"Faces of Evil in Modern Fantasy"

The Fantasy of Modern Life

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

Two Faces of Evil: Cancer and Neurodegeneration

13 October 2010. Cancer and neurodegenerative diseases—what do they have in common, apart from the distress they cause to sufferers and their families? The answers that emerged from the discussion at this year’s Fondation IPSEN Colloquium on Alzheimer’s Disease lie in the complex signaling mechanisms that control the life and death of cells. The understanding of these pathways, gained mainly fr...

Bread of dreams: food and fantasy in early modern Europe

Bread, deliberately flavoured or adulterated by herbs and seeds of cannabis and poppy, mouldy or accidentally made from grain contaminated by a fungus from which LSD can be derived, consumed in conditions of chronic malnutrition and hunger, was responsible for individual mental aberration and collective delirium. This is one of the themes of Piero Camporesi's Bread of dreams. In this very start...

Two Faces of Evil: Cancer and Neurodegeneration - ReadingSample

Neurons of the central nervous system (CNS) leave the mitotic cycle when they leave the ventricular zone during embryonic and early postnatal development. Normally, they will never re-enter the cell cycle for the rest of the life of the organism. This rule is now known to be broken in many types of neurodegenerative disease. In these situations, nerve cells at risk for death have greatly elevat...