- The Economist «On one level, [River of Smoke] is a remarkable feat of research, bringing alive the hybrid customs of food and dress and the competing philosophies of the period with intimate precision; on another it is
a subversive act of empathy, viewing a whole panorama of world history from the «wrong» end of the telescope.
We can try pruning away the patriarchal elements of American evangelicalism or we could try a scorched earth approach, she says, but the most effective thing we can do is participate in the life - giving and
subversive act of planting new trees:
Shared silence in peace and solidarity in the context of a jail is possibly the most
subversive act of resistance to the jail's culture of terrorization and violence that one might devise.
Not exact matches
Mass reporting accounts on Twitter you don't like is no longer an
act of subversive cowardice but something praiseworthy.
Offred also creates her own
subversive counter-texts and continually practices the mental
acts of poetic synthesis and analysis, remaking distinctions that the State elides and reviving the language for which she hungers in this famine
of the Word.
form
of government, and emboldened by the wide diffusion
of a false conception
of tolerance, has committed itself in authoritative declarations and by positive
acts to a policy plainly
subversive of religious liberty as guaranteed by the Constitution.
Understanding the local church story is
subversive: this
act of apparent self - reference brings to consciousness the symbolic forms and processes that bind together all humanity.
As Dominic Crossan has pointed out, Jesus»
acts of healing were always
subversive.
In Scripture we learn that solitude can be a
subversive act against the cultural and social pressures that come from constantly subjecting oneself to the opinions and judgments
of others.
(Galatians 2:10) The first
act of subversive redistribution started with some tuna sandwiches.
While Burberry — first under American businesswoman Rose Marie Bravo who installed Bailey as designer and then under the double -
act of Angela Ahrendts as chief executive and Bailey as creative director — focused on its distinctive British heritage, Tisci's track record shows his heart to be in a dark, gothic sensibility laced with a
subversive southern Mediterranean soul.
The
act of audience deception here is brilliant — especially as the film shifts gears from a traditional but warm storytelling approach to a
subversive and dramatically vibrant narrative as it deconstructs the family and allows room for far more questions than what it seemingly starts with.
Whether it's Invasion
of the Body Snatchers, Night
of the Living Dead, Rosemary's Baby, or Videodrome, the best horror films
act as
subversive social commentaries, dealing with humanity's fears and offering a communal catharsis.
A film that already starts out oddly enough — as a kind
of subversive biopic about a low point in Miles Davis» life — gets even stranger as it morphs into an ode to «70s blaxploitation movies, before a third
act in which it completely disables the brakes.
I believe teaching is a
subversive art and an
act of social justice.
In these days where skills not readily measured by standardized tests are under - taught, teaching critical thinking skills has become something
of a
subversive act.
(f) As used in this title, the phrase «unlawful employment practice» shall not be deemed to include any action or measure taken by an employer, labor organization, joint labor - management committee, or employment agency with respect to an individual who is a member
of the Communist Party
of the United States or
of any other organization required to register as a Communist - action or Communist - front organization by final order
of the
Subversive Activities Control Board pursuant to the
Subversive Activities Control
Act of 1950.
I agree with those who have said it seems more a method
of survival than a
subversive act.
For Muholi and the members
of the Inkanyiso collective, just documenting the existence
of LGBTI individuals can be a
subversive act: Once, burglars broke into Muholi's house and stole the hard drives containing her work.
Pecou's recent exhibition GRAV • I • TY framed the fashion trend
of sagging (wearing pants below the belt line) as a similarly
subversive political
act with complicated history.
At the centre
of the exhibition, Isaac Julien will be staging a dramatic recital
of Marx's Das Kapital every day
of the seven - month Biennale, an
act of homage that somehow can't help but sound
subversive.
Hickey, writing beautifully in 25 Women: Essays on Their Work, says
of Heilmann that among the entire generation
of artists who embarked on second
acts in their careers following AIDS, the shooting
of Andy Warhol, and seismic shifts in the New York art world, «Mary Heilmann's has to have been the bravest and most
subversive, the one that actually raises the bar.»
I place the beginning
of the end at «theanyspacewhatever,» the 2008 Guggenheim group show
of «
subversive» critiques that remains the most indulgent
act of museum masturbation I've ever seen — and I lived through the Thomas Krens years.
Featuring work by artists who are «altering materials and repurposing objects that prompt viewers to investigate the
act of looking and perceiving,» the unifying theme behind the impending group exhibition «Deviate» may be a little broad but it makes for a show that speaks to CH's penchant for the obsessively
subversive.
Each
of the ten participating artists challenges the
act of seeing through the
subversive use
of materiality to deny the fixity
of the still image.