"And, unlike in other European countries, in Spain there has been no collective declaration of guilt or rejection of the past".
The 2013 crop comprises an unplanned, if not accidental, collective declaration of the essence of the cinema, an art of images and sounds that, at their best, don't exist to tell a story or to tantalize the audience (though they may well do so) but, rather, to reflect a crisis in the life of the filmmaker and the state of the artist's mind or, even, soul.
This is a positive decision that communities themselves have made and have celebrated through public, collective declarations.
It forces us to reflect on the meaning of our identity, slicing it into words, using remembrances of a supposedly better past, combining objects of collective desire, declarations of alleged unity, unfulfilled hopes and unreal dreams.
Therefore, a declaration and collective recognition by, to recapitulate Searle's formulation, the people involved are both necessary and jointly sufficient conditions for the creation of social entities.
This question targets not only the PIA in question but Searle's whole account of social entities, because it prevents a clear response to the question of how strong the collective recognition of a declaration has to be.
NAIROBI, Kenya, 14 December 2009 Last monthhundredseds of men, women and children gathered in a Somali stadium in the early morning heat to witness a historic declaration: the collective abandonment of female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C)... Email this article.
By Denise Shepherd-Johnson NAIROBI, Kenya, 14 December 2009 Last monththundredseds of men, women and children gathered in a Somali stadium in the early morning heat to witness a historic declaration: the collective abandonment of female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C) by representatives from 20 communities.
Somali communities say 'No' to female genital cutting NAIROBI, Kenya, 14 December 2009 Last monththundredseds of men, women and children gathered in a Somali stadium in the early morning heat to witness a historic declaration: the collective abandonment of female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C) by representatives from 20 communities.
And yet who could dispute the fact that, when it comes to unabashed, even triumphalist declarations of collective neurosis, the Jews have had the market locked down for a long time — so much so, in fact, that they are the only ethnic group I know of that members of other ethnic groups will unabashedly declare to be suffering from collective neurosis.
