Sentences with phrase «technological culture as»

By mono - culture we mean the undermining of economic, cultural and ecological diversity, the nearly universal acceptance of technological culture as developed in the West and its values.

Not exact matches

Building a new business takes more than technological skills and creative genius — it needs people, and if you're going to create a great culture as well as a great product, those people need tending to in a plethora of different ways.

In a culture that is geared to aggressive attainment and that demands a kind of technological efficiency even in sex, many men are imbued with a fear of relating to women in sex as full equals.

In Technopoly, Neil Postman says that overly technological cultures, «driven by the impulse to invent, have as their aim a grand reductionism in which human life must find its meaning in machinery and technique.»

Our Western culture has moved so rapidly in the past half century, our ways of thinking have been so affected by the scientific, technological, and secular advances, that our situation seems divorced almost completely from society as presupposed in biblical and traditional theological thinking.

Since then, for a number of reasons (air and water pollution, health concerns ignored and in fact unknown by scientific medicine, ecological issues), this questioning of the omnicompetence of the scientific method to uncover the truth, and of the creative value of technological «progress,» has deepened and spread and now penetrates much further into the culture as a whole.

It seems we are in for the long - haul as regards re-evangelising a technological culture.

As the technological era permeates cultures worldwide, the mass media are increasingly employed as a tool of the production - consumption cycle rather than as a resource for the education, information, and entertainment required for the well - being of all people, an element essential to the development of citizens in any democracAs the technological era permeates cultures worldwide, the mass media are increasingly employed as a tool of the production - consumption cycle rather than as a resource for the education, information, and entertainment required for the well - being of all people, an element essential to the development of citizens in any democracas a tool of the production - consumption cycle rather than as a resource for the education, information, and entertainment required for the well - being of all people, an element essential to the development of citizens in any democracas a resource for the education, information, and entertainment required for the well - being of all people, an element essential to the development of citizens in any democracy.

If, as Hall and others suggest, the flaw in technological society runs so deep in Western thought and culture, the solutions to our present difficulties (if any there be) must indeed be radical.

There he portrays modernity and the technological prowess of modernity as a spider swallowing up its prey — culture, tradition, and humanity itself.

Technological change, above all, doomed the fight for decency in American popular culture, as every successive technological innovation weakened the power of regulators, moral and otherwise, while expanding the venues where human weakness could be exploited for fun and profit (mainly the latter).

Twentieth - century technological achievements have shaped our culture: automobiles, lasers, jet engines, rockets, nuclear reactors, as well as many others.

How do parents take care of babies in cultures unchanged by such technological marvels as the clock, the baby bottle, and the baby carriage?

As technological and economic developments bring an unprecedented clash of cultures, electronic learning will play a pivotal role in helping to promote not only a global market, but a global community.

Though some observers, including multiple - intelligences guru Howard Gardner, point to schools as the «conservators» of our culture, and therefore instinctively conservative in what they do, the resistance comes more from the fact that our public school system has evolved an extremely delicate balance between many sets of pressures — political, parental, social, organizational, supervisory, and financial — that any technological change is bound to disrupt.

Cultural competency requires, first and foremost, that teachers see themselves as lifelong learners who will inevitably encounter new cultures in the classroom, whether immigrant, racial, technological, stylistic, and more.

According to Colvin respected music artist Nitin Sawhney was a clear choice as composer: «We wanted someone with a genuine grounding in Eastern culture who was equally at home with contemporary or classical forms, as well as being completely comfortable with the project's technological setting.

All of the works featured in the exhibition — ranging from video games, single channel video, kinetic sculpture, and prints, to pen plotter drawings — have been created by means of technological tools with an emphasis on the mixing and matching of both professional and amateur technologies, as well as the vernaculars these technologies encourage within culture at large.

As culture shifts, moving with changes in the social and political landscape or technological innovations, so does the art being produced.

These paintings are undeniably, perhaps suspiciously, seductive, but in terms of today's wider culture Reed is competing for attention in a world that's been blindsided with such wild technological opiates as The Polar Express in 3 - D IMAX.

The event focuses on «the body as an object and a brand», exploring its representation within the public realm and within contemporary visual culture, and how they, in turn, affect one's relationship with his / her own body as it continues to be «disciplined by technological mediation on screen».

The technological boom that occurred at the start of the decade also had a dramatic impact, as the rise of the home computer and the spread of the Internet made it easier than ever before for cultures and countries to interact with each other.

These cultures (their tactics and strategies) return control to the users and remodels relationships between the individual and the institutional edifice: in academia, in the arts, technological fields of practice, and as part of everyday life.

Drawing on a wealth of concepts and subjects from the atomic and the cosmic, geometry and optics, to time, rotation and visual perception, Seeing Round Corners will also include a selection of objects and images from world cultures, religions and history such as scientific instruments, technological images and works from spiritual and mystical traditions.

From her lecture, «The Struggle for Culture Today is the Struggle for Life,» Mendieta writes, «The US, the greatest imperialist power, rich in material as well as technological resources, maintains some of the most shameful, hurting and inhuman forms of racial, economic and social descriminations [sic] amongst its own people.

Intended as a mirror held up to the electronic age, his art raises new millennium themes of digital transformation, technological mediation, social media - based interpersonal relationships, and computers as prosthesis and repositories of human personality and culture.

Photographic imagery is ubiquitous in our culture, and artists have a particularly complex relationship to the technological image, both as creators and as critics of our culture.

The eighteen works in the exhibition explore subjects including imagery related to advertising, branding, and corporate culture; the flattening of hierarchies between perceived high and low art; the blurred boundaries between the handmade and the technological; and the visual manifestation and capturing of speed as images move through digital frameworks.

Italian architect Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, partner at OMA working on preservation, scenography and curation, is both leading OMA Urban Studies, as well as the team of creative mediators, which includes the Swiss contemporary art curator Mirjam Varadinis, who works in Kunsthaus Zurich and was co-curator of TRACK, a large scale city - wide international exhibition in the tradition of «Chambres d'amis» in Ghent, Belgium; Spanish architect, artist and scholar based in New York and Madrid, Andrés Jaque, the founder of the Office of Political Innovation, working on the intersection of research, politics and design; and Dutch filmmaker and journalist Bregtje van der Haak, who has been directing international documentaries and transmedia projects on long - term social change with a special focus on urbanisation and technological culture.

Balancing their traditional culture with this modern technological development will be an ongoing objective, but as of this month, Mongolia is taking an important step towards its vision of a clean energy future with the launch of the first wind farm in the country.

As Slaw readers will know, one of the themes that recurs here quite frequently is the role of publishing and books in this culture of rapid technological change.

Much like Naruto, the famous selfie - snapping black crested macaque, the Trees debacle raises a number of questions of how the Copyright Act of 1976 and DMCA's Fair Use doctrine should be applied to a rapidly evolving technological culture, especially as AI and machine learning techniques approach ubiquity.