Transnational imperatives driving new conceptions of cultural modernism encompass, therefore, not just the ethical and political demands of postcolonial literary emancipation but also, I am wagering, merely alternative epistemes and methodologies which are differently inflected, at either the perpetrating or receiving end, by the violent histories of global imperialism.
At the same time, our intention was not primarily to give a precise picture of the future, but rather to come to an understanding of the divergent ideas and conceptions driving future development, thus necessitating a longer time horizon.
This suggests that if emergent properties are not to be epiphenomenal or explanatorily irrelevant, we need to introduce novel causal roles for emergent properties, which is a key motivation driving both alternative conceptions of ontological emergence discussed in the next subsection.
At about the same time, a preventive ideology - based on the untested assumption that serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia were simply exacerbations of mild disturbances rather than fundamentally different types of problems - became a dominant theme driving professional and public conceptions.
These oppressive conventions saturated modern society and remain a driving force in dominant conceptions of disability that exist today.
Or rather, what were once the margins are destined to become the driving force behind a new conception of mobile computing: neither a luxury nor a delicate toy, but a given feature of every single adult life.
The Romans had certain wonderful inventions -- aqueducts and under-floor heating, for instance -- but had no interest in, or conception of, inventing for profit and driving the spread of the invention.
I'm not about to agree with their conceptions of safe versus dangerous driving.
The popular conception of Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra would probably have him driving one of the great American cars of the 1930s, '40s or '50s.
The opinion that the child had the right to know about his/her conception was for many informants the basis for sharing information and served as a driving force in information-sharing.
