On the cover: Superflex's contract and settlement agreement; LA's vibrant performance art scene; Liz Magic Laser discusses politics and socioeconomic
structures within society; and reviews including Jeremy Deller, Lis Rhodes, Leigh Ledare and Claire Fontaine
The artist's agenda and interest seems clear: she wants to discuss politics and socioeconomic
structures within society, and alongside that, she wants to discuss human relations.
to communicate the gradual emergence of mental
structures within societies in terms of continuity rather than discontinuity.
Not exact matches
Here Wolf is simply following the lead of those Whiteheadians who, consciously or unconsciously, ascribe the unity of a
structured society to the dominant occasion
within the
society.
Yet, given this new understanding of Whiteheadian
societies, Wolf has trouble imagining presiding occasions
within structured societies if they simply occupy one small space
within the
society just like all the subordinate occasions.
This distinction between subordinate
societies and subordinate nexus of occasions
within structured societies is extremely important for Whitehead's discussion of «living»
societies a few pages later.
Rather than positing a dualism of political
structures, as
within an exodus framework, the New Testament posits a dualism between communities of values
within a single
society.
Some people still believe that our problems can be solved
within the basic
structures of our
society.
The changes in social
structures of moral action, which previously were strongly linked to and supportive of Christian faith, has important implications both to how we conceive our relationship as Christians to our host
society, and how we nurture ethical behaviour
within adherents of the Christian faith who also participate fully as members of this
society.
«A
structured society as a whole provides a favourable environment for the subordinate
societies which it harbours
within itself.
Griffin, of course, has in mind a
structured society which is organized monarchically, i.e., in terms of a regnant
society and various subordinate
societies within the
structured society as a whole.
Hence, only in virtue of their relationship to one another
within the
structured society which is the divine community are the three divine persons truly God, i.e., the Supreme Being, than which nothing greater can be thought.4
This generic
structure, I propose, is characteristic, not only of the divine community, but likewise of all other
societies, in the Whiteheadian sense of the term,
within the world process.
Only if a Whiteheadian
society can be said to exercise agency proper to itself could one use the more specialized category of
structured society to describe the interrelation of three divine persons
within the Godhead.
Would it be possible to use Whitehead's notion of
society (or, better, of a
structured society) to describe the Trinity as a community of coequal persons who are themselves in process, hence who are subordinate personally ordered
societies within the «democratic»
structured society which is the community as such?
I shall not endorse Royce's own conception of the Trinity in this book, since it is more Sabellian or modalistic than genuinely Trinitarian.3 Rather, my intention is first to summarize Royce's understanding of human community, then to make clear how it corresponds to a democratically organized
structured society within a Whiteheadian perspective, and finally to apply this understanding of community to the Trinity in order to clarify the notion of God as a community of divine persons.
The anthropologist Claude Lévi Strauss argued that symbolic
structures within human
societies, including their kinship systems and their mythologies, could be analyzed in the same way, as systems of differences
structured according to binary oppositions (e.g., life / death; male / female; hunting / farming; outside / inside).
Griffin, it will be remembered, affirmed this same possibility for monarchically organized
structured societies within a Whiteheadian perspective; according to his way of thinking, the regnant
society within that
structured society enables the
society as a whole to possess that higher unity and exercise that more comprehensive agency.
The sense of living
within a dependable
structure — the laws of nature, the principles of the psychological and spiritual life, the requirements of life in
society.
Within that tradition, both in its political and ecclesial expression, authority is a way of ordering power within a community in such a way that, at one and the same time, it supports and augments common beliefs and ways of life and is regularly and harmoniously conjoined with a structure of offices that gives order to the exercise of authority and power within the particular society in que
Within that tradition, both in its political and ecclesial expression, authority is a way of ordering power
within a community in such a way that, at one and the same time, it supports and augments common beliefs and ways of life and is regularly and harmoniously conjoined with a structure of offices that gives order to the exercise of authority and power within the particular society in que
within a community in such a way that, at one and the same time, it supports and augments common beliefs and ways of life and is regularly and harmoniously conjoined with a
structure of offices that gives order to the exercise of authority and power
within the particular society in que
within the particular
society in question.
Whitehead speaks of a
structured society as one that «provides a favorable environment for the subordinate
societies which it harbors
within itself» (PR 99).
He makes a strong case that the idea of covenant, drawn from scripture and developed variously in different cultures and
societies, is particularly suited to support public, just, pluralistic, federalist
structures within the church and in the government.
As noted above, the concrescing actual entities
within a given
structured society prehend in different ways a common world, i.e., the concrete interrelatedness of their immediate predecessors together with the common element of form which bound them together as this rather than that
society.2 This feeling of both emerging out of and yet still belonging to a unified whole is then incorporated into their individual processes of concrescence.
It is a commonplace to observe that human identity is formed
within the matrix of roles and
structures that constitute a
society.
Women's organizations and fellowships, such as the Mothers» Unions, represent critical
structures for lay participation
within the churches and allow women's voices to be heard in the wider
society.
The state is the climactic moment in Hegel's philosophy of objective Spirit and his Philosophy of Right.14 Rationality and freedom both achieve their peak
within the concrete
structures of human
society in the state, which exists as a result of the actions of individual finite spirits and is in virtue of this the result of the movement of the Spirit in history.
There is also a chiasm between thought and its object: «Being is the «place» where the «modes of consciousness» are inscribed as structurations of Being (a way of thinking oneself
within a
society is implied in its social
structure), and where the structurations of Being are modes of consciousness» (VIV 253).
Whitehead seems to mean by a systematic geometry that it is a geometry representing a
structure of uniform curvature yet not a geometry identified as one of the particular uniform metric geometries.6 Further, this systematic geometry, exemplified
within the presented duration, is taken to be a defining characteristic of the «geometrical»
society, a basic member of a hierarchy of
societies comprising the present cosmic epoch (PR 148 - 59K Thus Whitehead explains that the perceptive mode of presentational immediacy is of importance, for it exhibits a»... complex of systematic mathematical relations which participate in all the nexuses of our cosmic epoch, in the widest meaning of that term.»
In many books and articles over the years, I have argued that Whiteheadian
societies, while not possessing agency in and of themselves, nevertheless possess an objective ontological unity from moment to moment in virtue of the collective agency of their constituent actual occasions2 The unity thus achieved is in my view the unity of an ongoing
structured field of activity for successive generations of actual occasions undergoing concrescence
within the field.
For, in line with this proposal one can postulate that the universe or cosmic process is at any given moment an all - encompassing «
structured society» or
structured field of activity for all the actual entities emergent
within it.4 Each actual entity, therefore, is able to derive its defining characteristic or common element of form from the ongoing
structure of the
society or
societies to which it belongs.
That is, it is easier to propose that the trinitarian God of Christian orthodoxy is a
structured society of three personally ordered
societies of actual occasions than to think of three persons as somehow coexisting
within the one ever - concrescing transcendent actual entity in Whitehead's scheme.
Sometimes I fear we have marriages that are functionally egalitarian, because they are
within the
structure of the larger
society.
The third of the major functions of traditional religious faith is to provide a body of belief
structures which serve to harmonise the many disparate ideas, experiences and institutions
within society in such a way that individual as well as corporate needs and aspirations are given expression.
It became clear that we were not providing adequate opportunity for our students to come to terms with the problem of racism, either
within themselves or
within the institutional
structure of the church and of
society.
In its admirable attempt to «create a «religiously informed public philosophy»» (as George Weigel's interlocutor posited), First Things should explicitly incorporate in its social mission the teaching of Pope John Paul II in Reconciliation and Penance: The radical cause of division between persons and
within societies, institutions, and
structures is sin.
But one day hence will a one - party dictatorship or an all - powerful leader strike down these
structures of freedom
within the movement, like later Lenin crushing the soviets or Robespierre leading the chapter -
societies to the guillotine?
Out of praxis that aims at transforming oppressive social power arrangements arise fresh theoretical understandings of the
structure and dynamics of oppressive relationships
within society.
Once lawlessness takes hold on
society, it destroys the
structure of it from
within.
Social isolation, writes Hudson, combined with dependency on local social
structures, may further prevent integration
within the wider
society.
Researchers from Boston College and Harvard have created an elusive honeycomb -
structured material capable of frustrating the magnetic properties
within it in order to produce a chemical entity known as «spin liquid,» long theorized as a gateway to the free - flowing properties of quantum computing, according to a new report in the Journal of the American Chemical
Society.
These latest findings, published in Molecular Pharmaceutics, a journal of the American Chemical
Society, report on the
structure - activity relationship (SAR) of the hydroxyl group
within the agent's lactone ring.
In context, the «unequal status of women and girls»
within Somali
society «sharply increases their vulnerability» to many forms of violations key among them «gender - based violence during humanitarian crisis» as with any individual or family displacement more so due to conflict and drought, existing «community support
structures» are disrupted exposing them to «unsafe physical surrounding» (Ibid) thereby increasing their vulnerability to exploitation.
The violence inherent in domination - reproduced many times in educational systems exists in so many different facets of our culture and is deep
within the
structures of globalised
societies.
Quite a bit of the discussion is along the predictable and tired paths of building in some corrective measures into «business as usual» scenarios, but at least a few brave voices from
within civil
society and some governments are pushing for more fundamental changes in economic and political
structures.
Your upcoming exhibition is framed as «working
within the parameters set forth by the
structure and progression of Palermo's installation...» How did you and Øvstebø navigate working
within Palermo's parameters in the context of the Renaissance
Society's distinct space?
There is a common interest
within all of my work — contemplations upon the human condition in relation to
structures of power, historically and
within contemporary
society — the relationship between the oppressed and the oppressor.
[4] Inspired by the concept / model of Joseph Beuys social sculpture, that have the potential to transform
society, ART / MEDIA was an extended artwork that included human interactions, creating
structures and systems
within society using language, thought, objects, events and actions.
File recently graduated from Chelsea College of Art and will be discussing his performative practice that reflects on the function of institutions and networks in
society drawing principally on governmental, legal, corporate and media
structures and ideas of individual identity and authenticity
within these.
Victoria Miro stages a group exhibition by artists concerned with socio - political issues of their day, who question the status quo and the power
structures found
within societies, and who take the language of protest as a means to explore its potency.
«Protest» is an exhibition of historical and contemporary works by sixteen artists concerned with the socio - political issues of their day, who question the status quo and the power
structures found
within societies, and who take the language of protest as a means to explore its potency.