Sentences with phrase «way cultural forces»

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What you might not know about the intangible cultural force that forever changed the way we live, work, play and communicate.

In their view, books stressing contingency «offer a way forward, beyond the «old political history» and the new «social and cultural history» by a reunion of process and event,» In other words, what Individual people did — perhaps especially people who filled leading public posts — may be as genuinely significant as the ordinary forces acting upon ordinary people.

If I was alone on a desert island with nothing but the Bible, and no research tools to help me understand the background and history of who Jesus was and what He taught, and the cultural and theological forces He was facing, I doubt I ever would have understood Him in the way that Wright presents here.

It's spawned parodies, online theories and even a Miley Cyrus mash - up on its way to becoming a full - fledged pop cultural force.

Cultural war is a two way street, and you are far to accustomed to being able to force your will on others.

Beginning with Genesis 1:1, I plan on taking you verse by verse through the Bible to explain it from a historical - cultural perspective, and in a way that exposes how religion has forced Scripture to become its errand boy, when in reality, Scripture should be leading us away from religion and into a deeper and more intimate relationship with God.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

She is trying to find a way to break through the cultural forces that sustain the medical model and re-claim normal birth for normal women.

Continued EU membership can help address both economic uncertainty and cultural anxiety — widespread fears that certain values and ways of life are threatened by the forces of transnational markets.

A member of the generation whose education was truncated by the Cultural Revolution, he spent his teens doing forced labor in the countryside instead of attending school; he learned by himself from whatever books came his way.

With environmental and cultural forces threatening their subsistence way of life, Ray holds onto the hope that his grandsons will one day pass on the traditional knowledge to their children.

The coercive cultural policy of his time forced much of Chinese art into a «semi-underground» state, but in a way, the burning desire for expression in severely limited conditions served as catalyst for the artist, bringing out numerous diverse and vibrant creations.

Second Sight will include a range of works by contemporary artists that point to ways of knowing beyond visual observation and consider the invisible societal, political, and cultural forces that govern our own frameworks of experience.

Of my writings published online on this blog and The Huffington Post since last April 2010, the ones that have in any small way gone viral, very relatively speaking, were those in which I wrote fast enough about current hot news items or ones relating or engaging with artworld celebrities: as one example, «My Whole Street is A Mosque,» written within 24 hours of the news cycle surrounding the proposal for a Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero, was picked up by various web aggregators; «Looking for Art to Love, MoMA: A Tale of Two Egos» also did very well because of my speculation about how or whether Marina Abramovic peed during her performance «The Artist is Present» at MoMA, a subject of much prurient curiosity (interesting speculation was illustrated online at New York Magazine and resolution of the mystery came in the Wall Street Journal's blog, «Speakeasy»); «Anselm Kiefer@Larry Gagosian: Last Century in Berlin,» where I tucked a critical response to Kiefer's recent show into a bit of reporting about how Gagosian Gallery was using the NYPD as its private police force, also created a spike on my Google analytics; more recently I could perceive a noticeable uptick in my readership as well as in the number and enthusiasm of my Facebook friends» comments for «Should we trust anyone under 30?

Inspired partly by the French critical theorist Roland Barthes, who viewed mass cultural images as signs freighted with latent meaning to be deciphered, she first gained attention for a series of artworks starkly displaying newspaper snippets (headlines, photographs), forcing viewers to examine the way they responded to media's authoritative voice.

In effect, the paintings function as a way to activate and pry open different pictorial, cultural, and historical forces in order to experience them yet again in unique ways.

What unites them is a shared view of Africa, less as a place than as a concept, a cultural force — one that runs through the world the way a gulf stream runs through an ocean, part of the whole, but with its own tides and temperatures.

They ultimately parted ways with the Contemporary Arts Association of Houston - now the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston - but not before mounting major exhibitions and enabling Jermayne MacAgy, perhaps the first professionally trained art historian in the city, to serve as its director and a cultural force at large.

For «Human Traffic», Rina Banerjee has specifically produced a series of artworks (sculptures, wooden panels, large format drawings) illustrating her reflections on the theme of movement, which she interprets in a positive (journeys that generate a great cultural diversity and richness) as well as a more abrupt way, with the forced physical circulation of bodies due to war, terrorism and poverty, thereby implicating migrations of every kind.

She is interested in ways the digital vernacular affects current and future modes of production, shifts in socio - economic concerns, cultural consumption / participation, and the inevitable environmental consequences of these forces.

This can create fights in our communities as we are forced to put unambiguous contemporary boundaries around our lands and waters that do not (and can not) represent the complex cultural ways that we can look after, inherit and occupy country.