Since that career-making project, her gimlet-eyed, starkly lyrical meditations on what constitutes ideas of difference have earned her a MacArthur "genius" grant, a Medal of Arts from the U.S. State Department, and a survey of thirty years' worth of work that opens this week at the Guggenheim.
Power and interests are constituted by ideas and norms.
An important theme in studies of enclosure and resource access in Southeast Asian hinges on the concept of the 'political forest', a particular constellation of power constituted by ideas, practices and institutions that seek to regulate peoples' access to resources, providing recognition and legitimacy to some, whilst excluding and criminalizing others.
Now, you might argue with West's contention that his ventures – musical, fashion or otherwise – constitute "beautiful ideas", but there's little denying the world would be a poorer place, artistically, without mavericks such as CK and West prepared to risk financial hardship in order to achieve their creative dreams.
Diverse opinions exist as to what constitutes trendy ideas versus more meaningful research paradigms; the challenge is to evaluate this by some objective means.
Spinoza's parallelism holds that the mind is constituted by its idea of the body; we become aware of the body, however, largely through its changes.
They can explain that Bruno's cosmological ideas constituted a rather minor part of the heretical charges made against him.
The exchange affords a glimpse of a time in New York when ideas constituted, indeed, a gladiatorial "arena in which to act" — in a sense of individual, spontaneous performance that channelled history in the making.
In adulthood, such things constitute my idea of perfect happiness and I have her to thank for it.
Partly because of his likeability, and partly also because of his identification with Englishness (though his work helped to constitute the idea of Englishness with which we associate him), there is a danger that Ravilious's art could be dismissed as cosy or parochial.
