Sentences with phrase «utopian promises»

Together, they create a melting pot of different time zones, mixing utopian promises from the past with dystopian fantasies, and glimpses of potential new futures,» says Joa Ljungberg, curator of the exhibition.

WOC feminism shares its roots with the birth of the internet, which Nakamura argues is no coincidence: the utopian promises of both movements have differed in their success levels, yet life remains precarious for women of colour in 2018 both under Trump and on the internet.

Plasma torches, signal jammers, makeshift weapons, and the iconic motion trackers all force the player to confront a future where technology has failed in its utopian promises by turning our dependence on machines into a source of horror and vulnerability.

Her next book, The Troubled Crusade: American Education 1945 - 80, trained a withering eye on what she saw as a history of failed reforms ranging from Lyndon Johnson - era anti-poverty programs to utopian promises of computer - assisted learning.

President John Mahama has warned Ghanaians not to get inveigled by the numerous utopian promises made by the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo - Addo — describing him as a «spectator.»

He also mocked the Akufo - Addo government, saying it is now feeling the reality of governance vis - à - vis the utopian promises it made during the 2016 elections.

Utopian promises will always attract more Jews than they reasonably should, but most of us have learned caution.

Kimball worries whether America, now in the grips of «crowd politics» rallying to Utopian promises, might be headed in the direction of what Friedrich Hayek, following Tocqueville, called «the road to serfdom».

n the Grimms» world, evil may rule, but there is also the utopian promise that with a sense of right and wrong, plus some magic, one might be able to live happily ever after.

Bordering on the amateur, Pousette - Dart undermines any classicism inherent in abstract art's utopian promise.

It was a diverse scene that held out a hint of utopian promise at a time when Abstract Expressionism was waning and new categories had not yet hardened: It included many more women than the uptown art world; it was not completely white; abstraction and figuration jostled side by side (if not always comfortably), along with genre - bending sculpture; and the gloriously messy birth of modern performance art took place in the midst of it all.

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According to DIA, the painting «evokes a sense of speed, dynamism, struggle and potential associated with the early - 20th - century utopian promise of a better future.

Today, the political role of art is mostly seen as being twofold: (1) critique of the dominant political, economic, and art system, and (2) mobilization of the audience toward changing this system through a Utopian promise.

The artist has been exploring the relationship between Modernism and its manifestations in the contemporary via two new bodies of work; Coventry questions Modernism's «utopian promise», deconstructing its power via juxtapositions with post-modern contexts.

The utopian promise of these «everything is perfect» paintings leave out a lot of the actual history of America's foundation.

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Disgruntled investors turn off funding, disillusioned staff leave, the company folds and the scientific community forever links General Fusion with Cold Fusion and other utopian scientific promises.

And yet an unflagging trust in the divine promise of social fulfillment is, even from the point of view of «practicality,» the only attitude that can adequately respond to our «impossible» dilemma of utopian naivete on the one hand or cynicism on the other.

The project with the utopian - sounding title of universal credit (UC) will, Duncan Smith promises, «put hope back where it has gone» and «give people from chaotic lives security through hard work».

However, he said they [NDC] will keep the NPP on its toes to ensure they fulfill all their «utopian» promises they made to Ghanaians.

The build - up feels long by today's standards, but the glimpse that Peckinpah offers of what paradise might be like in his utopian Sodoms of grinning peasantry bearing promises of food, booze, and sex sets the table for a post-orgiastic deflation that is the only alternative to the bloodbath that ends it.

And he fulfilled his campaign promise to students at Utopian Academy for the Arts charter school, who sang «Georgia on My Mind» at the Inauguration.

This attempt at a utopian ideal starts off promising, but soon the gentle equilibrium among the families disintegrates: unspoken resentments between the couples begin to fester; the project's funding becomes tenuous; and Izzy's growing feelings for Dr. Grind make her question her participation in this strange experiment in the first place.

Despite the promises of utopian hedonism, many youth and middle - aged adults quickly enticed by these did not escape from their addictions easily, if at all.

For example, on average, baby boomers have a generally positive view of retirement — no doubt shaped in part by the incessant financial services commercials that promise a utopian post-career existence with beaches, sailboats, golf and an unlimited supply of vintage Pinot Noir.

Like I said, I'm just a cartoonist... The good news is, to lead a tribe you don't necessarily have to have a promised land, a utopian vision, or a new world order to lead a tribe.

Aiming to replace outmoded bourgeois art forms, avant - garde Soviets turned to models: objects defying classification that promised a utopian dissolution of the categories of artistic production.

Ranging from Constructing Revolution: Soviet Propaganda Posters from between the World Wars, which presents propaganda posters produced in the wake of the Russian Revolution, to Dmitri Baltermants: Documenting and Staging a Soviet Reality, which explores the work of a photojournalist depicting World War II and its aftermath in the USSR, Bowdoin's fall exhibitions explore both the promise of utopian idealism and the devastation of war in an era of extreme political upheaval.

``... The first cohesive body of paintings I made was the «Garden Projects» when I was living near Stateway Gardens and Wentworth Gardens here in Chicago — public housing projects that had been built with utopian notions of beauty and good living in mind, but were unable to maintain the promise of their pastoral - sounding names,» he said.

This exhibition brings together four artists who, in a variety of ways, display an interest in subverted or obsolete modernity, referencing technology, architecture and design that offer up optimistic promises of a utopian future.

The artist prized dance as much as abstract art as an expressive and creative form, revealing his faith in the promise of utopian new worlds.

At the same time, Gillick's design decisions are frequently informed by progressive art movements from earlier eras (De Stijl, the Bauhaus): varieties of functional, utopian modernism that promised a transformed world.

Contemplating the inescapable physical temporality of human life and promise of site, «In Time / Out of Place» suggests anxiously utopian, restless yet optimistically futuristic view of the world.

The promotional material on the website of the virtual reality developer Oculus Rift makes some lofty, near - utopian claims, promising users an experience unlike anything else.

Though it sounds like science - fiction (the connections Chu draws with quantum mechanics and the multiverse verge toward the poetic), his vision can trace some of its roots to the tenets of the organic architecture that Frank Lloyd Wright helped popularize, and to the 1960s, when architects around the world blended utopian ideals with the promise of new technologies.

Utopian environmentalism has, to some extent, always promised to heal the alienation wrought by modernity.