This dubious rationale inspired in me a long chain of questions: What exactly happens when visitors encounter such provocative representations of human origins in museums?
The poem's stark images of the cruel, calculating, violent, and exploitative nature of the slave trade, articulated in a lyrical, ironic multi-vocal form, makes it among the most provocative representations of slavery in African-American poetry.
"In a society where media is the most persuasive force shaping cultural norms," as Writer/Director Jennifer Siebel Newsom describes in her provocative documentary, "Miss Representation," "the collective message that our young women and men overwhelmingly receive is that a woman's value and power lie in her youth, beauty, and sexuality, and not in her capacity as a leader".
The provocation proved provocative.
In her long, provocative essay on the photographic representation of suffering and cruelty, from the Civil War to the Nazi death camps, from Bosnia to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Sontag reflects on how we process such images, the limits of shock and the motives of those behind the cameras.
This paper presents experimental results conducted on six ideation components (Provocative Stimuli, Suspend Judgment, Flexible Representation, Frame of Reference Shifting, Incubation, and Example Exposure).
It is often provocative to watch Gay pursue modernist representations of the self.
In light of this, philosophers may be wont to diagnose some constructionist talk as a careless (or even an intentionally provocative) error of talking about the object of construction using a representation when one should be mentioning it (thereby expressing a view about the referent of the representation rather than the representation itself).
Where we limit the objects of constructionist claims to representations (such as theories), the claims cease to be particularly metaphysically provocative though detailed constructionist accounts of how certain representations came to be selected may still teach us much about science (e.g. Latour and Woolgar 1979l Collins and Pinch 2012).
A number of commentators have noted that many provocative constructionist claims are, in the first instance, claims that some sort of representation is constructed (e.g. Andreasen 1998, Hacking 1999, Haslanger 2012, Mallon 2004).
"This is not a pipe" calls the very obviousness of representation into question, and so points toward the mysteries concealed beneath the system of representation we usually take for granted.[73] The effect of Heidegger's provocative claim about Van Gogh's painting of "A Pair of Shoes" is similar.
