Among the many possible responses to Calle's work, what emerges most clearly is that hers is a very contemporary instance of personal mythologizing, of using the material of her own life as paradigmatic.
But if the TOL is understood and used as a heuristic (and there seem to be many contemporary instances of this sort of use), then the value of its continued deployment is such that no mere "falsification" will get rid of it.
Bentley generally divides interest groups into two categories: organization groups (contemporary instances would include the American Association of Retired Persons, the National Association of Broadcasters, and the National Council of La Raza) and discussion, or "talk," groups.
Intended to call attention to contemporary instances of starvation as well as mark the famine that devastated Ireland -- and transformed New York in the process -- the memorial was designed by Brian Tolle, an artist; Juergen Riehm and David Piscuskas of 1100 Architects; and Gail Eileen Wittwer, a landscape architect.
Or you could start the story in 1989, with the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, or with the murder of the filmmaker Theo van Gogh, in Holland, in the fall of 2004, because those were the first important contemporary instances of Islamist threats against free speech in the secular democracies of the West.
Finally, mention is made of some new contemporary instances of this tradition of what is termed "professional scientific idealism".
However, there have been contemporary instances of dispute within the community itself over who is properly considered to be a member of the Ngunnawal people.
I will tell him about James Byrd, Jr., the fake drug scandal of Dallas, the Tulia drug busts, and other contemporary instances of societal racism in our home State of Texas, even as previous generations of Black fathers have spoken to their sons of Emmett Till, the Tuskegee Experiment, and COINTELPRO.
For a contemporary home, for instance, she suggests Design Within Reach's crisp Neutra house numbers.
