Sentences with phrase «utopian visions of»

Utopian visions of avoiding climate «tipping points» in the next decade are completely unrealistic.

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.

The site the artist chose is significant with regard to his field research; different themes and areas of interest in Zink Yi's work intersect in the portrait of Havana: the utopian visions of social revolutionaries, the stark reality of socialism, the cults and rites of the Afro - Cuban population.

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.

Although biomorphic forms had appeared in both painting and sculpture by 1913, it was only after the destruction of the utopian visions of Futurism, Cubism and Constructivism, by Stalinism, the Great Depression and Nazism, that Science was superceded by Nature as the prime inspiration for painters and sculptors alike.

These sculptures are inspired by Taut's utopian visions of an «Alpine Architecture», devised just before the end of the First World War and the collapse of the German empire.

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

Keith Coventry is best known for his paintings of council estates, paintings that are an indictment of the utopian visions of the early twentieth century artist, Malevich.

Immediately impressive, the site - specific work occupies the vast 1640 square metre industrial space of the Turbine Hall and references the utopian visions of early 20th century modernity from a post-modern perspective.

Paglen presents new sculptures, photographs and works on paper, offering «multiple takes on the history of spaceflight, from the utopian visions of late 19th Century Russian «Cosmists,» to present - day military and surveillance apparatuses.»

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

In 1975 there appeared in Germany a book entitled: The Berlin Ecumenical Manifesto, on the Utopian Vision of the World Council of Churches, edited by Walter Kunneth and Peter Beyerhaus.34 The book attacked not only the World Council of Churches but also the Lutheran World Federation, World Student Christian Federation, certain Roman Catholic groups, the German Evangelical Kirchentag, Taize, and to some extent even Lausanne.35 According to H. Berkof, the common thread through all the articles in the book was the desire to demonstrate that the World Council of Churches no longer sought to proclaim the Gospel throughout the world, but strove rather for a purely horizontal, social and political, humanization and unification of mankind by means of religious pluralism and syncretism.

, The Berlin Ecumenical Manifesto on the Utopian Vision of the World Council of Churches, Liebnzeller Mission Press, 1975.

Progressives promote multiculturalism as a utopian vision of global cooperation.

Between the cuts to New York City's universal meal program and last year's Congressional failure to adequately fund the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act, it's clear that we're a very long way away from school food expert Janet Poppendieck's utopian vision of school meals «free for all.»

In this case, idealism is not only evident in the belief that «good» values must guide politics, but also in the utopian vision of the level at which they are to be deployed.

These deliberate imperfections make it more Star Wars than Gene Roddenberry's utopian vision of 22nd century life.

These works may employ disorienting illusions of depth and flatness, intensely affecting color, or synesthetic auditory and haptic stimuli to introduce new kinds of sensory experience that in some cases suggest a utopian vision of the future and in others embody critical or ambivalent attitudes towards contemporaneous reality — social, political, and technological.

These iconic compositions of complex, skewed angles and radiant, tonal color allude to the multiple narratives coursing through the history of modernist painting, from the utopian vision of Russian Constructivism to the hallucinatory images of Op Art.

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

Her charming large works on paper present idyllic images of interracial couples surrounded by birds in a utopian vision of a future where we «can all just get along».

But everything about the previous sentence — I can not see this as other than a utopian vision of the power of love — speaks to the possibilities invoked by Crosby's work, through which she may be laying the foundational conditions for understanding.

«A surreal tale of a glass ball lost in a magical world that both celebrates the utopian vision of the city and the role of glass within architecture and urban environments.»

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.

To manifest a utopian vision of acceptance and empowerment.

A series of collage paintings, Machine Music, present a utopian vision of a world in which heavy artillery has been converted into instruments of «sonic warfare», with soldiers fighting in the field with musical instruments as their weapons.

It «creatively brings together cutting - edge technology, a utopian vision of society and playful expressions of love,» according to BAMPFA's director, Larry Rinder.

In Latin America, and particularly in the urban centers of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Venezuela, a geometric aesthetic was closely linked to postwar projects of national modernization and a utopian vision of rationalism, internationalism, and social progress.

Born in 1982, de Andrade belongs to the generation that challenged the utopian vision of Tropicalismo modernism.

His distinctive melding of these influences coalesces into a folk - driven, utopian vision of the mythic American West and of lush gardens as sites of contemplation, loss, and possible redemption.

Here is a bucolic, utopian vision of the future, a brave new suburban world with a hydrogen powered car in every garage and an organic chicken in every pot.

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Is this vision utopian, or the wave of the future?

My father himself, whom I loved dearly, thought much of my vision might be utopian.

The eschatological vision, which expected God to bring in that radically other and better world, has been reduced to myth; utopian thinking, which expected the new age as the outcome of human effort, has come to be regarded as illusion.

With a vision typical of Utopian «theologians» whose only real faith is in this - worldly peace and happiness, Noddings proposes that we give women power, and let women, and the femininity in men, rule.

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.

Invoking visions of «spaceship earth» or «global village» or United Nations or World Council of Churches, or the oikoumene of ecumenism sets oneself up to be marked as naïve, silly or utopian.

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

Presumably feminist theorists would agree that narrative can be used not only to open up the past and connect it with the present, but to sketch a vision of the future: here, narrative acquires a potentially utopian function.

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.

If one adopts a nihilistic perspective from the very start, this will avert the kind of disappointment that utopians experience when their visions inevitably fail to become fully actual in history.

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