Nutritionists and the diet-conscious have made instant ramen a noodle non grata.
And that is instant, self-conscious, critical modernism, an artist's reflection on race and power relations and American archetypes, the kind of thing that runs from Snow and Baker and Louis Armstrong through visual artists like Kara Walker and Glenn Ligon.
Throughout the series, he constructs a virtual gallery, library, and phonothèque of forebears, references, inspirations, and delights, an instant classicism of conscious pleasures and under-recognized legacies.
In addition, the kind of stream of conscious management, in which text and instant messaging replaces meetings, becomes more widespread (See "How Youth and Chat are Killing the Meeting").
"It's really lucky to have an instant signature but it was never conscious," she says.
And the perception of scandal and corruption in the sport, while not new, is taken more seriously by image-conscious corporations in a world of blogs and instant news and opinion.
Each assemblage is conscious of just one object, arises for a brief instant and then falls away, followed by another citta combination that picks up a different object by means of its particular associated mental factors.
The Automaticity they've developed (the instant recall of the basic functions) frees up their conscious minds to focus on higher-levels of strategy.
Mobile phone video of three uniformed officers breaking into self-conscious moves on Monday evening, surrounded by cheering crowds became an instant YouTube hit.
And in an image-conscious culture, hidden cameras in the hands of fellow citizens with instant access to a global audience may provoke more outrage than government or corporate surveillance cameras whose images are not shared with the world.
Of course not, but it does mean that when we do take those days, we can know it is sponsored by a conscious proactive choice that is made from a place of authentic power rather than instant gratification or lethargy.
