...Francisco A. Ortega Duke University Press 2007 Francisco A. Ortega ​Between Midnight and Dawn: The Disabling ​ ​of History and the Impoverishment of Utopia ​ ​in Ricardo Piglia’s Artificial Respiration We can only do his book justice if we bear in mind...

... been given a mathematical form. Among the less mathematized disci­ plines, those currently taking advantage of virtual environments are psychology and bi­ ology (Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life), although other fields such as economics and linguistics may soon begin to profit from the new...

... in the process. They have laboriously combined the amino acids together in long chains and have thus pro­ duced what may be regarded as very simple proteins. They have also produced artificial living cells and microorganisms using inor­ ganic chemicals. They often find nonliving matter acting as if alive...

... Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Glossary artificial life Man-made systems whose behavior mimics that of living systems. Most artificial life research to date involves computerprogrammed entities that sleep, eat, breed, and evolve. This re­ search attempts to produce...

... Quarterly 99:2/3 / sheet 106 of 353 of projection. Both are artificial: light first of all, not merely because it brings out all the makeup on the actors’ faces, but because it exists in its own right. Light in the theater...

... poems, Andrew Marvell s To His Coy Mistress. Prufrock has two orientations, which we may call the real world and the artificial world, although the terms are not perfectly satis­ factory. The artificial world is the one in which he and his lady live, sipping coffee, talking of novels, and generally...

..., nevertheless, an important part in the lyric poetry of our language. Some of them have been commonly employed for serious poetry of a high order; some of them are more characteristi­ cally associated with light and frivolous verse. Often, in the more artificial forms, it would seem that half the poet s delight...

... of computers to specu­ late on how history would be interpreted by an artificial intelligence tracing its own lineage.2 But interest in the nature of the human mind has by no means displaced The South Atlantic Quarterly 92:4, Fall 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press. This essay is part of a longer...

.... It is true that the relation of the European War to the third cycle of democracy is recognized by Mr. White only as an artificial force which halted that cycle, rather than as constituting a basic factor in it. It is not impossible, however, to view this third war as fundamental in its relation to the cycles...

... artificial, or even, supposing all artificial causes of differ­ ences to be withdrawn, what natural character would be revealed. However great the moral and intellectual differences between men and women might be, even if they be apparently ineradicable, the evidence for their being natural was only negative...

..., it would function by itself through natural laws. Economic laws were said to be natural, whereas political laws were looked upon as artificial. In its essence the doctrine of laissez faire is close to anarchy: if we let things alone, free of established author­ ity and interference, they will run smoothly...

... about persons into poetry he had to invent a world, a series of incidents, and a character at once himself and not himself. The inference is that his own life lacked emotional contacts, and he was forced to supply such persons and occasions from imagination^ hence, his creation of an artificial world...

... of the recent legislation providing for work­ men s compensation. Several definite steps in the treatment of injured men can be traced. First the disability is removed, as completely as med­ ical science makes its possible, by treatment and the provision 268 The South Atlantic Quarterly of artificial limbs...

... Terram quae Comparatur ei (Upon earth there is not his like). Most of Hobbes’s metaphors regarding the Leviathan posit a mechanism- organism. The State, according to Hobbes, is an ‘‘Artificial Animal with Sovereignty the equivalent of its ‘‘Artificiall Soul The Magistrates are its ‘‘artificiall...

... individual rights. Due process applies to aliens as well as to citizens, to artificial persons or corporations as well as to natural persons. It protects the individual s substantive rights, as well as his procedural right. In plain language, as the Court has said, not only must the procedure be fair...

... as evidence that the ass actual or artificial was never employed to advance the cause of drama during the lifetime of Shaks­ pere. As a matter of fact, various instances are recorded where he frisked before the brains and beauty of Elizabethan England, and sometimes he was known to curvet in the very presence...

.... The tendency of cultural critique to demonize tech- nical innovation as life-threatening artificiality can be found in Rousseau and in Romanti- cism, where it is based on assumptions of lost immediacy. Inversely...

... times their natural rate under battery lamps; the lactation of cows is artificially increased by BST; and toma­ toes, like a great deal else, are planted in soil which has been artificially fertilized so that its fallow time is bypassed, with the plants themselves genetically recombined in order...

... a convenient time is found for the funeral, which often means months, or even years. Preserving the body may be either a natural or an artificial process. On the one hand preservation may come as a result of the dryness of the air, or of special properties in the earth. Usually, however, it is a deliberate...

... white men; it means one thing before the introduction of the artificial humidifier in textile mills, the perfection of house cooling systems, and the isola­ tion of the malaria germ, and a very different thing after these artificial elements have been introduced. Topography, situs, and distance take...