ANIMAL REVOLT AND LINES OF FLIGHT IN LUCRETIUS, BOOK FIVE

Ramus ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 133-154
Author(s):  
Richard Hutchins
Keyword(s):  
Animal Life ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
De Rerum Natura ◽  
Linear Trajectory ◽  
Classical Author ◽  
Linear Rise ◽  
History Of

Lucretius is the first classical author to have written a history of animal resistance. In a fifty-line passage from Book Five of De rerum natura, the ‘animal revolt’ (5.1297–349), Lucretius describes the rise of empire and its instrumentalization of animals for war. When the animals are led onto the battlefield, however, they swerve against their ‘armed teachers and savage masters’ (1311). The linear rise of empire, built on the abuse of animals’ bodies, is deterritorialized by those same animal bodies in a chaotic scene that takes place on what Monica Gale has called a ‘cosmic battlefield’. This paper follows Lucretius’ account in Book Five of De rerum natura of the linear rise of empire, its increasing capture of animal life, and the rupture of empire's linear trajectory by a clinamen, or ‘swerve’, of rebel animals. I compare Lucretius’ account of the rise of empire to what Deleuze and Guattari call a ‘molar line’, and the swerve of rebel animals to Deleuze and Guattari's notion of the ‘line of flight’.

Phanerozoic trends in the global geographic disparity of marine biotas

Paleobiology ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 612-630 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnold I. Miller ◽  
Devin P. Buick ◽  
Katherine V. Bulinski ◽  
Chad A. Ferguson ◽  
Austin J. W. Hendy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Geographic Distance ◽  
Marine Biodiversity ◽  
Marine Animal ◽  
Animal Life ◽  
Data Repositories ◽  
Geographic Disparity ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Level ◽  
History Of

Previous analyses of the history of Phanerozoic marine biodiversity suggested that the post-Paleozoic increase observed at the family level and below was caused, in part, by an increase in global provinciality associated with the breakup of Pangea. Efforts to characterize the Phanerozoic history of provinciality, however, have been compromised by interval-to-interval variations in the methods and standards used by researchers to calibrate the number of provinces. With the development of comprehensive, occurrence-based data repositories such as the Paleobiology Database (PaleoDB), it is now possible to analyze directly the degree of global compositional disparity as a function of geographic distance (geo-disparity) and changes thereof throughout the history of marine animal life. Here, we present a protocol for assessing the Phanerozoic history of geo-disparity, and we apply it to stratigraphic bins arrayed throughout the Phanerozoic for which data were accessed from the PaleoDB. Our analyses provide no indication of a secular Phanerozoic increase in geo-disparity. Furthermore, fundamental characteristics of geo-disparity may have changed from era to era in concert with changes to marine venues, although these patterns will require further scrutiny in future investigations.

On the Ancient History of the Direction of the Motion Aftereffect

Perception ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 25 (10) ◽  
pp. 1177-1187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frans A J Verstraten
Keyword(s):  
Visual Illusion ◽  
Motion Aftereffect ◽  
First Person ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
De Rerum Natura ◽  
History Of ◽  
Correct Direction

Scientists agree that Aristotle in his Parva Naturalia was the first to report a visual illusion known as the motion aftereffect (MAE). But there is less consensus as to who was the first to report the direction of the MAE. According to some, Aristotle only described the phenomenon without saying anything about its direction. Others have defended the position that Aristotle did report a direction, but the wrong one. Therefore, it has been suggested that Lucretius in his poem De Rerum Natura was the first to report the correct direction of the MAE. In this paper it is shown why and how it can be inferred that Aristotle did not write about the direction of the MAE, only about its occurrence. It is also argued that it is indeed likely that Lucretius was the first person to report the direction of the MAE. However, this is not as obvious as it might appear at first sight.

Justine Frank: Author, object, event, ghost

Maska ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (200) ◽  
pp. 122-131
Author(s):  
Katja Čičigoj
Keyword(s):  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Cultural Field ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Formal Procedures

The article analyses the workings of the Justine Frank phenomenon – a forgotten Jewish surrealist whose oeuvre was discovered in the early 2000s by the contemporary Israeli artist Roee Rosen. It discusses the question of the mutual creation of author functions of the critic and the artist, the researcher and the object of research, the predecessors and successors on the field of art. A reflection of Justine Frank’s ambivalent position in the history of (Israeli and European) art is concluded with a description of a proposed pragmatical approach to such art projects. Based on Massumi, Deleuze and Guattari, this approach does not focus on the creation, influences, formal procedures and produced meanings, but on the effects of artworks and events in the framework of social, political and cultural field into which they enter.

Geographic Dialectics?

2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (11) ◽  
pp. 2603-2612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Sheppard
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Complexity Theory ◽  
Critical Geography ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Dialectical Reasoning ◽  
History Of

As radical geography, inflected by Marx, has transformed into critical geography, influenced by poststructuralism and feminism, dialectical reasoning has come under attack from some poststructural geographers. Their construction of dialectics as inconsistent with poststructural thinking, difference, and assemblages is based, however, on a Hegelian conception of the dialectic. This Hegelian imaginary reflects the intellectual history of radical and/or critical anglophone geography. Yet, dialectics can be read in a non-Hegelian, much less totalizing and ideological, and more geographical way. This broader reading opens up space for considering parallels between dialectics, the assemblages of Deleuze and Guattari, and aspects of complexity theory.

scholarly journals Reviews and syntheses: the first records of deep-sea fauna – a correction and discussion

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 6453-6462 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Etter ◽  
H. Hess
Keyword(s):  
Deep Sea ◽  
Animal Life ◽  
Benthic Animal ◽  
Baffin Bay ◽  
Deep Waters ◽  
History Of ◽  
Deep Sea Fauna ◽  
Water Depths ◽  
John Ross

Abstract. The soundings in deep waters of Baffin Bay, together with the recovery of a basket star by John Ross in 1818, was a milestone in the history of deep-sea research. Although the alleged water depths of up to 1950 m were by far not reached, these were nevertheless the first soundings in deep bathyal (to perhaps uppermost abyssal) depths. Furthermore, the recovery of a benthic animal proved that animal life existed at great depths. Yet this was not the first published record of deep-sea fauna as it is often portrayed. This merit goes to accidental catches of the stalked crinoid Cenocrinus asterius that were recovered with fishing lines from upper bathyal environments near Antillean islands. In addition, the description of several deep-sea fishes considerably predated the John Ross episode.

scholarly journals Reception of "De Rerum Natura" in the Poetry of Madame Deshoulières

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-95
Author(s):  
Lacey Giles
Keyword(s):  
Political Context ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
De Rerum Natura ◽  
History Of

This paper explores Antoinette Du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières’ philosophical poetry in context.  The presentation of Epicureanism in various works, including Imitation de Lucrèce, her maximes, and idylls is analysed, considering both format and content choices and focusing on the ways in which both were used subversively. Her reception of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura, as well as her social and political context inform this analysis. The challenges and limitations of producing work from the interstices of several conflicting identities are included to posit her case as an example of why women are under-represented in the history of philosophy.

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