The pendulum has swung too far.

Simulation of a two part pendulum

Tom Shannon The painter and the pendulum

I gather this isn't your first pendulum.

In the words of Michel Foucault, it is a technology of the self.

Fortunately, the pendulum has begun to swing back toward cooperation.

One view is that Russian politics is like a pendulum.

So the evolution of this I gather this isn't your first pendulum.

I understand why the pendulum has swung so heavily the other way.

That slack labor market is powering this swing of the protectionist pendulum.

Yet today the pendulum has arguably swung too far in the opposite direction.

It was like a pendulum... and I could feel it swinging my way.

Why should the lamp or the house be an art object, but not our life? as Michel Foucault puts it.

You're using your built in dynamics, the physics of your body, just like a pendulum.

But the problem is, as Foucault points out, that every technology of the self has a technology of domination as its flip side.

In moments of extreme fear, the pendulum of attitudes swings toward the security end of that spectrum.

But it would be unfortunate indeed, dangerous if the pendulum now swung back to old fashioned nationalism.

When you these wild pendulum swings, because people are scrambling for answers, and it just doesn't work.

But with the pendulum, it allows me to manifest these invisible forces that are holding the magnets up.

Thirty years after the Reagan Thatcher revolution, the ideological pendulum has begun to swing in the opposite direction.

But with the pendulum, it allows me to manifest these invisible forces that are holding the magnets up.

I slam the door behind me, climb up, go past this place where I see a pendulum ticking.

An explosion just 100 metres away violently shook our seven storey building, making it rock like a crazed pendulum.

For a time, the pendulum of political opinion may have swung too far against the nation state and its role.

A political pendulum of reform and reaction, and of populist and pragmatic cabinets, weakened the republic for most of its history.

Unless the swing of the pendulum in the US can be stopped, the rest of this decade will be as bad.

By the end of the 1980s, the pendulum had swung perhaps too far towards a belief in the efficacy of markets.

But there is a real danger that the pendulum is beginning to swing back, leading to a reversal of that liberalization process.

In 1857, Foucault invented the polarizer which bears his name, and in the succeeding year devised a method of testing the mirror of a reflecting telescope to determine its shape.

A Cholera pandemic devastated Europe between 1829 and 1851, and was first fought by the use of what Foucault called social medicine , which focused on flux, circulation of air, location of cemeteries, etc.

In his study of truth telling in ancient Greece, the philosopher Michel Foucault pointed out that the act of truth telling cannot be reduced to citizens learning something that they did not know before.

Each of these beautiful paintings, are they images in and of themselves, or are they records of a physical event called the pendulum approaching the canvas?

This modern clock relied on the swing of a pendulum or the vibration of a quartz crystal, which was far more accurate than sand or candles.

Each of these beautiful paintings, are they images in and of themselves, or are they records of a physical event called the pendulum approaching the canvas?

The clock was converted to pendulum and anchor escapement in the 17th century, and was installed in London's Science Museum in 1884, where it continues to operate.

The changed approach to economic policy in the 1980s had affected development strategies the Trade and Development Board felt, however, that the pendulum had swung too far.

Or frantically tapping away at the keyboard of any available computer I could find... often inside a building shaking like a crazed pendulum as explosions went off all around.

Drawing particularly from the theories of Michel Foucault and performativity in western academia, and the more diverse influences of postcolonial theory, there has been a concerted effort to deconstruct the cultural in order to make apparent the various power relations.

Can anything halt this swing of the pendulum? Absent a sudden, immediate, and strong boost in US domestic demand that turns into a durable boom with rapid employment growth, probably not.

Led by the developed countries, the pendulum began to swing in the 1980 s. Once viewed as part of the problem, FDI became part of the solution to economic growth and development.

For, if the Orange Revolution demonstrated one thing, it is that Ukraine s politics are not those of the pendulum, swinging predictably between opposing forces that agree on the fundamental rules of democracy.

Like the peoples of other United Nations Members who have fought for their freedom, thousands of Nicaraguans have died for it, victims of a perverse pendulum that swung from authoritarianism to totalitarianism.

In the decade after September 11, 2001, the pendulum of public sentiment swung too far to the security pole but it has begun to swing back in the absence of major new terrorist attacks.

And when a person gets in car that drunk and a car oscillates at great deal there's a little pendulum that swings up and back and that will pull the car over the side...

During this period, patients may remove the sling to practice passive pendulum Range of Motion (ROM) exercises to reduce atrophy in the elbow and shoulder, but they are minimized to 15 20 degrees off vertical.