Word: hegelian
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Titles in this show conspicuously, though ostensibly coincidentally, refer to a consciousness or mental presence. Emily Cheng's "The Most Violent of all Pleasures" and Heather Hobler-Keene's "Memory of Lost Thought" presuppose the Hegelian "Idea." Adding a gloss of abstraction, they are not merely descriptive. Yet there are no titles or names on the gallery walls, defying the instinct to seek verbal direction...
America invented hip-hop, the UK countered with drum 'n bass, and America now unites the two with This is Jungle Sky Vol. VII. It all sounds very Hegelian, doesn...
...this now? Maybe it is just a recognition that fractured forms are the ones best suited to the times. This explanation appeals to a lot of architects, who are prone anyway to a kind of Hegelian metaphysics, a sense that they are not just designing department stores and offices but rendering the spirit of the age in steel and stone. In recent years, some of the more theoretically inclined among them, such as Peter Eisenman and Steven Holl, have been connecting their designs to things like French literary analysis, the kind that presumes to dismantle the falsehoods of language...
...thing too.) It was fallen guru Dick Morris who tried to make the case that Clinton was the great postideological hedgehog, the unifier of divergent strains in American political thought. Clinton, Morris said, is "the end product of the debate between Democrats and Republicans this century." He used this Hegelian dialectic to describe Clinton as the modern ideological synthesizer of traditionally Republican ideas (balancing the budget) and Democratic nostrums (raising the minimum wage). But Clinton is not so much the synthesis as the dialectic itself, veering from a massive top-down national health plan to supporting more incremental advances like...
...finished. I had to ask myself, Is his presidency worth defending? And I decided it was. He is the end product of the debate between Democrats and Republicans in this century. By marrying the Democratic doctrine of opportunity to the Republican doctrine of responsibility, Clinton could achieve a Hegelian synthesis. And on a personal level, this was as close as I'd ever get. What do I believe? I don't believe there is a single issue where Bill Clinton and I disagree. I'm just like...