20th-century French thinkers such as Claude Levi-Strauss and Roland Barthes analysed the structures of "signification", and from his early works onwards Twombly too sought the very essence of human culture as he explored parallels between the marks painters make and the rudiments of written language.
He furthermore explored parallels between Reservoir Dogs and Glengarry Glen Ross.
Other authors have explored parallels between rural maternity reconfigurations and community responses to large-scale supermarket developments, with the intention of better understanding the wider context of health services, and public expectations of them [ 19].
Even before Copenhagen, global leaders were exploring parallel tracks.
And even though, as a standalone work, it's too awkward and tenuous to succeed in a theatre, it takes on a convincing resonance in this festival context – lodged among works exploring parallel ideas, among artists making parallel journeys.
They explore parallel universes and weird worlds – sending back postcards from the dark recesses of their souls whose handwriting we can't always read, but in which we catch haunting resonances of our own experience.
It's the first ever showing of this work in Australia, and it's programmed with Frame of Mind, a new piece by Bonachela himself that explores parallel themes of beauty, transience and loss, set to music by Bryce Dessner (guitarist with US indie band the National) in a recording by the Kronos Quartet.
Cameron does or doesn't travel to New Orleans to see a trumpeter who comes off as a kind of oracle, get duped by a religious cult, explore parallel universes and realize that along the way, "It's not all sand castles and ninjas".
It will thus be important to continue exploring parallel negotiating on tracks like the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, originally convened by President George W. Bush and consisting of 17 big nations that account for nearly four-fifths of all emissions; and the Group of 20 industrial nations, which has put climate change high on its agenda.
