culture — don't perform well at the box office, particularly overseas.

At the conference, held at a hotel in Queens late last week, attendees discussed forming their own national organization of independent charters, to advocate for their interests and challenge the prevailing narrative around education reform.

The prevailing narrative at that time was that Cain had been chased off Twitter by harassment from an army of misogynistic trolls.

Of 14 million households, 65.2 per cent made a contribution in 2015 — the most recent year for which data was available — to one or more of the three major savings vehicles, an apparent counterpoint to the prevailing narrative that too many Canadians take a cavalier approach to retirement.

The prevailing narrative had been a Trump win would devastate global markets.

But investors are better off avoiding the prevailing narratives and instead focusing on the fundamentals of a company when identifying investment opportunities.

The prevailing narrative was that new - economy internet stocks were the wave of the future and old - economy stocks were soon - to - be-extinct dinosaurs.

The prevailing narrative of Mario games would have you believe Luigi has embraced the Samwise Gamgee role, content to dwell in the hero's shadow.

The prevailing narrative is that American art only achieved international significance with the rise of Abstract Expressionism in the 1940s.

Audiences living in or visiting the Bay Area now find an open door to the achievements of American artists previously excluded from the art world's prevailing narrative.

Such passion has nothing to do with the prevailing narratives of art, and its preference for bluster and irony, but it does have a lot to do with painting, and why I, for one, go to Walker's paintings to get the news of what it means to be alive in an indifferent universe.»

As she explains of this curation, «What surprised — really sideswiped — me was a pattern that presented a slightly oxymoronic alternative to the prevailing narrative: the manifold appearances of disappearance in his work actually offer a continuous thread of emotional, intellectual, and formal attentiveness that began when Nauman was a graduate student and continues to this day.»

Using source materials such as vintage medical books, 20th century agricultural magazines, archival photographs, USDA promotional videos, and mid-century print advertisements, my work critiques the prevailing narrative.

The prevailing narrative, that Basquiat's work declined as he reveled in fame and drugs, remains hard to dispute, but the show offers a few startling exceptions, like Riding with Death (1988), one of his last paintings.

By re-presenting and recontextualizing their work, the gallery questions the prevailing narrative of contemporary art history and encourages its revision.

Like these sister projects Womanhouse symbolized an important break with business as usual, disrupting the prevailing narratives and practices of the art world whose exclusion of women financially and critically made political action an urgent necessity.

Mitt Romney is the political establishment's best - known chameleon, so it should come as no surprise that his energy proposals merely echo and amplify the prevailing narratives crafted by GOP spin doctors.

Well, at least that is the prevailing narrative, Eckert said.

So please ignore all facts that are contrary to the prevailing narrative.

Although this trend is prevalent, it is no longer the prevailing narrative against cryptocurrencies now that mainstream adoption is underway.