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In Swanberg's world, material realities are indistinguishable from symbols, practicalities inseparable from fantasies, social identities connected to the movies in one's mind.

At the annual conference of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) in September, Zwelinzima Vavi, Cosatu's boss, warned that "different lifestyles and material realities are creating a leadership which is not fully in tune with what members are facing".

The first answer is, of course, that the material reality is being rapidly shaped by the ideology, as recent debates about welfare in the United States demonstrate.

The membrane between our chaotic inner lives and external material reality is permeable in Murdoch — she writes of the U.F.O.

Bowie's last album of new material, Reality, was released in 2003 and after touring the songs he largely withdrew from the public eye, concentrating on his family life as he lived in New York.

For Critchley, material reality is a "trauma" that literature must "navigate", allowing "things to be in their irreducible materiality" – something he has explored himself in a series of experimental writings with McCarthy and the INS.

If our evidence for the truth of propositions about extra-mental material reality is always restricted to mental content, content immediately before the mind, how can we ever be certain that the extra-mental reality is not other than we represent it as being?

In fact the physical material reality, isn't really physical at all.

And this material reality was also reflected in attitudes towards marriage from early on.

By a "world of shadows," Eddington meant that material reality is no longer the hardy stuff we once thought it to be.

The writer Viet Thanh Nguyen, in the Los Angeles Times, contextualized the debate in terms of material realities: It is possible to write about others not like oneself, if one understands that this is not simply an act of culture and free speech, but one that is enmeshed in a complicated, painful history of ownership and division.