If language shapes consciousness and consciousness determines what we experience as reality, then to toy with words in nonstandard ways might open heretofore closed doors of perception.
"Mother Tongue," which had its première in 2005, addresses the power of language to shape consciousness, and what is lost when languages die away.
This place is forming the foundation of our son's dreams and shaping his consciousness every moment, and it will remain with him long after he has grown up and moved away.
Of the O. J. Simpson trial he writes, "I hoped for a guilty judgment, both because I am convinced that Simpson is the murderer and because I wanted to avoid precisely the kind of vapid yet hideous discourse now shaping public consciousness".
The aversion to war in Europe since 1945 has been a strong force in shaping European consciousness and, with the dark legacy of the Holocaust, it has made possible a Europeanisation of memory in which older memories provide a pattern for new memories.
As David Abram points out in his case for the role of the senses in shaping relational consciousness "phenomena can be hidden not just within the past or the future, but also in the very thickness of the present, itself – that there is an enigmatic, hidden dimension at the very heart of the sensible present, into which phenomena may withdraw and out of which they continually emerge [32, p. 222].
Alongside anime, computer games, and cyberpunk, the creative technologist draws inspiration from the post-90s internet generation and the way that new technologies are shaping social consciousness.
However useful, the large range of interventions proposed on an international level (WHO 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010) must also account for culture (Holdsworth et al. 2007), i.e. 'the shaping of consciousness around food and physical activity' (Lang and Rayner 2007) and the readiness of a population to accept policy initiatives.
