Subjectivity Quotes - Page 6

• In writing of Indian culture, I am highly conscious of my own subjectivity; arguably, there is more than one Indian culture, and certainly more than one view of Indian culture.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Writing, Views, Culture

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• Rather than protecting music as a sublimely meaningless activity that has managed to escape social signification, I insist on treating it as a medium that participates in social formation by influencing the ways we perceive our feelings, our bodies, our desires, our very subjectivities - even if it does so surreptitiously, without most of us knowning how. It is too important a cultural force to be shrouded by mystified notions of Romantic transcendence.

  Susan McClary

  Feelings, Important, Desire

  "Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology". Book by Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood and Gary C. Thomas, 1994.

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• New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.

  Jonathan Dee

  New York, Synthesis, Personal History

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• The structures of neoliberal violence have put the vocabulary of democracy on life support, and one consequence is that subjectivity and education are no longer the lifelines of critical forms of individual and social agency.

  Henry Giroux

  Vocabulary, Agency, Support

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Whatever subjectivity we are going to talk about is going to be in an intersubjectivity of human beings that have a certain nature and have certain needs to be met and have to figure out how exactly to do that.

  William G. Kline

  Needs, Figures, Mets

  Source: www.stephenhicks.org

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• Behaviors and lifestyles that are classified as "normal" rarely get so generalized, public perception of heterosexual relationships, for instance, or of the "white" experience, allow for the infinite variety of experiences that exist under such headings, but people love to reduce the vastness of individuality and subjectivity within marginalized types of experience.

  Melissa Febos

  White, People, Perception

  Interview with Rebecca Keith, therumpus.net. April 2, 2010.

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• Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?

  Franz Grillparzer

  Eye, Jewels, Perception

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• It is clear that everybody interested in science must be interested in world 3 objects. A physical scientist, to start with, may be interested mainly in world 1 objects--say crystals and X-rays. But very soon he must realize how much depends on our interpretation of the facts, that is, on our theories, and so on world 3 objects. Similarly, a historian of science, or a philosopher interested in science must be largely a student of world 3 objects.

  Karl Popper

  Rays, World, May

  Karl Popper (2005). “Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography”, p.213, Routledge

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• I think of moral beauty as what is the good and the just - terms perhaps best defined by their opposite: evil. Evil is the willingness to do damage to the other; its maximal expression is murder, but it includes a great deal of subtle and not-so-subtle injuries as it advances to that extreme. Evil acts reduce the other to an object, a being to its component parts, and obliterate subjectivity. Evil's breeding ground is a lack of empathy.

  C.E. Morgan

  Thinking, Expression, Opposites

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• When can our brain's innate objectivity begin to flourish? Only when our inappropriate Self-centered subjectivity begins to dissolve.

  James H. Austin

  Self, Objectivity, Brain

  James H. Austin (2011). “Meditating Selflessly: Practical Neural Zen”, p.12, MIT Press

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• Film is the only technology that allows us to share subjectivity with someone else.

  Jason Silva

  Technology, Film, Share

  "Tribeca Film Festival: Filmmaker and Futurist Jason Silva On How Humans Are Hardwired for Story and Cinema". Interview with Paula Bernstein, www.indiewire.com. April 21, 2014.

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• The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Heart, Men, Inspire

  Anna Julia Cooper (1990). “A Voice From the South”, p.70, Oxford University Press

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• It does no one any good to say their novel sucks if you don't have an idea how to make it better, how to approach it from different angles and make it work. It's obviously a subjective process, right? But the thing about subjectivity, at least in the classroom, is that you're banking on your professor's subjectivity to be both personal and professional - that he or she has some sense about the world outside the workshop.

  Tod Goldberg

  Ideas, Doe, Different

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The nature of my work is my subjectivity meshed with other people's subjectivity. So there's a correspondence with that... Even if you write about me, it will reflect on you; everything is a kind of weird collaboration.

  Tino Sehgal

  Writing, People, Collaboration

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• Humor of all types is notoriously subjective. That's true not only between different people but even within an individual at different times. This subjectivity is often masked when your in a group because laughter is contagious.

  Robert Mankoff

  Laughter, People, Groups

  "Ask the Author Live: Robert Mankoff on the Cartoon Issue". The New Yorker Interview, www.newyorker.com. October 21, 2011.

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• I think it's time to admit that our writing is guided by the technology we use as much as it is by our own subjectivity.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Writing, Technology, Thinking

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Sexual harassment is complex, subtle, and highly subjective.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Subtle, Harassment, Complexes

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!”, Pocket

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• One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.

  Paulo Freire

  Objectivity

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.36, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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