Neuroelectrical Activity and Sexual Stimluation: Deconstructing a Tower of Babel

Author(s):  
James G. Pfaus
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Author(s):  
Jesse Schotter

The first chapter of Hieroglyphic Modernisms exposes the complex history of Western misconceptions of Egyptian writing from antiquity to the present. Hieroglyphs bridge the gap between modern technologies and the ancient past, looking forward to the rise of new media and backward to the dispersal of languages in the mythical moment of the Tower of Babel. The contradictory ways in which hieroglyphs were interpreted in the West come to shape the differing ways that modernist writers and filmmakers understood the relationship between writing, film, and other new media. On the one hand, poets like Ezra Pound and film theorists like Vachel Lindsay and Sergei Eisenstein use the visual languages of China and of Egypt as a more primal or direct alternative to written words. But Freud, Proust, and the later Eisenstein conversely emphasize the phonetic qualities of Egyptian writing, its similarity to alphabetical scripts. The chapter concludes by arguing that even avant-garde invocations of hieroglyphics depend on narrative form through an examination of Hollis Frampton’s experimental film Zorns Lemma.


2020 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 587-606 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nitzan Aframian ◽  
Avigdor Eldar

Quorum sensing is a process in which bacteria secrete and sense a diffusible molecule, thereby enabling bacterial groups to coordinate their behavior in a density-dependent manner. Quorum sensing has evolved multiple times independently, utilizing different molecular pathways and signaling molecules. A common theme among many quorum-sensing families is their wide range of signaling diversity—different variants within a family code for different signal molecules with a cognate receptor specific to each variant. This pattern of vast allelic polymorphism raises several questions—How do different signaling variants interact with one another? How is this diversity maintained? And how did it come to exist in the first place? Here we argue that social interactions between signaling variants can explain the emergence and persistence of signaling diversity throughout evolution. Finally, we extend the discussion to include cases where multiple diverse systems work in concert in a single bacterium.


1991 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael L. Nelson

2000 ◽  
Vol 160 (21) ◽  
pp. 3193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Opher Caspi ◽  
Iris R. Bell ◽  
David Rychener ◽  
Tracy W. Gaudet ◽  
Andrew T. Weil
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2005 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Kampf ◽  
P. Goroncy-Bermes ◽  
A. Fraise ◽  
M. Rotter

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