Heterochrony
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More than 150 years ago, in 1866, Ernst Haeckel published a book in two volumes called Generelle Morphologie der Organismen (General Morphology of Organisms) in the first volume of which he formulated his biogenetic law, famously stating... more
prologue, intro and afterword of book Publication date: October 20, 2016 Abstract: Restrictive border protection policies directed toward managing the flow of refugees coming into neoliberal democracies (and out of failing nation-states)... more
Sinn und Unsinn der Rede von einem ›Zeitregime‹ Anmerkung zum Problem der Zeit in den Techniken des Selbst, den Techniken des Regierens und den Regimen des Wahrsprechens I. In den Diskussionen über Zeit werden oft Missverständnisse... more
In his paper “The Return to Philology,” Paul de Man insists that philology and theory should not be in conflict, but should, rather, mutually enhance one another. This claim that the turn to theory is also a return to philology is... more
The carcharodontosaurid theropod Mapusaurus roseae (Cenomanian of Neuque´n Province, Argentina) is represented by at least seven disarticulated individuals from a monospecific bonebed, all of different sizes and presumably different... more
Enacting and Re-inventing Identities is based on the surprising underrepresentation of non-Western artists on the international art scene. This situation can be partially founded in a tendency for Western contemporary art being associated... more
The first Atelocerata were machilid-like insects descended from Palaeocar-idacea (Malacostraca Syncarida) via neoteny, homeosis and gamoheterotopy. In these littoral hoppers, the five posterior segments of the malacostracan thorax were... more
The idea that the work of art has the capacity to break temporal borders or create its own time zone is troubling to chronological models of history that rely on linear notions of causality, provenance and origins. The challenge is to... more
As is well known, the Indian English novel "Animal's People" was shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize and is the winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writer's Prize: Best Book From Europe & South Asia. In many details the novel... more
This essay examines the disruption of linear time in experimental forms of “history painting” as represented by Dierk Schmidt’s SIEV-X—On a Case of Intensified Refugee Politics (2001-2005). It analyses how the aesthetics of... more
Morphological (including ultrastructural) and developmental characters utilized in recent literature are critically reviewed as the basis to reassess the phylogenetic relationships of gastropods. The purpose of this paper is to ...
Resumen: Los conceptos de alteridad y mismidad, presentes en la filosofía desde sus orígenes, se han convertido en debate relevante desde la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Cuestiones como la representación del Otro, la autorreferencialidad o... more
When powered by modernist clockwork, the big clock of human civilisation and the time of the planet – the clock that seems to preside over scenes of an ultimate fate, an absolute break and temporal reset, and even over omega-point... more
Much of the focus of palaeobiological studies in the last century can be summarized as seeking to understand how evolutionary lineages occupy new regions of morphological, ecological, and geographic space, or are excluded from those... more
The taxonomy of Hydractinia, Stylactaria and Podocoryna is discussed and the three genera are merged into Hydractinia since their diagnostic characters are liable to lead to polyphyly and paraphyly, due to repeated episodes of medusa... more
In the article the author reflects on the meaning of politics in a new-materialist framework, she especially concentrates on two political dimentions – space and time. With reference to that the author develops the concept of politics of... more
The viviparous cockroach, Diploptera punctata, has been a valuable model organism for studies of the regulation of reproduction by juvenile hormone (JH) in insects. As a result of its truly viviparous mode of reproduction, precise... more