(iv) Change the character of an object.
Accordingly, dualities imply a "twofold character of an object of study without separation" (Farjoun 2010).
The Success Condition concerns the fit between the actual and the intended character of an object; the Acceptance Condition the fit between the author's conception of an object and its intended character.
If the actual character of an object does not agree with its intended character, it is unsatisfactory from the author's point of view, and if the author's conception of an object does not agree with its intended character, the artifact is subjectively unsatisfactory from the author's point of view.
An orrery (a mechanical apparatus which illustrates with balls of various sizes the relative motions and positions of the bodies of the solar system) that was satisfactory as an astronomical demonstrator could also delight as a work of art beyond its character as an object of craftsmanship.
At least it's not as bad as the prequel film, Kingsglaive, which relegated the sole female character to the role of MacGuffin, an object to be fought over, who is at one point literally told not to bother trying anything at all because she's not the hero.
But Luhrmann identifies far more strongly with Gatsby than he does with Nick, and instead of a tragic figure undone by his false optimism and unrequited yearning, the character becomes an object of envy - someone whose swank mansion and runway couture would be awfully nice to call one's own.
Holography is as aesthetically, technologically, and chronologically distant from ancient paintings as any art form, but the artist Etienne Guiol and his compatriots at BK I Digital art company fuse the two media his new work A I M. In an evocative teaser video, the French artist shows his holographic animation of a character throwing an object in an abandoned factory.
But the owners of the Barney character have only themselves to blame if Barney-bashing experiences a renaissance — particularly among denizens of the Internet, for whom the character has been an object of gleefully malevolent parody, off and on, since the early days of the Web.
Many, if not most, of the things we keep have an essence that goes beyond the physical character of the object," says Randy Frost, a professor at Smith College, in Northampton, Mass., who has studied and written about hoarding and is the author of "Stuff".
But in the 1940s the nance character started becoming an object of ridicule, and by the 1960s it was just awful — the nance was usually subjected to offensive jokes and sexually derogatory put-downs that were really ugly".
