For my whole time in Cartagena I can't help seeing the close juxtaposition of the physical and the abstract, the body and the spirit that constitutes so much of Márquez's magic realism, echoed in the city about me again and again.
The story spew that constitutes so much of the cinematic churn as well as the episodic series — in other words, audiovisual creation in which the audiovisual is a means, not an end — is matched by a wider and wilder range of invention that, nonetheless, bears the burden of its belatedness and brings an inescapable air of loss and untimeliness to its most forward-looking creations.
While for domestic political reasons we have been unable to have a serious national discussion about this new underlying reality, our increasing disinclination to use the military capability that constitutes so much of our identity in the world has become inherently destabilizing.
I do not, you may be pleased to read, propose to parade before you a list of those exercises in evanescence, self-parody, and general ickiness that constitute so much that congregates under the label of American fiction these days.
But the movie was always a bit rough, even when it was brand new, disdaining the kind of slickness that constitutes so much film craft today.
Can his mutiny really constitute a moral treachery when so much of it seemed to happen to him?
Conversation is Turkle's organizing principle because so much of what constitutes humanity is threatened when we replace it with electronic communication.
However, what is so often missed in this overly used meme by The Right is how this feeble defense of Walmart's employment practices serves to put the lie to so much of what constitutes today's version of conservative doctrine.
It should be demonstrated in the way the company conducts business and engages with and reports to stakeholders". Ah, "stakeholders" -- it is the definition of whom they constitute for business that is behind so much of the change of thinking around long-term value creation.
So much of what constitutes the post-modernist production that's so groovy right now maybe goes back to Duchamp.
