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Opacity

Mark Richard · Oxford University Press eBooks · 2009

Abstract There seems to be a lot of opacity in our language. Quotation is opaque. The modal idioms are apparently opaque. Propositional attitude ascriptions seem opaque, as do the environments created by verbs such as ‘seeks’ and ‘fears’. Opacity raises a number of issues — first and foremost, whether there is such a thing. This article concentrates on the question of whether there is any opacity to be found in natural language, examining various reasons one might have for denying that apparent opacity is genuine.

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SpringerReference · 2011

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Angela Vanhaelen · Penn State University Press eBooks · 2025

As Dutch merchants became drivers of the transatlantic slavery business in the seventeenth century, Dutch art increasingly used Blackness to signal slavery and servitude. In this brilliant and pathbreaking work, Angela Vanhaelen proposes new ways of looking at Dutch paintings that do not equate Blackness with enslavement. Vanhaelen reframes the conversation on Netherlandish art by placing seventeenth-century domestic scenes and portraits in dialogue with images of trading forts, markets, and plantations in West Africa and Brazil. She argues that Dutch paintings depicting enslaved Black Africans—for example, Frans Hals’s Family Group in a Landscape— not only obscure information about the institution of slavery but fail to capture the resistance and dissent of people who did not conform to the anti-Black world created by Dutch art. Opacity leads readers to grapple with difficult and complex questions: How do we reconcile images of peace and prosperity with the horror of the slave trade? How do we teach imagery of Black people as enslaved without reinforcing anti-Black racism? Can we interpret dehumanizing imagery in ways that consider the complexities of enslavement? Refusing to view Dutch pictures on their own terms, Opacity recognizes the historical persistence of non-sovereign positions, anticolonial settlements, non-patriarchal homeplaces, open-ended forms of religion and culture, as well as the possibilities of oppositional modes of world-making. This important, thought-provoking book will be essential reading for students and scholars of Black studies and early modern European art history as well as general readers looking for a fresh approach to Dutch art of the period.

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National Cancer Institute · Definitions · 2020

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Sylvia Ekström · Encyclopedia of Astrobiology · 2015

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Martin H. Weik · 2000

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Charles Angoff · Phylon (1960-) · 1969

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Robert Willim · Policy Press eBooks · 2024

There can be different orientations of Mundania, such as in-between, beyond and beneath. There can also be different properties. One such property pertains to practices and consequences of concealment. Complex systems, organizations and technologies are hard to oversee and to fully see through. Powerful stakeholders, governments, corporations or other conglomerates can hide their businesses for various reasons. Sometimes justly and fairly, sometimes not. There are also intrinsic trade-offs and distributions between simplicity and complexity, as we saw in the previous chapter, ‘Beneath’. Trade-offs between ignorance and knowledge. Between transparency and opacity.

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