There's a dialectic in the movie between fantasy and reality.
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I prefer the dialectic itchiness of her rosy kitsch mode.
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History teaches us about an inevitable dialectic: Power creates resistance.
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P's last album was called Hegelian Dialectic (The Book of Revelation).
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In the Professor's philosophy department, they might call it a dialectic.
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They can use your loved ones' favorite phrases and dialectic habits.
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So to keep its dialectic intact, I think, is super important.
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Few, however, discuss Christianity's love affair with the dialectic of punishment and redemption.
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She read Firestone's manifesto, The Dialectic of Sex, radical even by today's standards.
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Dialectic of Sex: The Case For Feminist Revolution and Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch.
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Their choice to defend was either a scholarly dialectic approach or schoolyard mud wrestling.
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But Jonathan pointed out that this dialectic can swing both ways: revolution begets counterrevolution.
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The organic/inorganic dialectic of the dystopian future has motivated countless paranoiac cyber-fantasies.
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This dialectic process is messy, but I hope and believe that it will continue.
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The final story, "Radical Feminists," captures the book's haunting dialectic of confinement and freedom.
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The next phase of the dialectic is surely the synthesis of Marvel and Marx.
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You emphasize that Human Story 3 is a dialectic, neither fully optimistic nor pessimistic.
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And there will be errors on all sides: that's in the nature of the dialectic.
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That's how change works—it's the dialectic of an environment over long periods of time.
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I found a new geometry, one that is less dialectic and more tender and symbiotic.
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Everything is a polarity, everything is, you know, a dialectic, everything's about pointing out differences.
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Hence, "Machinist": acoustic meets electric, flesh meets metal, the literal articulation of the album's dialectic.
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While hardly averse to ornament, he envisioned each structure as a dialectic of utility and beauty.
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But Bonnefoi incorporated tarlatan's properties into his painting dialectic in a very different way from his predecessors.
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If Trump hadn't won the lottery to represent one side of this dialectic, someone else would have.
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And, through the naming of the hashtags themselves, they allow Black Twitter users to celebrate a community dialectic.
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Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectic behavioral therapy (DBT) have also shown to be promising for this diagnosis.
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"I went out of the canvas to have an open dialectic space," he told Flash Art in 2007.
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"The Haunting" is classic activist theater — the haphazard acting is typical of the genre — that prefers didacticism to dialectic.
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Both "The Dialectic of Sex" by Shulamith Firestone and "Sisterhood is Powerful," Robin Morgan's ambitious anthology, appeared in 1970.
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It is the dialectic of argument and counterargument through which critical consensus is born, and destroyed, and born again.
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The songs that resulted are animated less by a dialectic than the surprisingly rich common ground between theoretically distant sensibilities.
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The great feminist philosopher Shulamith Firestone proposed a "smile boycott" in The Dialectic of Sex, and it's not over yet.
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One of the delights of this knowingly preposterous story is the dialectic it constructs between the real and the fantastic.
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He is close to his extended family and said they are supportive of his venture into the dialectic of footwear.
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Tweeting requires no coalition-building, no across-the-aisle negotiating, no dialectic with citizens about ideas, social mores or governing policies.
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It's the 'praxis' part of Marx's dialectic, where communities are juxtaposed and have the opportunity to interact, merge, become something else.
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His third version of the Vatican II story, the one he considers to be closest to the truth, presents a dialectic.
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As they made their way toward each other, with the help of smart editing and inspired camerawork, you felt a dialectic crackle.
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For Marx, this dialectic is neatly summed up by Nathaniel Hawthorne's encounter with industrial modernity on the morning of July 27, 1844.
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More than any other aspect of this show, this dialectic reveals Fish to be more than a painter of pleasant still lifes.
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"It Comes at Night," a rigorous and astute film written and directed by Trey Edward Shults, plays the outside-in dialectic beautifully.
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Undergirding this genre is an implicit dialectic: Technology has changed us, robbed us of something important, and we must get it back.
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I n 1970, in "The Dialectic of Sex," twenty-five-year-old Shulamith Firestone argued for a seizure of the means of reproduction.
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The Frankfurt strategy deconstructs societies through attacks on culture by imposing a dialectic that forces unresolvable contradictions under the rubric of critical theory.
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There is no way to condense two centuries' worth of dialectic between black and white musicians into 350 pages without making egregious omissions.
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I speculate that the Trump-Kim dialectic is the final stage, in which history simultaneously realizes and annihilates itself, and us with it.
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Lekman's wit, instincts for self-mockery, and the general psychological implications of the dialectic described above draw a charming character with unusual vividness.
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Like an X-ray, the works cut through Whitney's carefully calibrated color schemes to the dialectic of structure and improvisation that lies beneath.
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This figure is articulated by the dialectic play between the mediums of painting and metalwork, play that makes it both absurd and charming.
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If there are twin leitmotifs exist in 2016, they are social media voyeurism and electronic surveillance—their dialectic being the overlapping paranoia they produce.
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Paperwork and the Will of Capital displays the dialectic of man's political power, that it is at once attractive and empty, necessary and futile.
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It found dark laughs in the dialectic of striver psychology, as the Evans family flips between two equally extreme reactions to racism and poverty.
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One of Smithson's favorite words was ''dialectic,'' meaning he desired that things exist in productive tension with other things, thereby producing a ''dialectical situation.
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On a second viewing, and with less of a crowd crush, the sculptures' balletic relationship with, and dialectic struggle against, each other became more apparent.
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The dialectic is not a puppet-master pulling the strings of history, but a process involving contradictions within social and economic forces playing themselves out.
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Positing a dialectic between girly vocalist and tough band would be too facile, reliant on a spuriously gendered equivalence between guitar noise and macho defiance.
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"It was an identity shaped largely by three interwoven concerns that involved polarities and necessarily implicated the dialectic between binary structures," goes a sample passage.
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The works of painters Joan Mitchell and Jean-Paul Riopelle foster a dialectic between pure gestural abstraction and lyrical suggestions of the grandeur of nature.
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As shapes, they manage to maintain their presence against the pull of the painting's convincing artifice, creating a vigorous dialectic between surface and pictorial depth.
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Will we continue to have blackness and whiteness locked in this dialectic, and will we continue imagining our being existing somewhere between these two poles?
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Though he knows it is expedient to talk piously about dialogue and dialectic, in reality everything is experienced in terms of self-promotion and rivalry.
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That claim, based on the hundreds of articles that have been written on both sides, is a complicated argument alive with multiple values in dialectic tension.
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Welcome to the world of "Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus," where carnage and camp coexist — if not exactly in peace, then in a constructive dialectic.
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The singer was treated at the mental health center for a month, and was undergoing dialectic behavior therapy (DBT), which she previously said has changed her life.
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Shulamith Firestone, author of the 1970 classic The Dialectic of Sex, agreed with Freud on at least one thing: the centrality of sexuality to our society's problems.
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Millett's book, readers encountered Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex, Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch, Toni Cade's anthology The Black Woman, and Robin Morgan's anthology Sisterhood is Powerful.
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The answer to both turns out to be a qualified yes, and the ways in which Mr. Davis comes to these conclusions have a certain dialectic ingenuity.
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In a nutshell — in a brightly colored, economy-size value pack — "Sausage Party" traces the dialectic of enlightenment in the life of a skeptical sausage named Frank.
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The defining aspect of dialectic thinking is that things in life have mutual dependence, and two sides of an apparent contradiction reveal a greater harmony and truth.
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These singular plots cohere into a broader dialectic, as the show traces the shift from midwife-assisted home birth toward modern hospital science, with gains and losses.
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Now I'm not saying that's the case but that was sort of the dialectic going on" White House spokesman denies they will pull Shelton's nomination: "That's absolutely false.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads DUBLIN — "Sex class is so deep as to be invisible," writes Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex, first published in 83.
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For artists, fans' online gift cultures raise dialectic tensions between participatory desires for communication and connection and personal, economic, and artistic desires to control their work and image.
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But the subsequent impulse to fortify security at LGBTQ bars and events also serves to underscore patrons' marginalization—stressing the dialectic between pride and an instinct for safety.
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I suggest that the Great Man Theory, though already battered by Marxism and feminism, isn't likely to survive the historical dialectic between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un.
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The Black Panther dialectic, the MTV News experiment, Vibe and The Source in their prime: these show what's possible when critics of color define the terms of the debate.
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The Woody Allen figure in a Woody Allen movie is almost always in transit from one woman to another, impelled by a dialectic of enchantment, disappointment and reawakened desire.
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But like all Fischli/Weiss works, it functions slyly on several levels, and it prefigured much of the work to come later, often based on a kind of sprung dialectic.
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Herzen matters today because he thought about the cruel dialectic between hope and history in politics and because he struggled to find Russia its own way into the 20th century.
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This "master-slave dialectic" is the motor of human history, and human history comes to an end when there are no more masters or slaves, and all are recognized equally.
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John Fichthorn, a hedge fund manager at Dialectic Capital Management, says the new regulations are dooming the market for new securitizations because top buyers have been driven out of it.
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Pamuk's usual themes are on display: the East-West dialectic, the tensions between modernity and tradition, the relationship between secular and sacred, with Istanbul as both a backdrop and muse.
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Besides being a richly rewarding visual feast, the show fosters a dialectic between pure gestural abstraction (these paintings are usually labeled "Untitled") and lyrical suggestions of the grandeur of nature.
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The dialectic of loyalty and betrayal — within families, local communities, political movements, subcultures and the nation itself — is his great theme, and Masino Buscetta supplies him an aptly contradictory hero.
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However, the title seems a little forced in setting up an easy dialectic between darkness and light, oppression and democracy, inequality and progress, implying that one necessarily follows the other.
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But the biggest unifier by far is Broadnax's weekly community-centric viewing tags — dialectic hashtags intended for black fans to use to gather together and discuss their favorite TV shows.
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The Dialectic will take place at five distinctive venues throughout the city: the Sowden House, LACE, Zebulon, Ford Theatres, and LA Dance Project, with each night's program tailored to the site.
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Such zero-sum thinking is fine for a class in dialectic materialism in Pyongyang, but not on Wall Street, or the Chamber of Commerce, or anywhere else within a free market.
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But now it seemed that the implied dialectic was a sham, and that in fact the two sides were locked in a sterile opposition from which no consensus would ever emerge.
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THE OPTIMISM OF ART feeds off the pessimism of ecocide — this is the dialectic that sits at the heart of projects like the Future Library and their banks of sacred objects.
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But if the hosts of FiyaStarter can't put the genie back in the bottle and remove their stylized dialectic from common usage, then surely the impact of the discussion works both ways.
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Dialectic Capital co-founder John Fichthorn called Tesla's better-than-expected earnings on Wednesday a "blip," saying the results were nothing more than pressure from Wall Street to produce a profitable quarter.
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In their 1944 book Dialectic of Enlightenment, Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno argue that basically all human society is based on a "mythic" fear of the natural forces which structure our environment.
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The Black Panther dialectic, the MTV News experiment, Vibe, and The Source in their prime: these conversations and platforms show what's possible when critics of color define the terms of the debate.
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At the start of Olio, Jess presents two poems that establish a kind of dialectic for thinking about black performers of this era and the conditions under which they created their music.
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As for Marxism, Kristol's unnamed friend seems to know some jargon from Hegel ("the dialectic" and "synthesis") and Lenin ("infantile disorder") but no real sense of how a materialist reading of history works.
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"We've got to learn to sleep with people because we want them," one woman said in a consciousness-raising session transcribed by the author of "The Dialectic of Sex," Shulamith Firestone, in 1968.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream can be conveyed as a light, rollicking romp in the woods for one theater troupe or a dark dialectic on the perils of love, lust, and marriage for another.
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"Spray" is a sonic dialectic, first taught and disorienting, then slow and woozy, before Suzuki comes in around the 6:30 mark and somehow turns the thing into a prom song on Mars.
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" The dialectic continued even into the encores, with the tenacious closeness and harsh recriminations of "One" followed by the anthemic solace and wordless arena chant of "Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way.
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She also wanted to illustrate a dialectic of vulnerability: women's bodies, which are often seen as more vulnerable than men's, can have powerful agency when they choose to physically expose themselves to potential harm.
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It's something that Americans don't really want to talk about, and if they do, they sort of just default to a kind of binary one and zero dialectic: good, bad; red state, blue state.
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The results of this investigation leave me with a final image, a scene which Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer visited in their seminal Dialectic of Enlightenment, which ushered in a generation of postwar philosophical pessimism.
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The discussions — building on the idea of "consciousness raising" — led to a number of important feminist texts, including Anne Koedt's "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm" (1970) and Shulamith Firestone's "The Dialectic of Sex" (1970).
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The texts in the anthology build up a cumulative dialectic against the Western rhetoric about Eastern Europe and break down the historical divide between the West and the East as defined by Cold-War politics.
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The figures in Jeff Sonhouse's paintings show us what African Americans, Caribbean people, and others from the African diaspora might be when our imagination is not so yoked to the oppression-degradation/heroic transcendence dialectic.
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In 1949, the foundational intellectual of the movement, Simone de Beauvoir (to whom Firestone dedicated her Dialectic), wrote: Assuredly there are certain forms of the sexual adventure which will be lost in the world of tomorrow.
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Rather than view these dislocations as a failure of "progressive" politics, or a populist lurch to the "right," he sees this as the final phase of a broader dialectic stretching back to the Renaissance and beyond.
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The piece, titled "Dialectic of Light and Dark," became more engaging when Kosoko began to walk and run around the stage area, shedding gold ribbons everywhere, marking it as his own, creating his own religious practice.
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Being made a reader accomplice, being invited to play one of Cortázar's games, "not a trivial game that has no meaning" but rather "a dialectic, an exchange," makes other books look pallid and rude by comparison.
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Titled "Holographic Universes and the Dialectic of Simulacral Non-Events," and essentially full of crap start to finish, the piece was initially taken seriously, not least because the publication in question isn't really known for parody.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Tasked with forging artistic connections between France and Southern California, FLAX (France Los Angeles Exchange) Foundation will launch one of its most ambitious projects to date, The Dialectic of the Stars.
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And plenty of Broadnax's followers also pointed out that the #DemThrones hashtag's use of "Dem" and "Dat" was part of a general dialectic: This is like arguing over the first to make you and all a contraction.
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Although there is an ending to the work (which I won't reveal), there is no resolution: the documentary characterizes a condition that the avant-garde Japanese artist Taro Okamoto called Taikyokushugi, or a dialectic that refuses synthesis.
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The main text of the "dark prism" view of the Enlightenment is Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment, first published in 1944 as both men — Germans with Jewish heritage — were forced to reckon with Nazism.
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Among the most concrete models Lewis cites is Firestone's Dialectic, which imagined communist "households" of "ten or so consenting adults" who would share domestic labor and the care of their biological children or children they adopted together.
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There's something about the dialectic, the discussion, the debates with someone you respect whose opinion is valuable, so rather than thinking, 'You handle this, I'll handle that' and partitioning it, it's more of a [back and forth].
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" The book performs a dazzling dialectic play of oppositions: light and shadow, the visible and the invisible, dream and reality, and—to quote "earth shadow," the first suite in Dark Church—"the // now / —and // the not- / now.
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In her foundational 1970 manifesto The Dialectic of Sex, she identifies the biological family as the basis for women's oppression because it establishes women as an underclass by forcing them to bear the brunt of gestational labor.
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Harris places Malcolm X in the center of the triptych, "War Dialectic" (210), from the Collage and Conflict series, splicing in images of Mt. Rushmore, along with soldiers positioned behind sand bags, their rifles aimed at unknown targets.
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Editor's Note: It was brought to our attention that the author made some factual errors concerning the identification of the writers of the book Dialectic of Enlightenment and the nature and publication date of Derrida's book On Touching.
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Vitale demonstrates that adult games of aggression don't deviate very much from this juvenile script: we like to toy with our prey; impress upon the antagonist our power and our irresistible control, enjoying our part in that dialectic.
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In the Dialectic, Firestone briefly acknowledges that the existence of "an instinct for pregnancy" would pose a problem for her project—but then she argues that, once we "sloughed off cultural superstructures," we would discover no such innate drive.
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This is the largest-scale example in the planet's history of the scientific method in operation, the continuing dialectic between hypothesis and skepticism that arrived eventually at a strong consensus about the most critical aspects of our planet's maintenance.
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The hosts asserted that Tech Insider's statements about the origins of the #DemThrones hashtag were wrong, and that both the direct hashtag and the "Dem" and "Dat" usage had come from a dialectic originally coined on FiyaStarter by the trio.
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Prior research has shown that RFID tags could be used to reliably track inputs like when a person touched a tagged object, whether the object was touching conductive or dialectic materials, and whether or not the tagged object was in motion.
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The radical feminist Shulamith Firestone viewed it as the root of all gendered oppression, imagining in her 1970 book The Dialectic of Sex a world of test-tube babies and (less well-remembered) chosen families, entered and dissolved at will.
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But it is precisely the dialectic between repression and transgression that allowed Nazi ideology to flourish in certain corners of the internet: permitting the Twitter trolls of the alt-right to morph, slowly, into flesh-and-blood perpetrators of racial violence.
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" When it came to style, they took "pleasure in dispute, dialectic, dazzle," prized "freelance dash, peacock strut, daring hypothesis, knockabout synthesis," and "celebrated the idea of the intellectual as antispecialist, or as a writer whose specialty was the lack of a specialty.
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Then there are the words of the year that aren't even words at all: While the eggplant emoji made the American Dialectic Society's top-of-list last year, we're still waiting to find out which one will beat out the rest in 2016.
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It's a clear-headed dialectic on getting old and getting on with it and I hoped, in choosing the audiobook, to hear Le Guin on the other side, as if to find the text preserved in the amber of her own voice.
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As a self-conscious, awkward kid who wanted only to be sophisticated, I didn't yet grasp the complex, subversive dialectic of words and music in those numbers, or realize that they were as full of feeling as anything by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
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If one of the film's threads is the existential conundrum that most directly informs Dickinson's poetry — what it is like to live from moment to moment with the knowledge of eternity — another is the dialectic of freedom and authority that defined her life.
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The hashtags generally incorporate #Dem and #Dat as part of their names — partly a reappropriation and celebration of black dialectic, and partly an ironic, satirized throwback to the clunky, racist way "black" dialect has been stylized in text by white writers over many generations.
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Typically, if you want to do more than simply record a conversation, you'll need an internet connection because much of the AI involved in analyzing and transcribing, say, a riveting lecture about Hegelian dialectic, tends to happen on a faraway server, rather than on your smartphone.
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We are thus seeing the development of a malign dialectic: the more populists seize control of the political system the more liberals entrench themselves in their chosen caves, and the more the liberals entrench themselves (often deliberately embracing unpopular causes) the more furious the populists get.
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These experiences of misogyny radicalized her, a stance that was reinforced by literature from the women's movement that was reaching the West Coast — Valerie Solanas's "SCUM Manifesto" (1967), Kate Millet's "Sexual Politics" (1970) and Shulamith Firestone's "The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution" (1970).
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But the dialectic between these two classes of patrons is soon transcended by the singular peace that accompanies creaking across a wooden floor in one's socks, slotting into ground-level seating, and enjoying a nip of nongju, a creamy rice liquor, ladled from a giant ceramic bowl.
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And it just so happens that a genuine left-wing Jeffersonian, Bernie Sanders, is currently near the top of the Democratic field, contending with Joe Biden, the embodiment of the Hamiltonian-Wilsonian elite dialectic despite his blue-collar lingo, in an increasingly spirited foreign policy debate.
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Whether or not he raised popular music to the level of literature — a meaningless claim lazy boomers have been pushing on the younger generation for years — he certainly assumed the role of the Romantic author-genius in a popular context and made the resulting dialectic thrilling as hell.
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But the point is that during the first act, you're not allowed to ponder, as you're confronted with a dialectic that could happen only in musicals: provincial conservatives (that's Charlie and his employees) meet their antithesis, a troupe of flamboyant drag queens (that's Lola and her backup girls, the Angels).
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In Graphic Women: Life Narrative & Contemporary Comics (2010), Hilary L. Chute argues that comics and graphic novels are a particularly fruitful medium as an autobiographical model due to its dialectic visual-verbal form, which, by its very design, can be a powerful tool for self-representation and (re)imagining trauma.
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The tropes set up here continue throughout the course of the performance: black and white, male and female depicted as opposites that infer and insist on the other — the definition of a dialectic relation, in which the master is only a master because of, and in tandem with, the existence of the slave.
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So the dynamic between him and Kristen is less "skeptic versus believer" and more of a serious dialectic on what evil even is: Is it scarier to imagine it as the product of minds twisted in horrible directions or as an outside force that visits itself upon us and makes us do its bidding?
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LIMINALITY "Liminal" is a joke-word now, and yeah, it's overused, and yeah, it's about as strung-out as "dialectic" for the academia-lite that so much online language is leaning on, but it's where we live, not just "in between" or "both" but always on the edge (and still taking up too much space).
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Yet, in his writing about art, he shows himself part of the great tradition of poet/critics when he analyzes the objectivist photographs of Bernd and Hilla Becher and the non-narrative figurative paintings of Neo Rauch in tandem through "a social dialectic of aesthetic regions," something that no conventional art critic would have dared.
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It is one thing for German politicians to run around Europe with diktats to small countries desperate for EU membership and money, but it is quite another to use the same dialectic with a veto wielding UN Security Council member, an authentic and autonomous nuclear power, the world's fifth-largest economy and by far Germany's largest European trade partner.
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Her work encompasses such forms as net art installation, feature-length films, and art actions, in which she explores and rethinks the middle ground between technology and humanity in the era of globalization, repeatedly engaging in dialectic on social and political issues such as gender and body politics, ethnic and cultural diversity, history, and the environment.
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Cruz's performance, "How to Order a Chocolate Cake," draws inspiration from the last writings of the Spanish poet Garcia Lorca; Thomson's "Chimera" takes up and examines the power dynamics of race, gender, and appropriation in US culture; and Kosoko's "the dialectic of light and dark" queers theatrical conventions to underline how gender and race are negotiated and performed.
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So it goes both ways, but the point is that if there's a real dialectic there you have a chance to build because let's face it, that's a brave role, and you're asking her to do things that are so blunt and outwardly provocative that if she's not doing it for the right reasons, and you're not chasing the same things, she's vulnerable.
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You read somebody like Harold Bloom, the Anxiety of Influence, and she may emphasize it more than one might think, but the idea that you're part of an inheritance, and a kind of dialectic of inheritance of that, Shakespeare, is sort of both emulated and knocked out by Milton, and then Milton and Keats, or something, so that there is this whole … What shall I say?
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A Marxist, but of the most unorthodox variety, Kojève taught that there was direction and meaning in history and that the key to understanding both of these lay in an appreciation of Hegel, whose vision of the dialectic imagined a state of eventual universality, the highest form of human consciousness, in which individual finite selves would be tied together in a spiritual recognition of each other.
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He understood the deep, contradictory patterns of our history, and articulated, with a passion and clarity that few others have matched, the psychological dimensions of racial conflict: the suppression of black humanity under slavery and Jim Crow and the insistence on it in African-American politics and art; the dialectic of guilt and rage, forgiveness and denial that distorts relations between black and white citizens in the North as well as the South; the lengths that white people will go to wash themselves clean of their complicity in oppression.
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It's a track that asks what kind of stuff legends are made of and retraces American history: From boats that we came on to lights with our name onThrough hard times, we spark minds to keep the flame onI write hard rhymes like I'm running out of timeTruthfully, my stopwatch is one with the divineCenturies from now, they'll play my freestyleAnd say, this is the brilliance of a black American child In his "Who Tells Your Story," Common argues that you tell your story, as much as anyone else — that it's a dialectic narrative, not a monologue, and that we, now, are as much a part of the telling as ever.
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