Word: organismic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Here identification is "the social bonding of an organism to another or a group of organisms, usually of the same species. While the ability to identify may be genetically determined..." the form of identification is not. 5 According to Alland, another human universal is the "Tendency to avoid ambiguity" which...
A deeper look will show that the concept of the "empty organism," plastic and unstructured, apart from being false also serves naturally as the support for the most reactionary of social doctrines. If people are, in fact, malleable and plastic beings with no essential psychological nature, then why should they...
The '20s gadfly was stung in turn by Robert Benchley's parody of factual anthologies, Did You Know That- Ice is really a vegetable organism which forms on the surface of water to prevent it from freezing solid?
The work of art, which is itself an abstract reality, must be formed from invented elements. The concrete significance arises out of a combination of morphological archetypes and the architectonic conditions appropriate to its own intrinsic organism.
Sweet Movie was shown two years ago at the Cannes Film Festival. Since then it has acquired a justifiably vile reputation. A sort of live-action animated cartoon, the movie is a paean to the joys of insanity. Should there be any mistaking this intent, Director Dusan Makavejev (who made...