Sentences with phrase «utopian vision»

A prolific visionary, Frederick's drawings and paintings possess an abundance of idealism, realized as utopian visions of the future - proclamations from «Glory News», superhero first responders defeating armies of demons, or a «love and justice» rocket ship flying overhead.

There's no shortage of utopian visions in the IT industry, but the journey to cloud computing that some folks espouse makes...

Situated at the intersection between art, architecture and science, Tomás Saraceno's artistic practice is an articulation of utopian vision for new forms of sustainable living and cohabitation.

It could be said to be represented by utopian visions that began to be taken seriously from the seventeenth century onwards.

Probably nothing could detach MoMA from Modernism or Modernism from utopian visions.

(2:28) Utopian visions need to be rooted in the earth of present actualities, but must extend to the heaven of future possibilities.

At one level, separatism is represented by literary utopian visions (like those of Sally Gearhart and Charlotte Perkins Gilman) in which women form woman - identified, male - excluding communities.

As I have indicated, change and transformation will be offered from new voices and new perspective — new voices representing the pluralism within culture as a whole and within theological education, and new perspectives that allow us to speak about practices and utopian visions within these practices.

It seeks to transcend utopian visions of the future that had been built up out of our previous wishings.

-- was the concept of the Big Society, a peculiar coagulation of policies that was at best a faintly utopian vision of a country where community togetherness and voluntary organisations could provide public services at a local level, and at worst a deeply cynical attempt to hide a savage program of spending cuts behind a cupcake.

The second cycle of the museum's millennial trilogy focuses on the years between 1920 and 1960, reconsidering utopian visions, the art of social protest, and the backlash against Modernism.

But suspend your skepticism and embrace the aesthetically utopian vision for the duration of your visit.

In the projection's foreground, the «Fliegende Stadt» can be seen with its rotating towers, a transparent construction based upon Russian architect Georgi Krutikow's 1928 thesis, whose utopian vision was of a flying city, where people would live and work, returning to earth only for recreation.

Nearby, William Villalongo presents a different utopian vision in «Jubilee», a painting shaped like a fan depicting a bucolic scene that's somewhere between «The Luncheon on the Grass» and the decor one might encounter during lunch at a Chinese restaurant.

While bright, Raysse's most recent paintings are more brooding than the works from his Pop years, demonstrating a less utopian vision of society.

The spaces in the «Candy Lands» of her work relate to immigrant utopian visions of the American Dream.

Her social practice utilizes sites of socially acceptable forms of intimacy as another method of exploring utopian visions.

2015 Moving Image, a book in Whitechapel Gallery's «Documents of Contemporary Art» series, reprints an excerpt from «Cable TV's Failed Utopian Vision: An Interview with Dara Birnbaum» by Dara Birnbaum and Nicolás Guagnini from Cabinet no. 9

Utopian vision became a way of celebrating life.

Located in a former Bell Labs building on the lower West side, it was converted by Richard Meier with utopian visions of an artists community bettering the world.

The techno - utopian vision depends on a belief that, with the advent of the new geological epoch, nothing essential has changed.

Beuys» utopian vision of social transformation through individual creativity and self - determination was expressed through his art, but also through actions, lectures and sustained political activism.

Many doubt that utopian vision.

The euro has mixed roots — half of it was a utopian vision of European unity.

The utopian vision of an entrepreneur who wanted to do his part for income inequality looks shortsighted in the cold light of reality.

Today, Price's utopian vision of doing his part for income inequality by making sure all his employees had incomes that would make them happy — or so said the psychology research he read — is looking more than a little shortsighted in the cold light of reality.

That is the utopian vision that drives me.

As Imbruglia notes, the utopian vision of the Paraguayan missions was created by the Jesuits themselves: In widely circulated accounts, Jesuit authors described how once - «savage» Indios «became different men» through their conversion and joined a «perfect society» resembling the early Church.

Channelling the spirit of John Lennon's «Imagine», he describes a utopian vision of the future in which the «depth and warmth» of his own secular - humanist philosophy is universally embraced at the expense of God.

Our task is to forge an intelligent middle ground between the «dread menace» and the «Utopian vision.»

Either the Net is «a dread menace or it's a Utopian vision.»

In a community transformed by this utopian vision, power would be experienced as reciprocity in relation.

I too share Hitchens's dislike for the utopian vision of a globalized state, where national differences disappear and some sort of coerced political fealty to a collective Oceania erases regional, cultural, linguistic, and tribal idiosyncrasy.

Finally, I return again to the claim that the most significant contribution the church can make to the biopolitical task is to nourish a new consciousness, a utopian vision of a desirable human future arising from the inspiration of the Christian past.

The good future must be planned for in the light of some utopian vision sufficiently compelling to motivate men to devote themselves to its achievement.

I can only give expression to my own intuition that this possible emergence of a new consciousness should be given shape by a utopian vision of a planetary brotherhood at peace with nature and with God, united with all of life in the enjoyment of its potentialities.

Conservative preaching included such mundane topics as work, family life, and church programs; but they were treated in terms of utopian visions — getting rich, always being happy, finding the perfect church.7

His claim is that, without a utopian vision, liberalism perishes.

Leaving aside the theological proposal that utopianism is distorted eschatology, and idolatry to boot, we can subscribe to a perhaps more modest statement, to wit, that unless social ethics resolutely gives up any and all utopian visions, and not just the socialist one, it will again and again end up legitimating regimes and movements that perpetrate moral horrors.

Radicals are the permanently unsatisfied among us — nihilists of the Utopian vision, restless with the imperfections of humanity as we know it — who clamor for a future in which human beings will be different from what they are and the world transformed, for a world in which racism and evils like it will be purged from the species forever, and of course for the time when radicals like themselves will inherit the earth.

Like the Society of Jesus as a whole, he threw himself into the Great Reform, which didn't seek any particular goals so much as pursue a general, utopian vision, a hoped - for fusion of the Spirit of Christ with Liberation, with New Being, with the Eternal Now.

It may be, however, that only the implementation of a utopian vision, a holistic reason that unites subjectivity and objectivity, will make human life in the 21st century worth living

Utopian vision is necessary but can not be imposed without taking the contemporary social reality into account.

Progressives promote multiculturalism as a utopian vision of global cooperation.

The utopian vision leads to a paradox.

The fact is that neither group can tolerate the challenge to their utopian visions which the very existence of satire represents.