While many of Vickery's contemporaries were driven to country club lessons or flown to tournaments, Vickery rode 12 hours on a bus from Miami to Atlanta.
"So much of the contemporary world is driven by abstract processes," he adds.
Both in his art and his writing, Perry has long been critical of the extent to which contemporary art is driven by money and celebrity.
Similarly, just because contemporary climate change is driven by CO2 does not mean that the sun could not have caused earlier episodes of climate change.
Does he ever feel sceptical about the high-end world of contemporary art, which is driven by fashion and money?
The fundamental analysis of convection through porous media with temperature dependent viscosity is driven by several contemporary engineering applications from the cooling of electronic devices to porous journal bearings and is important for studying the variations in constitutive properties.
Contemporary right-wing politics, by contrast, is driven largely by the unexamined prejudices and anxieties of (primarily) white men.
From restaurant menus to the fuel-efficient brands of contemporary European cars being driven on the Germanic-inspired streets, Swakopmund offers a unique snapshot of German colonial Africa.
And I thought that contemporary audience impatience was driven by an immature need for instant gratification, when all the while it was actually sophistication.
Contemporary AD research has been driven forward through the use of advanced molecular biology tools.
