A software man, representing an anti-war group, meets with engineers - technology seems to be the only idea functioning today.
The New Yorker, June 10 , 1967P. 34 A software man, representing an anti-war group, meets with engineers - technology seems to be the only idea functioning today.
By Donald Barthelme The New Yorker, June 10 , 1967P. 34 A software man, representing an anti-war group, meets with engineers - technology seems to be the only idea functioning today.
Social constructionists often begin by noticing that an idea is functioning socially to support an unjust institution and then consider how that idea functions within a broader framework of ideas and concepts to structure our experience: does it illegitimately or inappropriately privilege one set of phenomena over another?
Sennett's hinge idea functions as a foil to one that Saskia Sassen touches upon in her introductory essay, but leaves frustratingly unexplored: that a city's physicality, its buildings, are its attempt at permanence.
The most influential player in the world from 2008 to 2012, Xavi has defined an era like no other footballer, a waddling, pear-shaped state-of-the-art sporting genius, whose preternatural talents – brutal, exhausting possession-football – made the whole shebang of styles and eras and ideas function at its basic level.
The questions that ultimately come from this election are can the new coalition of Republicans coexist with its leadership, and can those who ran on the absoluteness of their ideas function in an atmosphere where compromise is essential to avoid gridlock?
When controlling for non-clinical variables, severity, depression, suicidal ideas, functioning and longstanding illnesses were associated with formal rather than informal help-seeking.
"I firmly believe that the idea of function should be redefined to include immaterial uses," said Mr. Boym.
Until recently the idea of function had been solidly embedded in the negative view we had of modernism and its inclination toward disciplined reform.
