What I am remembering, insists Butler, are the experiences of a substance, namely, the same substance that constitutes me now.
In making me an object for his projects, the other alienates me from myself, displaces me from the subject position (the position from which the world is defined in its meaning and value) and constitutes me as something.
These qualitative events get to be like something for me because they (partially) constitute me—I am the bundle to which they belong.
Properly to understand myself in and through the capabilities and vulnerabilities that constitute me, I must unmask the many temptations I have to deny our mutuality.
If my grasp of a mental concept is exclusively constituted by me experiencing something in a certain way, then it is impossible for me to conceive of how that very same concept can be applied to somebody else, given that I cannot experience somebody else's mental states.
Calcutta was an antithesis of both the suburban and the natural; it constituted, for me, during those visits to my uncle's house, my first, and at the time only, encounter with urban modernity.
Ultimately I hope that I can keep my identity, friend list, photographs, videos and everything else that constitutes the (de Centralized Me at any service provider that I trust (meaning I trust them to protect that data, but never go against my wishes and try to keep it to themselves if that isn't what I want), and just tell sites like Facebook and everyone else where to grab it.
Overall, our results suggest that ME-ICA constitutes a versatile, powerful approach for advanced denoising of task-based fMRI, not just resting-state data.
"That constitutes a play to me," he said.
This was a cynical take, for sure, but it stuck with me: what constitutes success after paying for thousands of hours of tutoring at $100-plus 100-plus
A consumer-goods brand that aimed its marketing at its most fervent fans would lose sales: a typical Coke drinker buys one or two bottles a year.Forget me notWhat constitutes brand equity, Mr Sharp contends, is "physical and mental availability", by which he means the opportunity for consumers to find products in shops and their propensity to think of the brand when shopping.
