Lumpen is a Russian modelling agency challenging the contemporary conceptions of beauty.
There remain available to us other possible states, in which we might connect to one another in different ways, giving rise to different implications, different conceptions of urban citizenship, and profoundly different outcomes.
AT THE heart of the battle between Greece and its EU partners over its debt crisis are conceptions about morality over debt and economics; issues that have been debated for thousands of years.
So too was the Cloisters' most famous artwork and his most treasured possession, a seven-panel tapestry from around 1500, "The Hunt of the Unicorn".Some 40 fantastical objects take the visitor on a tour of Christian and Jewish, Western and Eastern, Medieval and Renaissance conceptions of the unicorn.
And you'll notice that partisan conceptions of fairness and efficiency are suspiciously coherent.
Two interpretive communities are constructing their own mental conceptions of a speaker named "Barack Obama", and for each community, the speech counts as evidence for their own interpretation.The difference, however, is that William Blake is dead, whereas Barack Obama is very much alive and reads the responses of people who listen to his speeches.
WRITING in the New Yorker, James Surowiecki argues that concern with conflicting conceptions of fairness partly explains the difficulty of negotiating an agreement both Germans and Greeks would both be willing to endorse.German voters and politicians think it's unfair to ask Germany to continue to foot the bill for countries that lived beyond their means and piled up huge debts they can't repay.
It looks at the way Western fashions once reflected distorted conceptions of China, and makes abundant reference to the glory days of Hollywood.
But Dr Cagnacci argues that the seasonal variation he finds in the number of conceptions may allow children to be born in more favourable conditions.If so, it makes sense that more boys than girls would be conceived at the times of the year when they have a better chance of survival.
According to Dr Cagnacci, a normal sex ratio is 511 males and 489 females out of every 1,000 conceptions that yield a live birth.
The British view of race was often as subtle and complicated as their view of status and the two hierarchies sometimes intersected in their conceptions of hereditary aristocracy and "breeding", for example.
