"The Truth About Islam From an Ex-Muslim Lady," YouTube's most-discussed video ever, shows a woman on a TV-news program delivering a fearsome disquisition in Arabic on Samuel P. Huntington's clash-of-civilizations idea — the concept that global politics are now determined by potentially apocalyptic cultural collisions.
In that case a clash between the concepts of providence and fatalism is inevitable.
In both galleries, Mr. Belott has covered all available wall space, triple-hanging works without benefit of framing for an intimate and rewarding clash of styles, materials and concepts.
Triple-hung without benefit of framing, the works generate a rewarding clash of styles, materials and concepts that is characterized by unrelenting play between and among linear and dense, bare and textured, representational and abstract.
This action would seem to derive from the concept of a "clash of civilisations", a school of thought that Islamist extremists subscribe to, since they, we understand, view America, or even the whole of western civilisation, as a hegemonous monolith; an enemy to be feared and, if possible, destroyed.
The episode had no clear concept such as Shakespeare and witches in "The Shakespeare Code" or Agatha Christie and a murder mystery in "The Unicorn and the Wasp"—and instead was a deliberate "clash [of concepts] with many disparate elements".
It has been heaped with praise for a story about that elusive concept--our evolving clash of feelings--and the confusion we feel during adolescence.
He was inspired in part by the 1981 feature film, Clash of the Titans, saying, "the real high concept for me was... merging it with Heavy Metal magazine".
There's the concept of timelessness, of breaking rules, and the clash of different inspirations.
But if these concepts are not revived politically, the worst scenarios of a clash of civilizations could become reality.
The idea of a "clash of civilizations" may be superseded by a clash of "spheres of influence," an old concept in world affairs that has raised its head again.
