Sentences with phrase «with utopian visions»

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.

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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.

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.

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.

Robert Bellah is a social scientist who outwaits current fashions and lives with and by a vision even when it may be dismissed as utopian or misguided.

In the utopian vision, sensors embedded in all kinds of everyday objects will continuously communicate with the cloud.

Minority Report's visual identity owes a lot to Spielberg's vision of a future society that's at the same time dystopian and utopian, but also to the brilliant work of cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, who shot it with high - speed film.

That the film confronts these issues head - on, without the crutch of allegory, is rare in itself, but what makes Black Panther truly unique is that this «dystopian» present is juxtaposed with a (stunningly staged) utopian vision that is also wholly steeped in the black experience — in its history, iconography, and culture.

Artesius» background in financial services and education management organizations, combined with deeply rooted family ties in education, impacted his vision to create Utopian Academy for the Arts.

I do not feel his vision was utopian; it was a workable vision of community, not unlike many that have worked for white people throughout history, from the Puritans on... It also echoes some communal efforts of the abolition movement among others, and the Civil Rights movement, with Valentine, and Landers, in their speeches echoing Martin Luther King Jr. and the same debate over «gradual» or immediate progress.

Bodies and faces are reconfigured and mechanized with ironic flair in order to dismantle the utopian, technology - driven visions of modernity.

Will the High Line and the High Line extension preserve an overgrowth of wild flowers and urban history, with sculpture by Sarah Sze, or will it tower over Chelsea as one more dark, utopian vision?

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.

A room installation consisting of panels covering portions of the floor and walls and a three - dimensional recreation on the floor, the piece blends rigid geometric spaces with more sensual, patterned decoration, representing the family's attempts to reconcile the visual language of their native Morocco with the utopian modernist vision of Israel in the 1970s.

While the (smaller to mid-sized) white cube is closing, Smithson's amnesiac lobby is here to stay, where we perpetually forget the future and constantly evoke the vision of models - to - come with utopian fervour, without ever actually proposing new models.

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

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.

Out of this chaos came the modernists - a group of utopian designers with thrilling new visions of what the future could hold.

It evokes the type of illustration you would find on a paperback copy of A Brave New World, or something similarly utopian tinged with science fiction while referencing the myopic, single - minded vision of a Rubin's vase — a flatness that depends on a limited psychology, though not without depth.

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.

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.

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

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.

It's a 1,000 - horsepower, all - wheel drive hypercar with room for one hypothetical driver who sits nestled in the center of a carbon fiber cocoon, surrounded by a cockpit that looks straight out of some utopian vision for the future.