These hieroglyphs (arch, spiral, circle, and S curve) made Blake's temporal and spatial forms literally congruent with the structure of human perception, what Mitchell would later rediscover under the rubric of Lacan's "scopic" and "vocative" drives, the parallel sensory-semiotic circuits of ear and mouth, eye and hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Formalist, or W.J.T. Mitchell as Romantic Dinosaur] Reference
Rome ruins sacred plains scopic drives sewers sound space student projects subterranean. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-08-01] Reference
Perhaps you can record your scopic drive through this digitized world, as one would with Google Earth. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
This makes me wonder when the scopic regime of photography of traditional subjects was established in Japan. From Wordnik.com. [Photos of Japan, 1951] Reference
Then a westward, eastward, northbound, southbound scopic drive all through the night in a drone of mouse clicks. From Wordnik.com. [To Icarus] Reference
To listen in on what you hear, it has run a line up to the auditory canal-a submicro-scopic thread, I assure you. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
Developing the historical relationship between optics, the picturesque, and the camera de-naturalizes the Cartesian scopic regime. From Wordnik.com. [The Picturesque and the Kodak Moment] Reference
For it was not the Hurricane that was guilty of these deaths after all, but a fault in the gyro - scopic horizon, which was quickly corrected. From Wordnik.com. [The HurricaneStory]
The trick is how to give the molecules -- which stand packed together like nano-scopic blades of grass -- room to maneuver enough to do the limbo. From Wordnik.com. [Sci-Fi War Uniforms?] Reference
He made micro - scopic observations of particles trapped from the air and showed that there were many bodies capable of living growth floating in it. From Wordnik.com. [GENETIC CONTINUITY] Reference
It'll be interesting perusing through these fantasy itineraries, going on late-night scopic drives through CLUIrome and CLUIlondon and CLUIlosangeles. From Wordnik.com. [Landscape challenge #5] Reference
If you'd like to go on a scopic drive through the Tierras Bajas, download this placemark from the Google Earth Community and then fire up Google Earth. From Wordnik.com. [Self-erasing Bolivia] Reference
If blanketing UK cities with a thick scopic fog of CCTV cameras weren't enough, the countryside may soon find itself placed under similar heavy surveillance. From Wordnik.com. [Agro-veillance] Reference
Continuing our scopic drive through the American West, we take a brief stop at the US Army Dugway Proving Ground, the nation's premier biological and chemical defense testing facility. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-11-01] Reference
Leeuwen - hoek, although he performed no critical experiments to test his belief, strongly denied that any of the micro - scopic protozoans and bacteria he had discovered arose spontaneously. From Wordnik.com. [GENETIC CONTINUITY] Reference
In physics, inferred entities like electrons and constructs like the photon are reified in macro - scopic models, presumably because one cannot “un - derstand” or “comprehend” them otherwise. From Wordnik.com. [BIOLOGICAL MODELS] Reference
I had planned on including a third image, that of Michael Heizer's City, to yesterday's entry but could not find one particular quote, which I was reminded of during my "scopic drive" through the West, in its entirety to accompany the image. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-06-01] Reference
The tension between representation by rules of the picturesque and a rebellion against the "tyranny of the eye" both evident in Wordsworth's work is likewise part of our own frustration with the position we occupy as subjects under a pervasive scopic regime. From Wordnik.com. [Landscapes and Kodak] Reference
Even in his earliest printed work, his Oration in Praise of the New Philosophy, delivered when he was still a stu - dent at Oxford, Addison had shown the impact upon his imagination of a greatly expanded telescopic and micro - scopic “Nature” in the new universe. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
If its teleology is postcolonial, its material is dependent on the technologies of empire – English as a world language, and a picture of history that rests on the scopic regimes of British world power, institutionalised in the global information gathering and broadcasting resources of the BBC. From Wordnik.com. [In the Picture: Orwell, India and the BBC] Reference
Hanson missed most of the preseason following minor arthro scopic knee surgery. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The poem is further beautified by a combination of scopic techniques, all used to powerful effect. From Wordnik.com. [The Pirate Bay - Blog] Reference
Large boulders are common, consisting of a pure while aggregate of micro - scopic crystals of carbonate of lime. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
It is India's first stereo-scopic digital 3D film and it has the same technical crew that has worked in movies like. From Wordnik.com. [Daily News & Analysis] Reference
Was there any ingenious plot, any hide-and-seek course of action, which might be detected by a careful tele scopic watch?. From Wordnik.com. [Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900)] Reference
That means, you describe the theories at microscopic scale, move to macroscopic scale through an intermediate meso-scopic scale. From Wordnik.com. [iMechanica - Comments] Reference
It is one of the oldest monasteries in Eastern Europe and home to almost a hundred monuments and museums: from Scythian gold treasures to a micro-scopic flea in golden horse-shoes. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
/From Nature's womb the plant or insect swims,/And buds or breathes, with micro - scopic limbs.”. From Wordnik.com. [SPONTANEOUS GENERATION] Reference
I can’t wait to hear the world premiere of a new piano work by the kaleido-scopic French composer Marc-André Dalbavie, which Yefim Bronfman will play along with chamber works by Shostakovich (May 4). From Wordnik.com. [Mark Morris Debuts at the Met; Don���t Miss Voigt, Bronfman, Pirates] Reference
Labels: land art, scopic drives. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-06-01] Reference
Labels: cartography, scopic drives. From Wordnik.com. [Google Guerrilla] Reference
The exaltation of a scopic … drive. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-06-01] Reference
Labels: scopic drives. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-08-01] Reference
Patient eligi - scopic level. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Visual angle, Monocular Movement, Parallax, Stereo - scopic vision, etc. From Wordnik.com. [SPACE] Reference
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