Search Results for contemplation

... by arguing for the role of contemplative practices in developing “transformative listening” as a way to connect environmental sciences with processes of moral and political formation. 25. Wilson, Origins of Creativity , second page of chap. 9 (digital version). 26. Ingold, Being Alive , 287...

... explains, “Any one physiologic variable is characterized by a spectrum of rhythms that are genetically anchored, sociologically synchronized . . . and influenced by heliogeophysical effects.” As we contemplate faster and further travel and other activities that disrupt our biorhythms, we need to develop...

... of attentiveness through a practice known as phusike theoria , or contemplation of nature. 5 The significant work, especially by Douglas Christie, to develop a “contemplative ecology” and the wider contemplative turn in recent theology form the immediate backdrop to the present study. 6 But where...

... a stretch of coast without any digital or human distractions and contemplate the sea. Instagram is not conducive to alerting everyone, “I did a lot of thinking today, and I still don’t know the answers.” Outrage, health experts repeatedly observe, is habitual and self-reinforcing—in a word, addictive. 14...

... contemplated the deterioration of society to “indigenous consumerism” and the postwar state’s inability to deliver on wartime promises, but still promoting a “party-sanctioned culture.” 13 Despite having their own writing trajectories and concerns, these two Đổi Mới writers overlap in their deep...

... ecologies queerly and cuir- ly generate, instead, as so many of us contemplate in our everyday how to live, eat, transform, and find pleasure in a toxic and pandemic world drenched by hurricane floods, smoked by forest fires, and blanched by heat waves? And in our queer ecologies of the everyday, how can...

... in Human Hands . 1. St. Fleur, “If Mars Is Colonized.” Since time immemorial the moon has captured the human imagination, structuring time and emotions, inviting contemplation about native inhabitants both similar to and different from those on Earth, and projecting life on Earth “out...

... everyday environments. Answering this requires a better understanding of the process by which affects—those gut punch moments at a baby's grave, for instance—acquire the “narrative complexity of emotions” and how, inversely, the emotions we read about and contemplate at sites of public memory “denature...

... by it, the “first lover” here is the “sea” itself. 18 No longer the object of contemplation invoked by the human lover in his plea to the beloved, the sea has the agency and the feelings of a lover, but acts in geological time. “A left margin” might be a margin of a tectonic plate active in forming California...

.... Albedo’s world-building potential and promise of alternate worlds lend the concept to speculative applications. Speculation joins the optical origins of albedo with the etymology of “speculate”—from the Latin specere “to look at, view,” and specula or “lookout point,” “contemplation, observation” 4...

..., emerging through meiosis and mitosis. Against the horizon of the geological eon, we find lodged in our very flesh an archaic past of a more-than-human lineage promising an anarchic future of a more-than-human paternity. While one might still view the destructive force of a tsunami from afar, or contemplate...

... they are plants; the soldiers reject the capitalist ethos of the garrison, denouncing work and trade as “unnatural” and claiming that “the only worthwhile thing was to sit and contemplate—outside.” 4 In Han Kang’s The Vegetarian , Yeong-hye’s arboromorphic transformation is initially inspired by a refusal...

...Affrica Taylor; Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw; Sandrina de Finney; Mindy Blaise In “Thinking about Inheritance Through the Figure of the Anthropocene, from the Antipodes and in the Presence of Others,” Lesley Instone and Affrica Taylor contemplate the various inheritances that shape everyday...

...; the gardener—resting on her elbows—seems to contemplate these continuous alterations with disinterested pleasure. The artwork displays and, at the same time, materializes the close relationship of human and nature—it seems as if the gardener would simultaneously contemplate the growing of the maritime flowers...

... for aspiring attentional deviants like me, Quammen even offered this piece of invaluable methodological advice: “Just take a day or an hour each month to think carefully about something that nobody else deems worthy of contemplation,” he wrote. “Pick a subject so perversely obscure that it can’t help but have...

... , 30 nos. 7–8 ( 2013 ): 33 – 50 .” In “At Seascale,” Rawnsley contemplates a different kind of pleasure in the shore, one that is closer to a notion of the sublime, or spiritual inspiration: Here, as we walk along the quilted shore, Dusted with diamond, rich with shell’s inlay, We watch...

... Let me motivate this claim with a perhaps unexpected data point. In 1986, feminist artist Pat Steir offered a critique of what she judged to be dominant apprehensions of the Wave image. She argued that too many reproductions and quotations seemed to shore up a distant and contemplative reading...

... it to Providence, human destiny under God's guidance. Ecomoderns are not quietists who sit in contemplation awaiting the good Anthropocene's arrival; instead, they want to smooth its path. Their political engagement is directed towards facilitating the attainment of that which is ordained. Their task is to protect...

... simplicity and serenity, which are the fruits of spiritual contemplation. People who embrace such practices will “live better each moment” (§223). With this affirmation of the sacrament of the present moment, Francis resists those great contributions to human development and material and technical progress...

... was vandalized in 2001 and as a result the South African Heritage Resource Agency removed it. 59 Interestingly, the protester(s) had not targeted the trees themselves. Authors of essays and newspaper articles critically discussed the hedge, but none of their contemplations sparked a lasting debate about its...