...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...

... is true of the animal world applies with modification even in the vege­ table world. Plants carry on a modified respiration and cir­ culation, they assimilate food, their wounds are healed, their diseases, even cancer itself, are analogous to the diseases of man and animals; they are susceptible...

... is the air! Respiration is carried on unconsciously, and exist­ ence becomes a positive pleasure in such a climate. Who that has seen Naples, can wonder that her children are idle and luxuriously disposed? To gaze on the cloudless sky and blue Mediterranean, in an atmosphere so pure and balmy is enough...

... the desire and power of sympathy with the past. And yet he had little patience with those who tried to keep ancient institutions alive by artificial respiration when it was better that they should perish. He had no sympathy with those like Pater who tried to erect a religion on aesthetic feeling. He saw...

... and physi­ ologists are not deterred from their studies of respiration just because noth­ ing is more natural than breathing. The aim of their studies is not to enable ii8 The South Atlantic Quarterly people to breathe for we all do that as easily as Monsieur Jourdain spoke prose but to observe the processes...

...; it is a process that occurs in the body. We should no more argue about the distinction of mind and body than about the distinction of say, digestion and body or respiration and body. Science is not only something that has altered common sense and the cultural climate. This is a mutual influence, a two-way street...

..., and laminations), and many features of neural processing and integration are localized within these discrete structures. Specific areas of the brain deal with vision, speech, hearing, smell, memory, respiration, balance, and emotions, to name a few. Each of these specialized areas has a distinctive architecture...

.... In America the Harvard physiologist Cannon traced the phenomena of fear, rage, and pain to the effects on the nerves and muscles of adrenin a secretion let into the blood stream from the adrenal glands which stimulates the heart and respiration, stops all digestion, contracts blood' vessels, expands...

... Prousts Search for Lost Time 53 apparence, un grain de cette essence nous est donne a respirer, nous savons que c est cela qui est beau. The chapter of Contre Sainte-Beuve called Le Balzac de M. de Guermantes reappears, in all its substance and color, in Le cote de Guermantes. As has been said, le Marquis...

... that at greater speed blur to produce a smooth image of illness rather than one that exposes the impermanent reality of the ill person. It is an anthropo- logical image dictated by respiration, dictated by the individual rhythms of life that shape our ideas of what life is and how we are able...

... the cessation of the beating heart to the electrical silence of the brain, thus inaugurating the uneasy spectacle of the warm and respirated corpse awaiting further sur- gical excavation. With the advent of immortal stem cell lines, the develop- ment of artificial gametes from skin cells, cloning...

... seriously inflamed, at the same time that his daughter, Josephine, suffered from pneumonia. When the inflammation spread to the other lung, newspapers all over the world carried the news on their front pages. As the medical bulletins changed from serious condi­ tion to alarmingly difficult respiration...

... with “Stop poison” painted on them; an old, large corrugated water tank with a placard attached stating, “Warning radiation”; and, at the turnoff to the swamp, a large sign on which is written, “Danger, asbestos, cancers and lung disease hazard, authorized personnel only, respirators and protective...

..., the contemporary significance of the cyborg is founded on the great ease with which one can become such an entity these days (need­ ing only to have a pacemaker or an artificial limb, or to be dependent on a dialysis machine or respirator),6 but this is problematic when linked to Deleuze s theorization ofdesiring...

..., creationist organizations perfected their lobbying techniques and strived to formulate foolproof equal time or balanced treatment legislation. By 1979 Paul Ellwanger, a Roman Catholic and a respiration therapist who headed the creationist organization in South 1976): 103-05; Henry M. Morris, That You...

... that the ecological history of Earth’s surface—particularly the distribution and composition of its respir- ing vegetative taxa and bacteria—has significant impacts on atmospheric conditions and climate.2 Thus a strong argument can be made that biologi- cal agents are always simultaneously acting as geophysical...

... power; as now by respiration & expiration exactly together they lift a heavy man from the ground by the little fin­ ger only, & without a sense of weight. But this Union is to be reached by a reverse of the methods they use. It is spiritual and must not be actualized. The Union is only perfect when all...