generative force

At its best, one gets the sense of generative force born from such intense intellectual, moral and religious pressure.

The only risk I registered was exactly where it belonged: as a generative force in the art itself.

This has given the work a powerfully generative force: offering to help Sulkowicz with her burden is not just a gesture of simple human empathy, like helping a mother struggling with a stroller on the subway stairs, but has become a means of protesting sexual violence and expressing solidarity with those who have experienced it.

What is extraordinary here is the daringness of writers to name the elephant in the room — the improbability of Walt meeting Jane’s dad, the improbability of a plane crash caused by Walt’s decision to let Jane die, the “astronomical” odds of it all — and to turn that elephant into the generative force, the underlying philosophy of the entire show: the non-randomness of events, the interconnected relations of moral choices, the “complete stranger” who turns out to be within the reach of your harm.

The bull, as already seen, was a prominent emblem of generative force, the Bacchus Zagreus, or Tauriformis.