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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"ineffable"”.
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Interfaces with the Ineffable
… place, are conceptualized as experiences of the ineffable. In this work, I use a reflective design practice to look at two primary approaches to designing interfaces with the ineffable, one emphasizes reduction and the other openness to interpretation. I discuss issues of control and reification …
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Assembling the Ineffable in Kurt Schwitters’ Architectural Models
… of architecture held that all materials have an ineffable transitory content that contributes to their identities as natural or man-made utilitarian things. In the Christian medieval exegesis of religious objects, the interpretation of materials as a dichotomy of visible form and invisible …
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The sign of the ineffable in twentieth century literature.
This study establishes a critical foundation for understanding the unique sacramental dynamic inherent to literature and to narrative art more generally, demonstrating how Derrida's deconstructive method leaves room for the particular species of referentiality claimed by the Catholic …
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Integrating the ineffable: a social phenomenological analysis of the psychedelic experience
There has been a renewed and growing interest in psychedelic drugs in the 21st century. Drawing on social-phenomenology, cognitive sociology, and ‘set and setting’ theory, I delineate how individuals use socially defined frameworks of understanding to attribute meaning to psychedelic experiences. …
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Between - Exploring the Ineffable in Search of the Sacred: Defining and Developing the Architecture of Experience
Our current century is fraught with disconnection. Extreme accessibility and connectivity facilitated by social media platforms and instant communication has given birth to a paradox: we are more connected than ever before, and increasingly distant - not only from one another, but also, and more …
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"""The ineffable moments will be harder won"": the genesis, compositional process, and early performance history of Michael Tippett's The Heart's Assurance"
Commissioned by tenor Peter Pears, Michael Tippett’s The Heart’s Assurance is an easily overlooked song cycle among twentieth-century English vocal repertoire, overshadowed by Benjamin Britten’s cyclical works and those of other British composers. This cycle, which moved Tippett to tears into his …
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Form + order: investigations into architecture + the architectural
… ideas as art and reveals that which is verbally ineffable.
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"The determinancy of logic in Wittgenstein's ""Tractatus"""
… idea that the Tractatus intends to communicate ineffable truths must be taken to heart, but that it is mistaken to suppose that Wittgenstein is clear about the status of his claims that the Tractatus is nonsense.
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Artifacts of the Kree
… a means of self-actualization and a grasp at the ineffable. The "Artifacts of the Kree" is a real-time interactive rendering of digitally fabricated objects belonging to a civilization that inhabited a planet far beyond the reaches of humanity. These objects were curated second hand by an unknown …
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Chaucer's "Naked Text" and the Tradition of the Medieval Sublime
… For the Romantics, the terror and awe of the ineffable or of natural phenomena effect transport. The medieval sublime, however, relies on the surprising power of the humble, local, and familiar to inebriate the senses unto the mystical and ineffable “heights” of experience. For both medieval …
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Artistic voice in music performance as/and complex thinking
… practice typically aims toward expressing the ineffable aspects of life. Yet neither the ineffable nor the lived experience of the expressive act is fully claimed by the observable object. This irreducibility is constituted through a process and/as its product. Within this co-dependent …
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Echoes of Earth
… of Branson, Missouri as a youth, and the ineffable truths that exist in the space between language and meaning. The introduction discusses and compares the poets Michael Palmer, Franz Wright, Mary Jo Bang and the ways that their respective theoretical frameworks influence the poems in this …
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Expressing the Inexpressible: Bearing Witness in Jean-François Lyotard and Pseudo-Dionysius
… possibility, even while called to testify to an ineffable. Both define this inexpressible as precisely that which must be expressed in the face of logic deeming it absurd. To endeavor under the weight of impossibility reveals both Lyotard's postmodernism and Pseudo-Dionysius' philosophic-theology …
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A geography of the heart
… to try to understand and articulate the most ineffable struggles of the heart, and the many ways we fail in both of these efforts--and why we persist, full of hope. As a whole, the collection investigates the successes and frustrations inherent in our attempts to understand and care for one …
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Mapping Appalachia
… understand a place. They also hint of something ineffable but true emerging from their forms. The history of movement of people and natural forces, the arriving and leaving of individuals and cultures change the landscape. Their stories are evident in their forms. The paintings in this series are …
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Essence of Portraiture.
… <p>The totality of an individual’s being is ineffable. Thus, the task of the portrait artist is limited to an evocation. ‘Essence’, attributes that identify a unique entity provide the necessary links to this act of re-creation. While some subjects depict strangers, the majority have …
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Color and Consciousness: Research and Painted Process of Inundate, Intumesce, Hermetic, and Luminiferous
… color, and life to visually communicate the ineffable. Color and self-consciousness, and the link between the two, are major concepts behind my work. I focus on color, a visual phenomenon, and self-consciousness, a metaphysical phenomenon, because both share a varied and indefinable nature, …
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Froude and Wilson on Carlyle — A Contrast
… evident truth of this statement is proved by the ineffable delight which is afforded to man in the reading of "biography"; and Thomas Carlyle, a master biographer himself, in his "Essay" on the subject, reveals "the one grand, invaluable secret" for this type of art: |To have an open, loving …
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