“One of the functions of art is to offer a more desirable reality - a model, as it were, of another style of existence with its own pace and its own cultural reference.” ArtRealityPurposeExistenceStyleOffersModelsArt IsFunctionPaceDesirable Author:Peter Schmidt
“Unlike Hegel's progress model of history, which moves by stages, each containing its own logic of growth and decline, the economic model develops as the simple function of one money-variable over time, with a long-term trend which increases monotonically.” LongMovingGrowthTermSimpleProgressEconomicStageModelsLogicFunctionIncreaseLong TermTrendsDeclineVariablesContainingHegelEconomic Models Book:Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky
“if networks of women are formed, they should be job related and task related rather than female-concerns related. Personal networks for sociability in the context of a work organization would tend to promote the image of women contained in the temperamental model - that companies must compensate for women's deficiencies and bring them together for support because they could not make it on their own. But job-related task forces serve the social-psychological functions while reinforcing a more positive image of women.” IfsShouldTogetherJobsForceSocialCompanySupportModelsConcernFemaleTasksOrganizationFunctionPsychologicalRelatedDeficiencySociabilityTask ForcesPositive Image Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter
“No longer do we accept the 'sublimation model' according to which 'the function of art is to sublimate or transform experience, raising it from ordinary to extraordinary, from commonplace to unique, from low to high'.” ArtPoetryAcceptingUniqueModelsLowsOrdinaryArt IsFunctionExtraordinaryCommonplace Author:Rosalind E. Krauss
“Our father has an even more important function than modeling manhood for us. He is also the authority to let us relax the requirements of the masculine model: if our father accepts us, then that declares us masculine enough to join the company of men. We, in effect, have our diploma in masculinity and can go on to develop other skills.” IfsMenImportantEnoughFatherCompanyAcceptingEffectsGoes OnSkillsAuthorityModelsFunctionRelaxRequirementsManhoodMasculinityMasculineModelingOur FatherDiploma Author:Frank Pittman
“A lot of the diagnosis and monitoring functions will be done through little devices - smartphones - by the patient with computer assistance. So it's a real big change in the model of how we render healthcare.” LittlesRealDoneBigsChangeComputerModelsFunctionPatientDevicesHealthcareAssistanceDiagnosisSmartphonesMonitoringBig Changes Author:Eric Topol
“The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose an experiential model.” ModelsFunctionPhotographMetaphorCeasePropose Author:Thomas Struth
“Since the idea that modification of synaptic function can provide a basis for memory arose shortly after the first anatomical description of the synapse a number of models (Hebb 1949 . . Hayek 1952 . . Kendel 1981) have been proposed in which various cognitive activities are represented by combinations of the firing patterns of individual neurons.” FirstsHas BeensIdeasIndividualMemoriesNumbersActivityModelsFunctionBasesPatternsVariousCombinationDescriptionCognitiveFiringNeuronsModificationHayek Author:Gerald Edelman