"I found the president very conscious of the destruction and the bloodshed that the Lebanese are suffering," he said.
Mr. Schlossberg shows a series of text works: rectangular brass sheets with cut-out Jasper Johns-style letters spelling out portentous phrases like "being conscious becomes our destruction" or "awake through every wave".
As he puts it, "citizens have become acutely conscious of environmental destruction, entrenched poverty, health catastrophes, human-rights abuses, failing education systems and escalating violence," and more of them "have the freedom, time, wealth, health, exposure, social mobility and confidence" to do something about it.
The villain of Othello is not remotely mentally ill; like Loughner, he is evil, a calculating killer, who is fully conscious of the destruction he causes.
The implication is that our human gift of imagining can't exist without the hatred, anger and aggressiveness that lead to such human behaviours as warfare, conscious cruelty and deliberate destruction.
In 1974 a researcher called Larry Weiskrantz coined the term 'blindsight' for the phenomenon of patients who were still able to respond to visual stimuli despite losing all conscious vision due to destruction of the visual cortex.
Moab was the consequence of Lot's incestuous relationship with one of his descendant-conscious daughters following the destruction of Sodom.
As lower ore grades start to be mined, we must be more and more conscious of waste and habitat destruction in order to minimize the environmental footprint of such decisions.
"His entire conscious life, he worked not for creation but for destruction".
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), the deliberate destruction or alteration of body tissue without conscious suicidal intent and for purposes not socially sanctioned [ 1], is a transdiagnostic behaviour that is used to cope with intense emotions and psychological distress.
