What at length boils to the surface is both expected and unexpected, albeit with a too-contemporary explication of issues of sexual identity.
But Xu Bing's narrative, using an exclusively visual language, could be published anywhere, without translation or explication; anyone with experience in contemporary life anyone who has internalized the icons and logos of modernity, from smiley faces to transit maps to menus can understand it.
And audiences respond to Mr. Oundjian's festivals (Mozart as well as contemporary music) and to his onstage commentary and explications.
Samuels has suggested that this is the best explication of the concept of innateness in contemporary neo-nativist psychology.
His essays on contemporary architects are less about making critical judgments than about explication, exegesis, and provocation.
Essays on contemporary architecture that are less about making critical judgments than about explication, exegesis, and provocation.
Later in the day, groups of panelists, including the Guardian Project's Harlo Holmes and Storefront for Art and Architecture's Eva Franch i Gilabert, offered highly specific explications of the ways issues of race and gender intersect with technology in contemporary surveillance states.
It should probably not be surprising that Leibniz's explication of the nature of the distinction between necessary and contingent truths can be translated into the terms of contemporary possible-worlds semantics.
No explication necessary.
