The core of the Inglehart thesis is that scarce resources lead to "materialist" values, while abundant resources are conducive to "post-materialist" values.
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Marx the materialist does not matter as he once did.
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Free will, to a materialist, is just a persistent illusion.
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"By his psychological type, he was a materialist," Mr. Ivanov said.
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And a lot of people would disagree with an incorrigible materialist like me.
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But Fumai does appear to offer a materialist explanation for her psychic wanderings.
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Perhaps not surprisingly, most technologists favor a materialist perspective based on the scientific paradigm.
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And if you're a pure materialist this is a good time to stop reading!
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Baptist has a fleet, persuasive take on the materialist underpinnings of the 'peculiar institution.
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Does the introduction of modern materialist cultures into indigenous communities inevitably destroy their essence?
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They are materialist consumerists whose political consciousness has been bought off by economic growth.
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"I am not my body," she roars at her husband, a Marxist materialist professor.
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Hit me up if you want to chat about the materialist conception of history.
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Af Klint wasn't a materialist and she was not interested in attaining the purely optical.
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His initial method for doing this was to make paintings personal in a materialist sense.
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When asked to explain any complex phenomenon, they instinctively reduce it to a materialist cause.
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His ephemeral work — anti-normality, anti-materialist, anti-classist — had assumed an exhortative, prophetical tone.
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She has no place in the materialist, hardware-shop world of Carl Andre and Donald Judd.
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I have no idea where to begin: repression's impossible because it's stupid and I'm a materialist.
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It's as posed as can be, but its anti-materialist heart is in the right place.
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This compensatory behavior might be taken simply as materialist consumption if not for its racialized connotations.
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This paganism is not materialist or atheistic; it allows for belief in spiritual and supernatural realities.
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All of a sudden it seemed like Conor McGregor—materialist of materialist, narcissist of narcissists—was becoming something bigger than himself, a spokesman, possibly even taking that rarefied step from ultra-talented loudmouth to historical figure, the path laid down by Muhammad Ali 50 years ago.
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Europe's secularisation, reflecting a break-up of traditional communities and more materialist attitudes, is familiar to sociologists.
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Herzog doesn't offer a materialist or ideological analysis of the transition from Soviet socialism to anarchic neoliberalism.
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Instead, his ripostes are every bit as anchored in a materialist view of existence as Rameau's nephew's.
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"It was also an ingenious way to articulate subjective experience in an increasingly materialist modern world." neuegalerie.org.
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It's a nice house by most standards, but a dump in the view of Rush's materialist children.
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Description: Materialist wants to be the central hub for manufacturers to sell interior design and construction products online.
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I do believe, however, that the materialist analysis of life can't account for our darkest or highest moments.
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Spike (Chris O'Shea), the tutor, is a strict, snarky materialist, impatient with what he perceives as her naïveté.
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Manzoni's work can be viewed as slight and Herculean, tragic and buoyant, mystical and materialist, minimal and baroque.
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Halaby defines her works as materialist — meaning that they are in dialogue with the objective world around her.
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Later, during the Enlightenment, clockwork mechanisms left their imprint on materialist arguments that man was only a sophisticated machine.
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Rather, as a materialist, I think there's nothing intrinsic about the goals and purposes we seek to achieve it.
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Neither the film nor the photographs come to clear conclusions, other than implicating us all in our materialist desires.
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Cultural critics who consider the Japanese unmoored in a materialist world look to the mountains for a roborant spiritual cure.
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Political scientists are apt to cite what are called "post-materialist" concerns to explain this leftward turn among millennial voters.
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Surely there is more to the brain than biology, she insists to her boyfriend, a hard-core materialist named Spike.
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Given the short lifespan of our bodies, if one is a materialist, information may seem to offer a salvific vessel.
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Generation Wealth is a new documentary chronicling the materialist and celebrity culture of our times, documenting the consequences of this obsession.
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For what Mikus did in her work was reject the materialist aesthetic artists such as Stella and Richard Serra were defining.
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Trump has a crassly materialist view of wealth, seeing it as embodied solely in physical goods rather than in trade relations.
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The fact of the matter is that the very best research done today by social scientists straddles the culturalist-materialist divide.
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In "The Silent Revolution in Reverse: Trump and the Xenophobic Authoritarian Populist Parties," Inglehart, Jon Miller and Logan Woods provide fresh insight on a subject to which Inglehart, at times writing with Pippa Norris of Harvard, has devoted much of his career: the ongoing tension between materialist and post-materialist values and the political consequences of that tension.
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Although aesthetically similar, in sharp ideological contrast, Kazimir Malevich and the Suprematists created anti-materialist, abstract art that originated from pure feeling.
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If possible I would prefer something by a fervent materialist about a wealthy clubman and a dark apachess—or something about love.
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Those of a materialist bent point to decades of slow growth in median incomes, which has bred disillusion and anger among working people.
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An orientation towards stuff over experiences, moreover, gets cast either as recklessly materialist or, as Tony perceives it, an impediment to enjoying life.
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The Labour Party is led by two Marxists: Mr Corbyn and John McDonnell, his shadow chancellor, who believe in the materialist interpretation of history.
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This dissonance was initially easy to dismiss, because I am a materialist, and Visions from India is rife with glorious and incredibly textured materials.
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I know the materialist explanation, but that does nothing to relieve my longing for them, or the impossible truth that they do not exist.
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Its manifestations included Theosophy, Spiritism, Swedenborgianism, Mesmerism, Martinism, and Kabbalism—elaborations of arcane rituals that had been cast aside in a secular, materialist age.
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The characters abide by the power-suit feminist look of the 80s and 90s, polished and lipsticked in all the materialist frills of the time.
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The artist has been particularly adept and conceptually agile in adapting his materialist (here in the Marxist sense) platform to the changing art world context.
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Where left and right were once divided along economic lines, she sees a new cleavage over "post-materialist values" such as cultural identity and the environment.
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As a form of liberalism, one way to be against "free speech" would be to reject the author's philosophical idealism in favor of historical materialist analysis.
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As time passes, letters transform from materialist to philosophical (Heise's father was a renowned philosopher), but that shift only complicates the relationship between the subjective and objective.
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What Marx did achieve, however, through his self-styled materialist thought, were the critical weapons for undermining capitalism's ideological claim to be the only game in town.
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Bodies were reduced to mere lumbering robots, and even the inner lives of our species became just one more consequence of natural selection in a materialist world.
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The government filings take a strictly materialist interpretation of "burdensome," arguing that Apple has the in-house expertise to develop the software without too much trouble or expense.
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To that end his team is happy to harness Maoist rhetoric, nostalgia for a simpler, less materialist China and the public's justifiable pride in the endurance of past hardships.
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The obvious drama of the collision lay in the contrasts between the two men: The celibate and the lecher, the ascetic and the billionaire, the mystic and the frank materialist.
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He's not a socialist, as Bernie once described him, because socialism is a materialist, man-made doctrine that puts human beings at the center of the universe rather than God.
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Moreover, given the rise of post-materialist values that put a premium on self-expression everywhere in advanced industrial democracies West, I wonder if this would have even been possible.
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Chiang's materialist universe is a secular place, in which God, if there is one, belongs to the phenomenal realm of scientific investigation and usually has no particular interest in humankind.
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Democrats, in turn, must figure out a way to extend their reach beyond the mega-population centers located mostly on the coasts, where cosmopolitan, globalist and post-materialist values dominate.
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The problem is that — in spite of the context she provides for how norms developed in the first place — Gelfand routinely ignores materialist explanations for the various phenomena she considers.
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"People likely to become scientists do so because they have a particular set of predilections and traits that encouraged them to think about things in a reductionist, materialist manner," Esvelt said.
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Pullman, who describes himself as a "thoroughgoing materialist," provides a counterpoint to authors like Lewis and his friend J. R. R. Tolkien, believers who infused their children's fiction with Christian themes.
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Corse is a materialist in that she is interested in the specific application of paint on canvas, yet she is also a phenomenologist, interested in the subjective experience her material affords.
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Birthed in New York, mainstream rap's materialist focus on the here and now has always set it apart from the tradition of black music running from gospel, through soul, to R&B.
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As an ardent materialist I am not aware of evidence to support the vitalist view that living things incorporate some ingredient which prevents them being explained in purely physical and chemical terms.
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Second, there was the example of a rival civilization, totalitarian Communism, in which the Apollonian model had been pushed to its materialist-utopian conclusion and discovered only a ruthless, inhuman dead end.
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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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Woodfox, who now described himself as a "dialectical materialist," summarized what he'd learned from the Party's list of some thirty required books, by writers like W.E.B. Du Bois, Michael Harrington, and Marcus Garvey.
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"The other harmful ideological error is found in those who find suspect the social engagement of others, seeing it as superficial, worldly, secular, materialist, communist or populist," Francis wrote in an apostolic exhortation.
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"Jacobin [is] making an argument about racial justice that's consistent with their materialist analysis and their view that the way to relieve injustice in general is to have a multiracial socialist movement," Leonard continues.
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A brisk materialist who thinks that "people are small next to physics" and interprets love as no more than a "Darwinist illusion", she shares a steely detachment with the female sleuths of Nordic noir.
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Mr Mishra associates liberalism with what he describes, in a related essay in the Guardian, as a "mechanistic and materialist way of conceiving human actions", partly a consequence of the primacy of free-market economics.
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Mosset's choice of monochrome did not come out of a need to reduce painting to its essence but rather, it was driven by a materialist search for the bare minimum that makes a painting possible.
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Leftist critics of the plutocratic drift of conservative ideology—which is to say, American politics these days—appreciate the materialist candor of McConnell's thug agenda in a way that the true-believing right never has.
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Given Dorfman's Latin American heritage, a critic might lazily excuse these conceits as features of magic realism, but "Darwin's Ghosts," with its materialist explanations and its prosaic writing, is hardly more than pedestrian science fiction.
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If his analytical use of paint and color moves Ringe's work in the direction of American Minimalism, he compounds that movement's materialist formalism, and ultimately refutes it, through the extra-visual ideas undergirding his process.
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Materialist thinkers like Hobbes—who argued that ghosts "are in no place; that is to say, that are no where; that is to say, that seeming to be somewhat, are nothing"—were met with fierce opposition.
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The triumphs of capitalist imperialism in the nineteenth century, and of economic globalization after the Cold War, fulfilled on a grand scale the Enlightenment dream of a worldwide materialist civilization knit together by rational self-interest.
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Twenty-five years of experience and 1000 orgasmic clients were enticing credentials but being something of a materialist and a skeptic about all things woo, I was already predisposed to take my line of inquiry elsewhere.
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The decades-long association of consumption and marketed goods with teenage girls, and the anti-materialist ideas of the counterculture that arose in the '60s, has created an overall negative association toward the things teenage girls consume.
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My favorite song after several months of obsessive listening is "Rich Sex", a forlorn ballad about fucking with your jewelry on that literally combines hip-hop's dual sex and money obsessions — the perfect recipe for materialist paradise!
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Throughout, Ms. Margolin pits a concentration-camp survivor who somehow remains almost naïvely hopeful against an amoral, greedy cynic with a fundamentally materialist view, and uses that contrast to explore issues of morality, trust, faith and guilt.
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Forced to become a shrewd materialist — in his interactions with adults he is almost always trying to make a deal or work an angle — he somehow clings to a sense of honor and a capacity for empathy.
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The pan-Latin phenomenon of reggaetón has been greeted warily by the musical old guard even as teenagers snap it up, lured by its materialist promise in a land of scarcity—and the appeal of plenty of perreo.
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In sections of the country undergoing sustained hardship — a result of automation, global trade and the residual effects of the 2007-9 recession — the march toward post-materialist values has, in Wilkinson's view, come to a dead halt.
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Made between the late fifties and mid-sixties, during the rise of the Hippie subculture and the growing use of mind-altering drugs, Mullican's paintings reject the formalist and materialist art being made and celebrated at the time.
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" And in a short text from 21977, with a title borrowed from Godard's 20003 movie, Two or Three Things I Know about Her, he explained his materialist "program" clearly: "[…] by refusing to give an image of itself, this [i.e.
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Wajcman argues that "technofeminism," which "fuses the visionary insights of feminism with a materialist analysis of the sexual politics of technology," is the way forward for women worried about the impact technology will have on their careers and lives.
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Although it was not apparent at the time, Ford, Tchelitchew and View magazine represented an aesthetic position under assault from a materialist perspective that rejected Symbolism, figuration, and Surrealism, in part because they were considered old-fashioned and European.
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And when Wittkower adds: "Bernini made the beholder an emotional participant" in the Catholic spectacle, consider how in our very different materialist culture, Serra's resolutely secular sculptures also demand our emotional — if not visceral — participation in his dense occupation of space.
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Marx's view of government, meanwhile, derived from his materialist view of history, whereby the organization of society (including government structures) reflects the economic system (which he called the mode of production) and the underlying social relations: the interaction between classes.
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A blunt and controversial figure, Pasolini's unrelenting critiques of materialist values, the bourgeoisie and its institutions, and the destruction of Italy's culture and traditions, were carried and circulated by media outlets, thereby earning him an international reputation as a leading public intellectual.
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The book consists of 20 tightly composed essays on a variety of topics (stars, atoms, truth, transcendence, death, certainty, origins and so on) with a single narrative thread running through them: the search for something deeper in the materialist worldview of the scientist.
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This geographical approach brought a materialist depth to the exhibition of Japanese cinema — so often overdetermined by cultural assumptions internationally and domestically — bringing the viewer to experience a range of human experiences through the diversity of film culture in a dynamic urban space.
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All of these wishes give a good view of the ping-ponging breadth not only of Wayne's psyche but of human nature: Who among us doesn't often wish for the most profound societal changes and the simplest materialist aims in the same breath?
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They are thinkers like George Santayana, a thoroughgoing materialist who scoffed at human progress to the point of indifference to human suffering yet loved Catholic traditions so much that he chose to live out the end of his days in the care of nuns.
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If he does have defining principles, they would seem to be recognizing complexity and nuance, applying deeper wisdom than simplistic materialist explanations, being absolutely truthful, refusing to lie, and speaking out — whatever the cost — against those pernicious ideas and efforts that will hurt others.
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To this ready-made satire of materialist avarice (you need stuff so you can get more stuff!) Paperclips marries a theme so perfect they could have been made for each other: a canonical thought experiment from the eccentric world of AI speculation known as the Paperclip Maximizer.
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A mystic who thought trees spoke to him, and a materialist prone to unorthodox mixtures of media on canvas, panel and paper, he was a leader of the Barbizon school, yet his name is far less familiar than those of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot or Jean-François Millet.
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But Trump was a different kind of figure: Not merely lukewarm or unorthodox, but a proud flouter of the entire Judeo-Christian code — a boastful adulterer and a habitual liar, a materialist and a sensualist, a greedy camel without even the slightest interest in squeezing through the needle's eye.
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It's a looping, strange argument in which he stitches together eloquent reflections on the hollowness of human existence, musings about electronic distraction, and concerns that an ethos of materialist progress has replaced an appreciation of metaphysical awe, all to end in a slashing justification of his own political resentments.
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It is tempting to place Scorsese and Bong in two distinct political categories: the liberal filmmaker, who asserts the primacy of the individual in all his fathomless complexity, versus the Marxian filmmaker, who grimly pronounces the triumph of systemic-materialist forces over individual notions of beauty and truth.
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This is a discussion about how to expand your mind: It's about how we think, how we learn, whether spiritual experiences can have materialist consequences, what makes us afraid of death, what our minds filter out in the world around us, why travel is good for us, and much more.
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One can, for example, study Go Hasegawa's elegant and rigorously materialist proposal, The Glass Tower, which draws on the development of curtain walls in the Chicago School to imagine a glass skyscraper that unites structure and façade in one material, alongside New York's MOS's arch and elegant & Another (Chicago Tribune Tower).
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Enchantment plays no small role in the lives of these characters, and their trials of faith — "I'm a materialist and I don't even believe in my own mother, but it's the truth, those people are cursed," a principal says of his pupils — mirror the state of the cathedral, a beatific failure.
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"Some political scientists have described green parties and environmental movements as post-materialist—they developed to represent people for whom material survival was no longer a dominant concern, such as middle class, university-educated people," Kimberly Morgan, a professor of political science at George Washington University, told Motherboard in an email.
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Bell's balancing of the terms "abstraction" and "materials" is significant — especially with regard to the works from 1978 on display here — by differentiating the absolute thingness of these paintings from the allusions to the observational world that you find even in something as densely materialist as Richard Serra's black oil-stick drawings.
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The power of Manzoni's art comes not simply from his dedication to essences, but also from the founts of associations that his unvarnished directness allows to percolate, and from the paradoxes that his efforts embody: his work can be viewed as slight and Herculean, tragic and buoyant, mystical and materialist, minimal and baroque.
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" One of the earliest and most successful of these endeavors, the Louisiana Science Education Act of 2008, carried echoes of a "wedge strategy" advocated by the Discovery Institute — a step-by-step program to "reverse the stifling dominance of the materialist worldview and to replace it with a science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions.
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"There's a really strong Christian aspect to anti-consumerism and simple living: that man is fallen, that we are too worldly, too materialist and need to return to some Eden to re-establish grace," notes Leigh Phillips, author of Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-Porn Addicts: A Defence Of Growth, Progress, Industry And Stuff, in an interview with VICE.
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The big picture: Doubling down on Marxism is a means to an end for the Party, but that does not also mean that Xi himself is not an ardent Marxist whose fervor is only increasing as he sees a world evolving and fracturing in ways that would stir the loins of any sentient Chinese Marxist historical materialist.
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"Marx's relevance today is chiefly in the analysis of the concentration of wealth in the hands of the property-owning classes, which the materialist conception of history takes as its starting point, and in the cultural and political implications which such a concentration of wealth implies and evidences," Gregory Claeys, author of the newly published Marx and Marxism, told me.
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A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan This is a discussion that is, on one level, about psychedelics, but on a deeper level about how to expand your mind: It's about how we think, how we learn, whether spiritual experiences can have materialist consequences, what makes us afraid of death, what our minds filter out in the world around us, why travel is good for us, and much more.
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The strain of occult thinking that runs through abstraction, beginning with Hilma Af Klint (255–228), arguably the first abstract artist, and continuing in figures as diverse as Piet Mondrian, Antonin Artaud, Gordon Onslow-Ford, Charmion Von Wiegand, Simon Gouveneur, Alfred Jensen, Forrest Bess, and Leo Kinney, goes against the mainstream's narrowly focused insistence that — historically speaking — abstract art progressed until it became a materialist enterprise that would cut its ties with its symbolist and mystical beginnings.
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The explanation for this, Wilkinson hypothesizes, is that the small aggregate movement is hiding an extreme divergence underneath: [T]he United States may be dividing into two increasingly polarized cultures: an increasingly secular-rational and self-expression oriented "post-materialist" culture concentrated in big cities and the academic archipelago, and a largely rural and exurban culture that has been tilting in the opposite direction, toward zero-sum survival values, while trying to hold the line on traditional values.
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Other Surrealist types in the show include Kahlo, Antonio M. Ruíz (nicknamed "El Corcito" for his resemblance to the then-popular matador Torero El Corcito), the Guatemalan artist Carlos Mérida, José Horna, Leonora Carrington (also a founding member of the Women's Liberation Movement in Mexico during the 1970s), and Alice Rahon, but Paalen was unique in founding his own counter-Surrealist art magazine, DYN, in which he tried to reconcile diverging materialist and occult tendencies in Surrealism with his philosophy of contingency.
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