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Autoimmunity and the Irony of Self-Definition: Translating the Economy of Terror
Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 2014 In order to avoid descending into the state of nature the sovereign takes over the appearance of the state of nature itself – the animality that is primordial to the constitution of this legal framework, the animality of primitive force.
Samrat Sengupta
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Confused Robots and Incompetent Humans in Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Bigbug (2022)
Alternative FrancophoneJean-Pierre Jeunet has been working on the presentation of struggling human bodies, in his films such as Delicatessen (1991), La Cité des enfants perdus/The City of Lost Children (1995), and most recently, Bigbug (2022).
Hyunjin Kim
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Tracing the Animal in the Human
Humanimalia, 2015 Christopher Peterson. Bestial Traces: Race, Sexuality, Animality. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013. 208 pp. $75 hc, $24 pb.
Chloe Diamond-Lenow
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Pangeas, 2020 This article analyses the relationship between humans and animals, and more importantly between humans and their animality. Concretely, this project proposes an ecocritical reading of fin de siècle gothic fiction, as it provides insight on the ...
Aurora Murga Aroca
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Time after time – circadian clocks through the lens of oscillator theory
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Oscillator theory bridges physics and circadian biology. Damped oscillators require external drivers, while limit cycles emerge from delayed feedback and nonlinearities. Coupling enables tissue‐level coherence, and entrainment aligns internal clocks with environmental cues.
Marta del Olmo +2 more
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Cryptochrome and PAS/LOV proteins play intricate roles in circadian clocks where they act as both sensors and mediators of protein–protein interactions. Their ubiquitous presence in signaling networks has positioned them as targets for small‐molecule therapeutics. This review provides a structural introduction to these protein families.
Eric D. Brinckman +2 more
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HUMAN NATURE OR HUMANITY: BETWEEN GENES AND VALUES [PDF]
, 2012 We are within nature and culture, conditioned simultaneously by genes and meanings. This form of our self-understanding is the result of fundamental modifications that happened in modern philosophical anthropology and of the impact of the natural Science.
Tuchańska, Barbara
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Finding Ferality in the Anthropocene: Marie Darrieussecq’s “My Mother Told Me Monsters Do Not Exist” [PDF]
, 2016 What will it take to undomesticate the world—to begin to loosen humanity’s tight grasp on the planet’s spaces, structures, resources, and populations? Marie Darrieussecq’s short story “My Mother Told Me Monsters Do Not Exist” describes the intrusion of ...
Sophia Booth Magnone
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Bone metastasis in prostate cancer (PCa) patients is a clinical hurdle due to the poor understanding of the supportive bone microenvironment. Here, we identify stearoyl‐CoA desaturase (SCD) as a tumor‐promoting enzyme and potential therapeutic target in bone metastatic PCa.
Alexis Wilson +7 more
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Humanities, 2017 Kornél Mundruczó’s film Fehér isten/White God (2014) portrays the human decreed options of mixed breed, abandoned dogs in the streets of Budapest in order to encourage its viewers to rethink their relationship with dogs particularly and animals in ...
Lesley C. Pleasant
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