As both actors and victims of ecological alterations, human agency is now so embedded within nature that the distinction between
subject and object becomes obsolete.
Not exact matches
In all other cases, what is
becoming (
subject) can not at the same time be being (
object),
and Whitehead refused to make any exceptions.
Let us call the two parties A
and B. B's property or treasure, B's heritage, B's right, is adjacent, or appears to be adjacent or is declared to be adjacent — adjacency is a phenomenally flexible term,
subject to interpretation according to what is deemed to he adjacent by the powerful covetor; B's thing which is B's by rights, by inheritance,
becomes in its adjacency an
object of passionate desire, an obsessive craving, on the part of a more powerful A.
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.
Platonic Form, Idea, Essence, Eternal
Object; Potentiality
and Givenness; Exclusiveness of the Given;
Subject - Superject,
Becoming and Being; Evaporation of Indetermination in Concrescence, Satisfaction Determinate
and Exclusive; Concrescence Dipolar... (PR 57; emphasis mine)
The baffling
subject of the various kinds of drug addiction
and use has, finally, been lifted out of the dark corners
and become an
object of public
and church concern.
The subjective form in a particular actual entity, he tells us, unlike the abstract eternal
object, is an «element in the private definiteness of that actuality» (PR 444),
and the subjective form can not be torn apart from its particular
subject without
becoming a mere universal (PR 354, 356).
In virtue of physical causation, the form of the
object becomes merely the
subject's form, a difficulty Aristotle saw
and wanted to avoid.
For Whitehead, therefore, the basic structure of all actual entities is
subject constructing itself out of
objects,
and it is by
becoming an
object for a
subject that one actual entity
becomes present in another.
Nor did the Church fully appreciate the role of the media in a free society,
and soon» instead of a
subject of inspiration or dialogue partner in the media» the Church
became a curious
object of marginal interest, occasional scandal,
and, sometimes, a whipping boy.
It is only when he comes to account for what he finds in experience that the percipient
becomes full activity, the active world
becomes the world of inert data,
and the whole is thus reduced to the fundamental structure of experience: a complex of
subject and object.
These objections are likely to be reinforced in the minds of those who make them by the qualifications which Buber sets for the philosophical anthropologist: that he must be an individual to whom man's existence as man has
become questionable, that he must have experienced the tension of solitude,
and that he must discover the essence of man not as a scientific observer, removed in so far as possible from the
object that he observes, but as a participant who only afterwards gains the distance from his
subject matter which will enable him to formulate the insights he has attained.
In this presentness it is no longer true (as it obviously is in the «having
become» world of active
subject and passive
object) that the existing beings over against us can not in some sense move to meet us as we them.
It is only when the symbolical character of
subject -
object knowledge is forgotten or remains undiscovered (as is often the case) that this «knowledge» ceases to point back toward the reality of direct dialogical knowing
and becomes instead an obstruction to it.
Children
become —
and have already
become —
objects which others have the right to as opposed to
subjects with rights themselves.
This dialectic provides categories, within our contemporary context, for discerning how communal expressions, when they are cut off from transformative communal experiences,
become «objective»
and «institutionalized» in ways which dichotomize
subjects and objects, experiences
and expressions.
The old
subject /
object distinction is redefined to be the relation of the
becoming of the entity (
subject)
and the
subject, having
become, is then data for other
subjects (
object).
It is the thinking - feeling
subject, the cogito,
and not just the
object, the religious symbol, which must now undergo deeper exploration, in order that it can
become open to the reality expressed in symbols.
The psychic processes, which were the content of conscious
and unconscious experience,
became for them also the
objects of awareness,
and these were, to an astonishing degree, thereby
subjected to conscious control.
Actual entities, however, are primarily
subjects,
subjects of their own
becoming,
and though even as
subjects they can
become objects, they can not have existence exclusively as
objects.
When, through the «breaking - through,» i.e., through a «cutting off» of the ego from the world,
and through an identification of the ego with the motivating dynamis of the unconscious, this severance is once more resolved, God disappears as
object and becomes the
subject which is no longer distinguished from the ego, i.e., the ego as a relatively late product of differentiation,
becomes once more united with the mystic, dynamic, universal participation (participation mystique of the primitives).1
Nature, creation,
object, fact,
and event then progressively, but ever more fully
and totally,
became manifest
and real as the dichotomous opposites of consciousness, God,
and subject.
Yes, because this is a nature which is immediately apprehended as
subject,
and it is the
subject itself which
becomes object in its own act of experience
and understanding.
God would have to be only the potentiality for a creature's
becoming a
subject, never an
object;
and this is far from the biblical view Ford wants to support.
In so far as that which through its relation to belief
becomes historical
and as historical
becomes the
object of belief (the one corresponds to the other) has an immediate existence,
and is immediately apprehended, it is not
subject to error.
What this entails is that the
object of technology
becomes the
subject and the
subject becomes the
object.
That is to say, in a technopoly, one's need for efficiency rather than social reform or greater philosophical or religious inquiry
becomes the means
and end, the
subject and object, of society
and culture.
The key to how an actual occasion
becomes lies in the interaction that takes place between the
subject (actual occasion) prehending
and the data (past occasions
and / or eternal
objects) being prehended.
In this essay, I have referred only to the book of Genesis
and thus have chosen not to mention the prohibitions against homosexuality included in Leviticus, for it seems to me that what is at stake now is not homosexuality, which is a fact, a reality, whatever my view of it as a rabbi might be, but the risk of irreversibly scrambling genealogies, questions of legal
and social status (the child - as -
subject becoming child - as -
object),
and identities — a confusion that would be harmful to society as a whole
and that would lose sight of the general interest in seeking the advantage of a tiny minority.
What is at stake is the risk of irreversibly scrambling genealogies, as well as legal
and social statuses (the child - as -
subject becoming child - as -
object)
and identities — a confusion that would be harmful to society as a whole
and that would lose sight of the general interest in seeking the advantage of a tiny minority.
The result is that the supposedly neutral referees of the global market (institutions such as the World Trade Organization)
become themselves
objects of the competition,
subject to bribery
and behind - the - scenes efforts by corporate entities to sway the outcome in their favour.
In the scanner,
subject and object had
become indistinguishable.
And so over time you actually establish this continuity, the boundaries
become permeable, in that there's not so much discontinuity that you're experiencing, you're beginning to see what boundary
objects you can use to move across the different
subject areas.
Hyper - individualization does precisely what the emerging body of research says it does
and more: it isolates children, it breeds competition, it assumes that children can learn entirely on their own,
and it dehumanizes the learning environment, reducing the human experience of learning down to a mechanistic process, one where children
become the
objects of learning as opposed to the
subjects of their own educational narrative.»
Writing a comparative analysis presupposes the presentation of points in common
and points, which differ two or more
objects you have chosen to
become the
subjects of your writing a comparative analysis.
When you read the samples of comparison
and contrast essay, you learn how to arrange your own comparison contrast essay, which points to mention,
and how to hold an analysis of the
objects you have chosen to
become subject of your work.
Schneemann, then,
became the consummate auto - didact:
subject and object of her process.
The familiar digital arrows point to
becoming -
subject and becoming -
object, charged with Art Historical
and pop cultural attitudes toward the female body.
Through his use of the material of inscription, the door
becomes both
subject and object of its own creation.
By exposing the naked body
and concealing it under layers of paint, cosmetics
and latex, Huanca's performers confront our instinctive reactions to flesh, which
becomes both a familiar, decorative
object and an abstract, inaccessible
subject.
Drips
and splatters of paint
became his visual vocabulary, freeing painting from
object and subject in favor of pure gesture.
Altfest has commented that «The paintings of men seem to have an inverse relationship to still life, with the men
becoming less like human
subjects and more like still life
objects.»
The works in the show»... reveals the artist's inventive approach to his quotidian
subjects which loom larger than life on paper
and become transformative sculptural
objects in tar
and plaster,» according to the gallery.
This curated exhibition of new work by our current 3D Design students will explore how today's most pressing challenges — such as social
and economic inequalities, rampant material consumption,
and environmental degradation — can
become subjects for critical
and poetic reflection in design
objects.
With the help of around a hundred or so employees in his New York studio, he deals with popular culture
subjects and often creates reproductions of banal
objects, elevating their status to
becoming works of art.
When DeFeo
became intrigued with the visual
and metamorphic possibilities of the tripod, she found the perfect
subject to explore, merging her interest in the anthropomorphic transformation of inanimate
objects with her experimental use of photography
and other media.
In a reaction against the large, brash paintings that
became popular in the «80s, artists
became increasingly introspective as they looked to everyday
objects and the people in their immediate social circles as
subjects for their art.
That book
became the
subject of Freud's psychoanalytic essay Delusion
and Dream in Jensen's Gradiva (1907), which in turn obsessed a long line of Surrealists
and their kin — from Dalí (who nicknamed his wife after her), to Breton (who named a gallery after her) to Duchamp (whose erotic
objects honored her) to Masson, Barthes, Derrida,
and Robbe - Grillet.
Plakidas explores the bi-polarities of the profane
and the sacred; of the circus tent
and the church, with self portraits
and a number of additional props such as a circus wagon
and flying geese, The artists writes: «The devotional
object becomes the exhibitionist
subject and the site of worship
becomes the enclosed space of a child's fantasy».
The central theme
becomes less about the immediate
subject at hand; instead resonating more in the relationship between
object and viewer, highlighting the pathos
and inevitability of forces that are greater than both.