And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood.
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In its strongest form, pluralism is a theory of selfhood.
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Even so, I consider speaking a secondary function of my selfhood.
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The Buddhist notion of anatta, or non-selfhood, is biologically true.
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Even Morisot's semi-nudes, painted from models, radiate selfhood, defying objectification.
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There are many ways to reach the truth of non-selfhood.
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Throughout Women in Public, the threat lingers that selfhood might be objectified.
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A relationship is not the foundation of selfhood, but only a piece.
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Now, we have to live with many technologies that challenge democracy and selfhood.
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This ability to endure through change is the miracle and mystery of selfhood.
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Living freely, you seem to suggest, means escaping from the prison of selfhood.
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I am invested in exploring and questioning themes of selfhood, diaspora, and belonging.
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It's terrifying to think that we are all vulnerable to a lapse in selfhood.
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There had never been enough of them to allow this luxury of blatant selfhood.
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I see these goals as inextricably linked, a kind of double helix of selfhood.
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It was these fantasies — these ideas of selfhood — that stayed their execution, she said.
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They are, or at least were, invitations to explore the repressed elements of American selfhood.
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That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure.
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"We" are the instruments, and our sense of selfhood is the sum of their readouts.
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No public figure better embodies that mantra of full female selfhood: Wear what you like.
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Shirow and Oshii knew that, even if our ideas about selfhood have evolved since cyberpunk's heyday.
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That seems possible, especially since the show spends so much time dealing with ideas about selfhood.
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We can also see the qualities we value most in human selfhood in "sort of" form.
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Humans alone develop an extreme sense of selfhood through our interactions with others from earliest life.
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"You could call this selfhood many things," she writes at the end of a fabulous story.
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The show, curated by Natasha Matteson, gains its richness from a paradox at the heart of selfhood.
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It also has critical implications for what we mean by "intelligence"—and even selfhood, according to Friston.
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Moonlight is scheduled for worldwide release the following day, and McCraney is discussing the mythology of selfhood.
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But "Queen & Slim" is arguably more concerned with what this brutality does to black selfhood and agency.
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International teams are not community assets, they are not beholden to season-ticket holders and they do not reflect a local identity; a pan-continental tournament is not a threat to their selfhood in the way it is a threat to the selfhood of a football domestic club.
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Today, the MBTI is variously assailed for spreading a phoney sense of selfhood and its susceptibility to gaming.
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Kahn's poems are strategic attacks against mythic fictions like selfhood, gender, even the universal acceptance of scientific knowledge.
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The longer I went without answers to questions tied to my selfhood, the more shame ate me up.
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I was protecting myself from the pressure of her love, a force that seemed to obliterate my selfhood.
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It continues a dialogue started by those predecessors—one about selfhood in the wake of a harsh history.
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In the Munich production, Gerda's search for Kay becomes a metaphor for a loved one's loss of selfhood.
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You can defend the boundaries of your selfhood while still reaching out to express your love and concern.
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So this created an ideal of selfhood, of the individual as the prime source of success and accomplishment.
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This is to help a survivor reclaim her selfhood, with the aim of dispelling the immobilizing experience of objectification.
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For Shinran, this is a pivotal form of spiritual prostration — a laying low of the last vestiges of selfhood.
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They've created an ecstatic cult of victimization and recast the pursuit of justice as an assault on their selfhood.
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I began thinking about my selfhood as a meadow of wildflowers that had been paved over by the Internet.
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Other authors have long valued her writing about writing — its unyielding frustrations and the battle for selfhood it encompasses.
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What happens when there's some other shiny object that offers us a false escape from the hell of selfhood?
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I have always been encouraged to journey to selfhood by black femmes and their contributions to art, music, and cinema.
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Adlon doesn't ask us to run with Sam's pretensions—she has none—she just asks us to recognize her selfhood.
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Many of these moments are discussions about love and female selfhood, with Trish, Elaine's new friend, doubling as her foil.
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Ms. Piper sustains a dangerous, seesawing tension between the familiar, wryly civilized surface and the primal agony that swallows selfhood.
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What if the crux of the moment — really since 2008 — is a matter of selfhood and representation and political correctives?
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The treatment of selfhood, arguably the richest subject for the novel, has taken two notable courses in recent American fiction.
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Taken Advantage Of Steve Almond: You've suffered a devastating betrayal, an assault not just on your body but on your selfhood.
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The statement of names is also a reaffirmation of selfhood – that women can and should have the right to be individuals.
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Selfhood—other people's—is what she returns to again and again, through what else but her own shifting and brilliant subjectivity.
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I started dwelling on the notion of selfhood and the human compulsion to constantly uplift the natural body and its processes.
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The playwright Michael R. Jackson (yeah, the middle initial is important) offers a semi-autobiographical musical about the search for selfhood.
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In the minds of other animals, even insects, Dennett believes, we can see the functional components upon which our selfhood depends.
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Here we have both a comment on the commodification of the female body and the most explicit demonstration of digital selfhood.
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Most of the artists in Show Me approach selfhood through a certain degree of distance and obscurity that worldly violence can't touch.
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Selfhood soon resurfaced in such masterpieces as paintings that fretted precise images of the Los Angeles Yellow Pages with seething painterly incident.
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Although Sánchez rejects the term "feminist," her works (and career) convey an expansive complexity that mirrors the many layers of women's selfhood.
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The feeling of selfhood of those who have endured trauma is shaped by the gaze of others as much as their experience.
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Selfhood is not particularly well-suited for perpetuity, rhythm is not mere regularity, and names find their meaning in the ongoing exchange.
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"Lucy Barton," a 100-minute monologue directed with penetrating calm by Richard Eyre, is about a different kind of search for selfhood.
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Time and selfhood get mixed in with the half-truths and partial vision, and it's alarming how supremely natural it all feels.
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And is it possible that Michael Jackson's establishment of his own self-identity involved repeated attempts to obliterate the selfhood of two boys?
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This drama is also driven by ideas: Olga and Ruth speak of selfhood and independence, torn between loyalty to others and to self.
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Because your voice can make or break your ability to pass in cisgender society, finding it becomes an act of announcing our selfhood.
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He studied Indian philosophy, which supported his belief that selfhood was an illusion, and that destroying this illusion was the only possible salvation.
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Yiadom-Boakye is doing more than exploring the supposedly uncharted territory of black selfhood, or making—in that hackneyed phrase—the invisible visible.
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On YouTube and Twitter and Instagram, recommendation algorithms have been making us feel individually catered to while bending our selfhood into profitable shapes.
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Artist's Questionnaire The artist has been challenging our notions of identity and selfhood for three decades, but her latest project feels uniquely pressing.
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And there's something about being an extremely famous person, being possessed by so many, that strips a person of a part of their selfhood.
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But the Facebook experience will have been bad if it has taught us that resistance to corporate incursions on selfhood and citizenship is futile.
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Designers are not just arbiters of skirt lengths and bell sleeves; the most prominent ones can, through their clothing, encapsulate and influence female selfhood.
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On "Doesn't matter," she sings about being at the precipice of an abyss, dealing with "suicidal thoughts," and questioning the cosmological origins of selfhood.
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The joke in this piece, as in many of those reflecting his professional selfhood, lost its edge as his reputation actually grew, albeit modestly.
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When she encounters a woman who claims to be a younger Shelley, her life begins to unravel, raising broader questions about work and selfhood.
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I wrote a book about my story, and I realized that despite my accepting upbringing, I had been ignoring an essential element of my selfhood.
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Joshua Rashaad McFadden's Come to Selfhood is a photo series that grapples with the definition of what masculinity means for black men in America today.
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I experience gender as an obstacle to my selfhood — ultimately I would like to be seen as a person outside of the rubric of gender.
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He is, however, unaware of the extent of her burden and sacrifice, and of how difficult it is to shed one's selfhood for another person.
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The idea was to see how our views of boredom, loneliness, selfhood, and community have evolved over time, and how technologies have sparked those evolutions.
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Through a combination of light and sound, for a few moments at least, the work can strip you of all the typical assurances of selfhood.
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This novel is not for readers interested in plot or suspense: Its largest rewards are in its poetic consideration of time, grief, selfhood and fate.
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In the poems that follow, she fleshes out the experience of selfhood, as it corresponds to the world, more completely than in her previous collections.
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I experience gender as an obstacle to my selfhood — ultimately I would like to be seen as a person outside of the rubric of gender.
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"I definitely believe in the concept of rebellion through selfhood and rebellion just by embracing your true identity, no matter what you're being told," she says.
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What the solitude allows is for Circe to be who she is without having her selfhood deformed by the expectation of her father, family, or society.
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Human intelligence is a strongly integrated system, one whose many attributes — including emotions, desires, and a strong sense of selfhood and autonomy — can't easily be separated.
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ACE: Art on Sports, Promise, and Selfhood continues at the University Art Museum, University at Albany, SUNY (1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York) through December 7.
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What Barack Obama ended up "stitching together" in his path to selfhood — the unifying idea that became his core reference — was the United States of America.
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She argues that we're not only motivated by some internal pulse of pure selfhood; we're creatures of desire and our desires aren't something we can steer.
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Both Bruno and Lewis seemed to feel their selfhood was under threat, even if the latter was put under a much more blatant sort of pressure.
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Paralleling Charles's quest for selfhood is that of a bewildered Prince Harry, whose hedonistic lifestyle is not unlike that of Prince Hal in the "Henry IV" plays.
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For queer people in the postwar era, these secret pages — which included news and politics as well as fiction, poetry, and art — were vital to their selfhood.
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Furthermore, when autistic identity is defined as antithetical to language, autistic people are denied selfhood on the grounds that they are disconnected from a fundamental human activity.
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Both regimes conspire to stifle any spark of independent selfhood; what matters isn't who you are but how you appear, and the tiniest transgression can be fatal.
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"People talk about a sense of oneness with the universe, that lessening of selfhood that's associated with a more spiritual, heady, altered state of consciousness," she said.
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As her quest for selfhood continues, Ada becomes an amoral monster of longing, pushing to cure Samson while sociopathically disregarding anyone who would stand in her way.
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The multitude of themes on the album—selfhood, identity, modernity and the modern world—all addressed in Alsarah's native dialect of Northern Sudanese Arabic, are not easily summed up.
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"Am I a Jo or an Amy?" is as pleasurable a question to consider, as it is revealing of the tight strictures that govern our understanding of womanly selfhood.
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But it was Instagram and YouTube that, for a new generation of "content creators" and "influencers," truly collapsed whatever line might have still existed between selfhood and commodifiable product.
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And yet here we are, playing the game of selfhood and freedom, without the balm of a unifying religion and under the sway of a shallow but pervasive culture.
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Kahn comes to approach the idea of a self resistant to categories, a selfhood which trumps the division of labor by emptying her poems of anything like a unitary speaker.
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It's not the 53s anymore but a world, like our own, of images — a place where a face instantly becomes a photograph projected on a screen, an assertion of selfhood.
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That something is not their love of football, nor their sense of selfhood, nor even a common language, but rather an irreducible bond of commonality – a fierce affinity of the soul.
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The opening story of this vivid book features a young, half-black narrator who happens to be a Latinx homie, discovering his gay selfhood without making a single apology for anything.
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At best, our failure to locate something that we ourselves last handled suggests that our memory is shot; at worst, it calls into question the very nature and continuity of selfhood.
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We let students have complete freedom to write on topics of their own choice in forms of their own choosing — so the classroom space promotes democratic processes that can foster selfhood.
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In her latest dance-theater work, the choreographer Tamar Rogoff continues her investigations of selfhood and physicality, shedding light on the many ways in which a person can inhabit a body.
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We have these tools right in front of us, tools that expand consciousness and cut through the illusion of selfhood, and now we have evidence that shows their potentially transformative effects.
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In Sun Yung Shin's third book of poetry, she explores the mystery of selfhood through the near-human and almost-human, through ghosts and guests and myths: cyborgs, the minotaur, the adoptee.
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But there is also a significant difference between the two: Getting religious rewards in the brain requires a greater degree of "higher thought"—more abstract thinking on concepts like selfhood and morality.
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Instead of asking whether a couple should stay together, these shows examine whether the shortcut of infidelity or the sloggier path of professional reinvention is a better way to reclaim a selfhood.
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WM: Right, because I think so much of what we're talking about is the ways in which identity are bound up in totems of, of nationhood, but then by extension, also selfhood.
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It is undeniable that the joining of a new head and body raises intriguing questions of personal identity, legal and social definitions of selfhood, and questions about the limits of science and medicine.
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As The Guardian writer Arwa Mahdawi wrote, "In a world that is constantly trying to erase your selfhood and deny your self-worth, choosing to focus on yourself really is a radical act."
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Just as Swing Time engages with how shifts in time affect one's selfhood, it also tempers the reverie of wealth it puts on display with the dehumanization that goes into managing that wealth.
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I found myself almost taking pleasure in this judgment—like the pleasure of pushing on a bruise—and the ways it became a consolidation, a shoring-up of selfhood: I am not that.
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But it is the people who know this, and who spend their days trying to answer the riddles of their own selfhood anyway, who make the art that endures, transforms and, ultimately, inspires.
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Foote asks us to respect those reasons, even if they are ultimately overruled; they are part of the dignity of selfhood he identifies in the American, or at any rate the Texan, spirit.
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It left untouched the question of how a three-pound lump of neurons could come to possess a point of view, interiority, selfhood, consciousness—qualities that the rest of the material world lacks.
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She's no twit, and her destructive behavior — inspired by that of Mirabella-Davis's own grandmother, who was lobotomized for a hand-washing compulsion — becomes a savvy and tragic bid to retain her selfhood.
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"Po has to confront some fairly grown-up ideas in this installment" — mortality, absence, selfhood, afterlife — and "the character has certainly matured over the three films," Neil Genzlinger wrote in The New York Times.
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The things that had been said in the build-up couldn't be taken back, and the issues of race and selfhood that the fight had thrown up were as bitter as they were sensitive.
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In the repaired Palais El Bahia, which is replete with ornate carvings, mosaic floors, and intricately patterned wooden ceilings, Fadda displays a multitude of works that explore and reclaim ideas of selfhood and nationalism.
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The 6.53th president has proved, again and again, that he is a sui generis character whose appeal is predicated more on his own colossal selfhood than on any definable set of ideas or positions.
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Both "Once the World Was Perfect," from her 2015 book, "Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings," and "Remember," from 1983's "She Had Some Horses," reveal the ties between selfhood and the wider, wild universe.
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Where many coming-of-age films build their stories around the discovery of a fixed selfhood, "Giant Little Ones" succeeds when it chooses to treat youthful identity as open to shift with accumulated experience.
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Part of what makes this documentary so engrossing is how seductively it spotlights not only the draw of the superstar himself but the way in which his entire selfhood was warped by post-racial hooey.
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Discursive Selves is a careful exploration of the bits and pieces that comprise our ideas of selfhood, and Lawton and Takahashi propose a refreshing take on what can feel like an overworked and insipid theme.
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Of all symbols of identity, only 'American' has succeeded in uniting nationality with universality, civic and spiritual selfhood, sacred and secular history, the country's past and the paradise to be, in a single transcendent ideal.
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He's our elusive, humorous ironist, something like a 21st-century Socrates, who happens to be particularly interested in sex, sports, selfhood, actors and fiction (all of which Plato's character Socrates also discusses, for that matter).
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He explores philosophical and psychological notions of selfhood and human thought, from Cartesian dualism to Heidegger's idea of a "being-in-the-world," and breaks down the ongoing debate over what distinguishes humans from other animals.
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"In this contemporary media realm of very heightened performativity, construction and commodification of the 'authentic', those stories and images all appear to convey a lack of performance, construction, and a genuine sense of selfhood," Thomas said.
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Maybe that's why I've always found silent or nameless protagonists the most fascinating, as it's possible to project the feminine aspects of my selfhood onto them without feeling like I would be personally offending the creators.
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Shields is our elusive, humorous ironist, something like a 21st-century Socrates, who happens to be particularly interested in sex, sports, selfhood, actors and fiction (all of which Plato's character Socrates also discusses, for that matter).
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It also helped me to empathize with my own mom, who raised my sister and me alone, and shed light on the painstaking work of maintaining selfhood when all your time is spent on another person.
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His drawings — intricate, figurative works exploring gender and constructed notions of selfhood — were recently on view at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York, and at the Studio, an HBO-sponsored pop-up venue in Provincetown, Mass.
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So that is my main objective: to not protect my corners and position, cover my ego-nuts, exert my status and selfhood, but to do all that for the team, and to the ends of the team.
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Petty, yes, but the point is that by limiting the act of registering for gifts to weddings and babies, we're prioritizing those "heteronormative" acts over those that celebrate more progressive and more widely attainable notions of selfhood.
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His photographs are not wholly self-portraits; his own body is as much a malleable prop as his costumes, but to say Klauke's own selfhood is missing would minimize the personal exploration in his performance and play.
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A thought-stirring and entertaining monologue of many dialogues that explore the nature of friendship, selfhood and human communication, told by a writer on the phone with an unseen person who sounds suspiciously like him (1:1503).
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A thought-stirring and entertaining monologue of many dialogues that explore the nature of friendship, selfhood and human communication, told by a writer on the phone with an unseen person who sounds suspiciously like him (1:40).
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As the woman untangles her feelings — "I resent the spectacle of all this breeding, which I see as a turning away from the living," she says — the novel becomes a broader exploration of creativity, art and selfhood.
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That is, until you realize that what binds them — all tell of a determinedly independent young hero's quest for selfhood catalyzed by the crucible of New York City — is also what makes them so resistant to comparison.
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As the story progresses, Tiny Cat's selfhood expands in direct correlation to the amount of balls he's collected, but when he tries to acquire just one more, his material possessions, as well as his false identity, collapse.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In Italo Calvino's novel Invisible Cities, Marco Polo regales Kublai Khan with tales of his travels, musing about the strange poetry of each city and their intersections with memory and selfhood.
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She expects her own feelings about herself, her life and her choices to be honored and respected by others, but she refuses to grant others, whom she claims to love, the same autonomy of feelings, thoughts and selfhood.
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My tendency to construct scenarios and perform for my camera in my portraiture and self-portraits have given me a grasp on my preoccupation with femininity, selfhood, and the ways that sexuality contributes to the construction of identity.
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How many clever "think pieces" must we endure in which our humanity is held up for debate, as if the question of our own selfhood is part of an argument which even now we might win or lose?
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In the middle of the last century, a woman muscled from wartime factory work kills her batterer spouse in self-defense, dismembers his body, feeds it to a furnace and then steals his selfhood: She becomes Abe Kunstler.
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Talking, chattering, and whispering in long, uninterrupted streams that seem to be about environmental collapse, concepts of selfhood, and the tenuousness of bodies, Dalt provides an echo to an anxious epoch of informational overload, impending doom, and malleability humanity.
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And I hope people learn from the outrageous excesses that created such a husk of a human being, who one day lost his selfhood to a trephine drill, a cocksure surgeon and a society that didn't know any better.
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That gives this entry in the franchise (directed by Alessandro Carloni and Jennifer Yuh Nelson) a darker feel than the first two — young viewers will have to process not only the scary Kai, but also thoughts of mortality, absence, selfhood, afterlife.
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There are a ton of shows right now where comedians play themselves, but "Wife" is the only one pulling off stand-up-as-selfhood, exploring the idea that the more you're yourself in your life, the better your comedy becomes.
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His many books include "Sources of the Self," an exploration of how different ideas of selfhood helped define Western civilization, and "A Secular Age," a study of the coexistence of religious and nonreligious people in an era dominated by secular ideas.
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My ability—my eagerness, even—to render myself digitally available played a role in this: by giving the attention economy access to my selfhood, I accrued the professional capital that now allows me to stop doing so, if I want to.
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All non-Karens of all ages should be on the lookout for Karens — mocking you when you ask for a raise, cutting your best jokes, shaming you for losing your lanyard — and their assaults on our happiness, selfhood and freedom.
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Be the Cowboy is an accessible meditation on selfhood, and just as a self is often multiplicitous, so is Mitski's masterful use of various genres—ducking and diving, though always brought together by the devastating deftness of her lyrical hand.
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Social-media companies monetize everyday selfhood: our preferences and personal data are tracked and sold to advertisers; our relationships are framed as potentially profitable conduits; we continually capture one another's lucrative attention by performing some version of who we think we are.
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Essentially, he's saying, all of us create imagined in-groups which allow us to align ourselves to often imagined and occasionally real factions as a means of creating a concrete selfhood that operates on the basis of rejection as much as it does inclusion.
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Each work in ACE: Art on Sports, Promise, and Selfhood considers the cultures of sport and physical fitness as not just games and entertainment, but modes of expression that encompass striving toward goals, hard work, and clear — if often unfair — terms of success and failure.
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I spent a while last month mourning the un-slept-in-ness of one side of my bed, but Waxahatchee and American Weekend, with their candor, reflection, and dedication to flawed selfhood, reminded me that just meant more space to stretch out my own weary limbs.
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Whereas the studiolo functioned as a kind of miniature throne room, whose owner could order his personal microcosm and, in doing so, develop a sense of distinct selfhood, the traditional office, on the other hand, embodied stable employment and was legitimated by (an ostensibly) meritocratic bureaucracy.
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It's astounding, really, to marvel at the thought: How they could, day in and day out, offer up their service for a country that at times did not prize them, that had for decades seeked to demolish their selfhood and the communities where their loved ones lived.
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Hybrid and slippery as this book is — part memoir, part study of the poet's own influences and ancestors, part meditation on poetics and selfhood — "To Float in the Space Between" is Hayes's first full-length prose work, illustrated by sketches demonstrating the writer's deft graphic skills.
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The free exchange between Monroe and Mishima, figures who both chose death over the demands of postwar America, reaffirms that Mr. Morimura's real project is giving form to the formlessness of modern selfhood, in which even ethnicities and genders are mere costumes donned by a vacant self.
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Meanwhile, to understand what it might mean to "be" a goat (or, for that matter, to "be" anyone), Thwaites began reading the philosopher Martin Heidegger, who argued that our selfhood resides not in our language-based thoughts but in the interplay of our skills, habits, and moods.
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I hadn't expected much before reading the book, but I ended up delightfully surprised at how strongly it resonated: the ways in which Nabokov engaged with his own selfhood, the thinking that unspooled from that, how it reflected what I was doing in the debut novel I was working on.
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Penelope Farmer's 1969 novel "Charlotte Sometimes" (which inspired the Cure's moody, synthesizer-laden 1980s recording of the same name) opens with standard feelings of homesickness and shifting selfhood, but quickly turns fantastical when, on her second day at a new boarding school, Charlotte slips back in time more than 20053 years to 1918.
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Spero was in her mid-235s when she created the Black Paintings (22007-210), "her first mature works, […] which seem to brood over existential questions of selfhood, motherhood, and otherness," as the wall text puts it in the gallery featuring a selection of these works and of the War Series (21-22003).
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Instead of engaging with the particular traumas that the characters have gone through which I've been rendered on the screen what is subbed in is sort of a universalized system that requires you to buy into an essentialist reading of selfhood and often of gender and often of just like what it means to be a human.
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In order to try to answer that question, I reached out to nine gender non-conforming and trans photographers—some close friends of mine, and some artists whose work I've admired from afar—and asked each of them to send me a photo or project of their own that focuses on trans and/or non-binary selfhood or community.
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And it is here that we arrive, perhaps, at a final irony: If Kafka's fictions have often been read as parables of belatedness, non-arrival and perpetual deferment, there are other ways — most notably, the genuine, if fraught, multiculturalism of his literary imagination and conception of selfhood — in which he still remains ahead of us, pointing a direction forward.
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And this is what Busch offers, roaming from essay to essay in a loose, associative style, following invisibility where it takes her — from childhood and the comfort of imaginary friends to middle age and the feeling of disappearing as a sexual object: a sensation, she argues, that can form the basis of a new, and positive, form of selfhood.
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Among them: a tree bearing numerous species of fruit, from bananas and grapes to pineapples and lemons (for an article about WeChat, the Chinese "app that does everything"); a woman's mouth, with chipped front teeth, having just taken a bite out of an iPhone (for Mr. Wasik's introductory essay); the Korean artist Dain Yoon, who used makeup to paint her own face several times atop her own face (for an article about teen selfhood online).
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