superstructure
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Despite our lack of information about the superstructures of the nearby tombs (lining the Via Labicana and adjacent to Eurysaces' monument), we know that Eurysaces' tomb had to contend with at least one of his neighbors.
a structure built on top of something else.
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So the matrix is the ideological apparatus, the artifice of reification - the 'superstructure' , seen from the outside to be the evidence of the alienation of man's labour-power.
Paired with the Labors of Adam and Eve in the British Library and Huntington Library Speculum books is an image of Noah's ark, a bargelike vessel with a basilican 'superstructure' beneath a dove with outstretched wings.
A socialist critic who focuses on the reciprocity between infrastructure and 'superstructure' would argue back that modes of cultural representation cannot but be saturated with the material base of the society.
They consist of a human or animal face attached to a large, bulging 'superstructure' or headdress that is painted with elaborate patterns.
Their chief worth, however, is the influence they had on Islamic architecture in terms of short squat pillars used to support the 'superstructure' above.
a distinction between foundations and 'superstructure', basic and non-basic beliefs, is central
Like the boats in all these paintings, it's just a hull, without masts or any kind of 'superstructure' , adrift and empty, a kind of ghost ship.
Due to the size, weight and cost of large buildings, testing the substructure's ability to carry the 'superstructure' , becomes imperative.
An engineer who designs the 'superstructure' for a bridge or the frame of an automobile invests time in understanding how things will break.
In temples and palaces it may be used as a free-standing figure or be incorporated into columns supporting the roof or, for smaller-scale figures, appear as a support or 'superstructure' for lidded wooden bowls.
There are three distinct parts to the building, the most visible being an articulated tented 'superstructure' of taut fabric and cables and bristling masts.
The British style is more careful and thorough, with the foundation work in sources revealed as proudly as any part of the 'superstructure' .
In plan, the 'superstructure' of the building consists of three zones.
How far do the demands of the capitalist economy shape the political and cultural 'superstructure' ?
The main 'superstructure' frame is formed from reinforced concrete with post-tensioned, ribbed slab floors.
The building comprises 18 'superstructure' stories and two basement levels.
The base, below ground level, is in-situ concrete, but the 'superstructure' above the cross-aisle is prefabricated.
Here the physical presence of the motorway is unavoidable as its 'superstructure' looms over the building, but sail-like uplighters bounce and diffuse light up through the tall volume.
The 4,600t ship will have five decks and two 'superstructures' .
In one of his many well-observed insights Marx pointed out that 'superstructural' ideas often have a tendency to lag behind developments in the economic base of any society under examination.
Globalisation is thus often defined as a relationship between material capability and the 'superstructural' institutionalisation that has been constructed to realise this capability.
It's possible to precast columns, column caps (also called bent caps), girders and beams, decks, complete bridge sub- or 'superstructures' , complete bridge spans, and complete bridges.
Brick 'superstructures' would no longer do, and it soon became the norm to have double walls with all-stone inner and outer faces, bonded by a rubble fill, with increasingly elaborate defensive structures around the gates.
Behind all the 'superstructures' of purchase, market, and private property, there is always the mechanism of social prestation which must be recognized in our choice, our accumulation, our manipulation and our consumption of objects.
Up close are jungle-top toucans, and perhaps a sloth; further away, ship 'superstructures' appear to part the steaming foliage as they glide slowly along the canal.
Despite our lack of information about the 'superstructures' of the nearby tombs (lining the Via Labicana and adjacent to Eurysaces' monument), we know that Eurysaces' tomb had to contend with at least one of his neighbors.
This shows an apparently round open-air structure with a 'superstructural' hut like that at the Swan, but artistic distortion of proportion (especially height) limits this picture's usefulness concerning the Theatre's size.
The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society - the real foundation, on which rise legal and political 'superstructures' and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness.
Add to this the fact that 'superstructures' can be altered or replaced entirely, allowing a mask to be updated while keeping the same substructure.
Certainly the dismantling of received 'superstructures' of knowledge, driven by the engines of critique and systematic skepticism, suggests that these days almost anything goes.
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