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The Afterlife of a Text in Walter Benjamin’s Theory of Translation

Walter Benjamin proposes that a work of art does not belong to a specific time; rather it is transient. A work of art has a 'temporal effect' which is considered as the 'context' of the work in which it has been written. The 'context' cannot be reconstructed to be the same as what once existed;it is constructed.Translator's job is to recreate the life of the original work from one language to a...

Studies in Borreliae II. Some Immunologic, Biochemical and Physical Properties of the Antigenic Components of Borrelia turicatae

Towards living machines

Mechanical tortoise: A replica of W. Grey Walter’s 1951 robot Machina Speculatrix, incorporating several original parts, but without the perspex shell responsible for the tortoise nickname, built by Ian Horsfield and Owen Holland in the Bristol Robotics Lab. (Photo: Alan Winfield.) W. Grey Walter (1910–1977), a US-born neurophysiologist and EEG specialist at Bristol, UK, made important contribu...

Electro-encephalography in Cases of Sub-cortical Tumour.

57 The Wernicke Syndrome A. Meyer 66 The Effect of Percussion of Nerve D. Denny-Brown and Charles Brenner 76 The Electro-Encephalographic Localization of Intra-Cranial Neoplasms W. A. Cobb 96 The Electroencephalogram in Traumatic Epilepsy Denis WilUiams 103 The Relation between the Itffects of the Blood Sugar Levels and Hyperventilation on the Electroencephalogram 112 Mollie E. Heppenstali The ...

Electro-Encephalography: An Aid to Diagnosis

The attitude of the medical practitioner to pliysiolog} is necessarily utilitarian and his familiarity with the various branches of the subject varies with their usefulness, not, as a cynic would suggest, with their simplicity. It is not surprising, therefore, that electrophysiology, though attracting great academic attention, is the least familiar of laboratory studies, for until recently the ...