Rereading de Man's Readings

Odyssee funebre de l'homosexuel his? Rereading Tony Duvert's Interdit de sejour

Bibliography for example, only lists a handful of studies on him. Despite Duvert's shon-li ed critical acclaim during the rwenty years of '·notoriety' he might have enjoyed as a literary figure from 1969 to 1989 (Benderson, 'Politics" 5), the relative paucity of critical engagement since then with Du ert's ceuvre "clandestine' (Simonin 423). 'honni ou oublie" (GobiUe 30), can probably also be e...

Rereading Ludwig Boltzmann

Ludwig Boltzmann is one of the first physicists who brought probability and statistical considerations into physics. Particularly famous is his statistical explanation of the second law of thermodynamics. However, Boltzmann’s ideas on the relationship between the thermodynamical properties of macroscopic bodies and their microscopic mechanical constitution, and the role of probability in this r...

Further Readings Further Readings

“Baby Bollinger” (first name: Allen) was born to Anna and Allen Bollinger at the German-American Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The seven-pound Baby Bollinger was diagnosed with multiple physical anomalies and became the first victim in a string of public infanticides of disabled babies committed by the head of staff at the hospital, Dr. Harry Haiselden. The doctor declared Baby Bollinger a “mo...

Rereading Einstein on Radiation

Albert Einstein tinha um talento genial para extrair teoria revolucionária de simples considerações: do postulado de uma velocidade universal, ele criou a relatividade especial; do prinćıpio da equivalência, ele criou a relatividade geral; de argumentos elementares baseados em estat́ıstica, ele descobriu os quanta de energia. Seu artigo de 1905 sobre a quantização do campo de radiação (frequente...

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