"One day, people may view sex as essentially recreational, and conception as something best done in the laboratory," Dr. Gregory Stock wrote recently in "Redesigning Humans.
Now, according to Hegel such a conception has something to be said for it as well as against it.
The automaker will also sell online via its Lynkco.com site, which is a trademark of its conception (again something seemingly derived from the Tesla playbook) and it'll also have a rolling pop-up shop that can make visits to spots that won't have a permanent Offline Store boutique.
So, yeah, basically it was a divine conception or something like that, like the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ, I guess.
Actually, it is quite possible as a Christian to believe Jesus had a biological father and believe the story of the virgin conception says something important.
They both believe their pieces have different phases: creation, execution, and interaction, which turn the initial conception into something completely different from what was first imagined.
He has complained of the "red herrings" they drag into their arguments and derided their legal conceptions as something "Rube Goldberg would envy".
In its constricted, surreal conception, there's something of absurdist theatre about Snowpiercer, though developed to grotesque extremes – as if Terry Gilliam or Michel Gondry had been hired to rewrite Samuel Beckett.
This low-key conception might have something to do with the unmistakable overlap between the film's setting and the milieu of Joel and Ethan Coen's own childhood, even if they maintain that the central story – about the personal and professional travails of Professor Larry Gopnik Michael Stuhlbargg) – is not based on their father's life.
The strength of Diller and Scofidio's conception here underscores something that was clear from their retrospective exhibition earlier this year at the Whitney: for all their talk about architecture as a form of social criticism or performance art, their real passions are traditional.
