Temporary occlusion of the inferior lacrimal punctum and canaliculi of dogs with n-butyl-cyanoacrylate and 2-octyl-cyanoacrylate

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Gedanken über das Punctum saliens im Musikleben, -Lehren und -Schaffen /

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Disjecta: Material representations of an Indigenous and immigrant cultural legacy

This practice-led research explores family history and the on-going influence of cultural legacy on the individual and the artist. Homi Bhabha theorises that identity vacillates through society, shifting and changing form to create disjunctive historical spaces – spaces of slippage that allow for new narratives and understandings to occur. Using the notion of disjuncture that became apparent in this research, the practice outcomes seek to visualise my families' sometimes-occulted history at the intersection of euro-centric and Indigenous ideologies. Researched archival materials, government documents, interviews, collected objects and family photo-albums became primary source data for studio-based explorations. Scanners, glitch apps and photo-hacking were used to navigate through these materials, providing opportunities for photographic punctum and creating metaphors for the connections and disconnections that shape our sense of self.

Entre la "flânerie" y el ostracismo: la resignificación subjetiva de la ciudad en Fabián Casas y Martín Gambarotta

Desde los estudios pioneros de Walter Benjamín dedicados a la imagen del flâneur en la poesía de Baudelaire, la experiencia del sujeto poético y su íntima reconstrucción afectiva de la ciudad constituyen un índice significativo para aproximarnos a la experiencia de la vida moderna. En este artículo, nos interesa revisar cuáles son las particularidades que distinguen esta experiencia en un corpus de poesía argentina reciente -los libros Punctum y Refrito, de Martín Gambarotta, y Horla City y otros, de Fabián Casas-, que durante las décadas de 1990 y 2000 tematiza, con insistencia y mediante opciones diversas, la relación sujeto-ciudad. En dichos textos, es posible releer una continuidad -relativamente canónicadel paseante por los márgenes periféricos de la modernidad -en el caso de Casas- y la reclusión voluntaria, como repliegue extremo ante la vivencia del deambular callejero, que se percibe como intimidante en Gambarotta.

Walter Benjamin and the Inhumanities: Towards a Pedagogical Anti-Nietzscheanism

The following discussion is intended as a critical intervention into recent debates about the “crisis of the humanities,” reading the symptomaticity of crisis in the medical sense of a turning point. It does so from the perspective of the work of Walter Benjamin, whose own transdisciplinary practice of thought has been characterized as a “philosophy directed against philosophy” and a “philosophizing beyond philosophy,” and stands as a model for the kind of intellectual and para-academic activity evoked here. Historically re-situating Benjamin’s famous allegory of the Angel of History from the twentieth-century context of the “crisis of culture” to the contemporary “crisis of education,” it attempts to reconstruct a dialectical understanding of pedagogization within Benjamin’s work, which is used to sketch out the contours of a critically reimagined pedagogy of the Inhumanities.

Quantitative genetic divergence and standing genetic (co)variance in thermal reaction norms along latitude

Although the potential to adapt to warmer climate is constrained by genetic trade-offs, our understanding of how selection and mutation shape genetic (co)variances in thermal reaction norms is poor. Using 71 isofemale lines of the fly Sepsis punctum, originating from northern, central, and southern European climates, we tested for divergence in juvenile development rate across latitude at five experimental temperatures. To investigate effects of evolutionary history in different climates on standing genetic variation in reaction norms, we further compared genetic (co)variances between regions. Flies were reared on either high or low food resources to explore the role of energy acquisition in determining genetic trade-offs between different temperatures. Although the latter had only weak effects on the strength and sign of genetic correlations, genetic architecture differed significantly between climatic regions, implying that evolution of reaction norms proceeds via different trajectories at high latitude versus low latitude in this system. Accordingly, regional genetic architecture was correlated to region-specific differentiation. Moreover, hot development temperatures were associated with low genetic variance and stronger genetic correlations compared to cooler temperatures. We discuss the evolutionary potential of thermal reaction norms in light of their underlying genetic architectures, evolutionary histories, and the materialization of trade-offs in natural environments.

Experimental evolution for generalists and specialists reveals multivariate genetic constraints on thermal reaction norms

Theory predicts the emergence of generalists in variable environments and antagonistic pleiotropy to favour specialists in constant environments, but empirical data seldom support such generalist–specialist trade-offs. We selected for generalists and specialists in the dung fly Sepsis punctum (Diptera: Sepsidae) under conditions that we predicted would reveal antagonistic pleiotropy and multivariate trade-offs underlying thermal reaction norms for juvenile development. We performed replicated laboratory evolution using four treatments: adaptation at a hot (31 °C) or a cold (15 °C) temperature, or under regimes fluctuating between these temperatures, either within or between generations. After 20 generations, we assessed parental effects and genetic responses of thermal reaction norms for three correlated life-history traits: size at maturity, juvenile growth rate and juvenile survival. We find evidence for antagonistic pleiotropy for performance at hot and cold temperatures, and a temperature-mediated trade-off between juvenile survival and size at maturity, suggesting that trade-offs associated with environmental tolerance can arise via intensified evolutionary compromises between genetically correlated traits. However, despite this antagonistic pleiotropy, we found no support for the evolution of increased thermal tolerance breadth at the expense of reduced maximal performance, suggesting low genetic variance in the generalist–specialist dimension.

Plastic and evolutionary responses to heat stress in a temperate dung fly: negative correlation between basal and induced heat tolerance?

Extreme weather events such as heat waves are becoming more frequent and intense. Populations can cope with elevated heat stress by evolving higher basal heat tolerance (evolutionary response) and/or stronger induced heat tolerance (plastic response). However, there is ongoing debate about whether basal and induced heat tolerance are negatively correlated and whether adaptive potential in heat tolerance is sufficient under ongoing climate warming. To evaluate the evolutionary potential of basal and induced heat tolerance, we performed experimental evolution on a temperate source 4 population of the dung fly Sepsis punctum. Offspring of flies adapted to three thermal selection regimes (Hot, Cold and Reference) were subjected to acute heat stress after having been exposed to either a hot-acclimation or non-acclimation pretreatment. As different traits may respond differently to temperature stress, several physiological and life history traits were assessed. Condition dependence of the response was evaluated by exposing juveniles to different levels of developmental (food restriction/rearing density) stress. Heat knockdown times were highest, whereas acclimation effects were lowest in the Hot selection regime, indicating a negative association between basal and induced heat tolerance. However, survival, adult longevity, fecundity and fertility did not show such a pattern. Acclimation had positive effects in heat-shocked flies, but in the absence of heat stress hot-acclimated flies had reduced life spans relative to nonacclimated ones, thereby revealing a potential cost of acclimation. Moreover, body size positively affected heat tolerance and unstressed individuals were less prone to heat stress than stressed flies, offering support for energetic costs associated with heat tolerance. Overall, our results indicate that heat tolerance of temperate insects can evolve under rising temperatures, but this response could be limited by a negative relationship between basal and induced thermotolerance, and may involve some but not other fitness-related traits.

Um exercício de pensamento: entre a fotografia e a escrita

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Una temporada en el invierno : Fotografía de una nevada poética en Fastos de Arturo Carrera

El presente trabajo intenta poner en evidencia una de las posibles continuidades, casi como una película sensible, entre la poesía y otras zonas artísticas, aquí la fotografía. Este vínculo será abordado desde la obra del poeta argentino Arturo Carrera, particularmente Fastos (2010): libro que trabaja cada poema como días-instantes luz que invaden, tal como la nevada porteña del 2009, el universo de las percepciones y el espacio de lo cotidiano. En este sentido, el lenguaje artístico se configura como escritura sumi-é o flashes imborrables, ya congelados, de la memoria escrituraria: almanaques poéticos. Por todo lo aquí señalado, podría permitir este poemario (junto a otros libros del autor) leer ya la obra de este poeta argentino como un universo poético sólido y compacto, alejado de los estallidos neobarrocos latinoamericano. Será este trabajo entonces también un recorte fotográfico del discurso crítico literario

Una temporada en el invierno : Fotografía de una nevada poética en Fastos de Arturo Carrera

El presente trabajo intenta poner en evidencia una de las posibles continuidades, casi como una película sensible, entre la poesía y otras zonas artísticas, aquí la fotografía. Este vínculo será abordado desde la obra del poeta argentino Arturo Carrera, particularmente Fastos (2010): libro que trabaja cada poema como días-instantes luz que invaden, tal como la nevada porteña del 2009, el universo de las percepciones y el espacio de lo cotidiano. En este sentido, el lenguaje artístico se configura como escritura sumi-é o flashes imborrables, ya congelados, de la memoria escrituraria: almanaques poéticos. Por todo lo aquí señalado, podría permitir este poemario (junto a otros libros del autor) leer ya la obra de este poeta argentino como un universo poético sólido y compacto, alejado de los estallidos neobarrocos latinoamericano. Será este trabajo entonces también un recorte fotográfico del discurso crítico literario

Una temporada en el invierno : Fotografía de una nevada poética en Fastos de Arturo Carrera

El presente trabajo intenta poner en evidencia una de las posibles continuidades, casi como una película sensible, entre la poesía y otras zonas artísticas, aquí la fotografía. Este vínculo será abordado desde la obra del poeta argentino Arturo Carrera, particularmente Fastos (2010): libro que trabaja cada poema como días-instantes luz que invaden, tal como la nevada porteña del 2009, el universo de las percepciones y el espacio de lo cotidiano. En este sentido, el lenguaje artístico se configura como escritura sumi-é o flashes imborrables, ya congelados, de la memoria escrituraria: almanaques poéticos. Por todo lo aquí señalado, podría permitir este poemario (junto a otros libros del autor) leer ya la obra de este poeta argentino como un universo poético sólido y compacto, alejado de los estallidos neobarrocos latinoamericano. Será este trabajo entonces también un recorte fotográfico del discurso crítico literario