Mistaken Gifts after Pitt v Holt

Matthew Holt

Bringing to light the difference between birth and nation, the refugee causes the secret presupposition of the political domain—bare life—to appear for an instant within that domain. In this sense, the refugee is truly ‘the man of rights,’ as Arendt suggests, the first and only real appearance of rights outside the fiction of the citizen that always covers them over. Yet this is precisely what ...

052-058 Pitt

Introduction and background Aflatoxins are a hazard in foods because they are potent carcinogens, capable of causing cancer in nearly all animal species studied. Aflatoxins are also acute, chronic and genotoxic poisons (1). In addition, recent evidence suggests strongly that aflatoxins can be immunosuppressive (2). The primary sources of aflatoxins are the common fungi Aspergillus flavus and th...

War Gifts

"We beg to call special attention to tlie following communique :? "The Indian Council of the St, John's Ambulance Association have noticed in th<i press that the proceeds of various entertainments, race meetings, etc., have been given to what is called " The Red Cross SocietyThe Council desire to point out that the Indian Branch of the St. John's Ambulance Association is the only Ambulance Soci...

Nuptial gifts

Figure 1. Nuptial gifts of insects. An array of nuptial gifts provided by male insects. Top left: during mating, a female dance fly (Diptera: Empididae) feeds upon a dead insect provided by her mate (Photo: Rob Knell). Top right: a male scorpionfly (Mecoptera: Panorpodidae) secretes a white salivary mass that will be consumed by a female during mating (Photo: Arp Kruithof). Bottom left: after m...

The Wiener-Pitt tauberian theorem