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latter. For the first time in history, living beings had been patented. Only three years later, the so-called OncoMouse, a little mouse modified in the laboratories of Harvard University to develop a tumour at a pre-established stage of its life, became the first animal to be patented. It was the
would remain with him all his life. Between 1949 and and 1965 he was addicted to drugs and led a tormented life. All the same, he obtained a BA in physiology and biology from Queen’s College in Oxford in 1954. Four years later, in 1958, he obtained an MA, a BM and a BS (bachelor of surgery) from
. Other interesting animals figuring in the book are the silky ant eater (Cyclops didactylis), the three-toed sloth, and leaf-cutting ants. The anthropological work con- cerned the Jicaques, a tribe that had kept its original way of life largely intact. At the end of the expedition the Hagens visited
Press. Description: viii, 608. Malaise, René Edmond (1892–1978) Sjöberg 2010 ■ H. Vardal, A. Taeger, ‘The life of René Malaise: from the wild east to a sunken island’, Zootaxa 3127 (2011), p. 38–52. The Swedish entomologist, author and scientif- ic explorer René Edmond Malaise was born on 29
. In the former instance, the underlying paradox afflicting (non-fatalistic) historicism surely remains in force. The general role of temporal perspectivity as it relates to the project of authentically living a reflectively lived life will, in effect, still be asserted from a ‘God’s-eye’ perspective
-compression” effect means that today we seem to have much less time to do the things we need or want to do. This contributes a manic quality to much of life: increased stress at work and in school, sleep deprivation, up to half the KronoScope 2:1 (2002) © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2002 U.S. work population
longer be integrated into its “his- tory.” I will call this “dead time,” a sort of time-zone suspended between a living present and the ‘actual’ past. Dead time is also nestled between life and death as it partakes of a life-in-death and death-in-life. Unlike images of death, it does not betoken any sort
future. This is not at all a question of physical time, but rather of the time of life itself ( temps du vivant) , “living-time” is the expression I propose to name it, which in mind precedes the differentiation between physical or objective time and time consciously experienced. It seems to me that
security squad [armed with] M-16s” are herding the same civilians meant to be living in a city resurgent in fortune into waiting vehicles (Bacigalupi 2016, 123). In a world where corporate and political ideologies have become utterly irreconcilable with social reality, life has come to be starkly defined
/absence, Fabre’s piece literally makes “room for the dead” (156); through “a celebration of change” (162) corresponding to the butterfly’s life cycle, the piece emerges as a Requiem for both the living and the dead, for those who remember and for those who are remembered. The voice of the orphan is