Much of Being and Time develops an existential interpretation of our modes of being including, famously, our being-toward-death.
The procession of creatures in the order of conceptional reality moves through three modes of being (specific character, ideal form, and image) culminating in beings that are specific in character, and are images, but without the proper character of individuation.
For Heidegger, there are two dominant modes of being human: authenticity and inauthenticity.
Brando gave American actors new modes of being racked with ambiguities.
God has two modes of being, as cause and as product.
I don't mean different styles or stars, but different modes of being — a renewed sense of purpose.
In "Lines Written in Early Spring", nature and mankind are linked but stand for contrasting modes of being.
Thus the "animalled" may simply be a marker, like the Voudun in Gibson's work, of the strangeness of postmodern modes of being.
"Whether the set of extremely positive posthuman modes of being would include some kind of dissolved bouillon, there is some uncertainty," he said.
His early pieces incorporated non-actors, and he is still intent on teaching others about the theatrical value of unexpectedly simple modes of being and doing.
As I remember it, he proposed that our psychic life embraces a number of fundamental modes of being, each of which can be outwardly expressed by the use of archetypes.
