ANTHROPOGENESIS AND A TICK (Antropogeneza i kleszcz)

• Authors: Rutkowski Krzysztof
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Baron Uexküll was a greatly original thinker endowed with a sense of humour and cosmic imagination, who claimed to have kept an unfed tick absolutely isolated in laboratory conditions (the tick was unable to find a victim) for 18 years. The insect sank 'into a state of anticipation', a dream-like condition resembling the process of falling asleep experienced by us each night. Uexküll could not find an explanation for the tick's longevity. He wrote that: 'Time does not exist without the existence of a living organism', and Agamben added: 'What happens to the tick and its world, asleep for 18 years? How is it possible for a living organism, whose life depends entirely upon 'significant points' to survive for so long while deprived of them? How can one speak about 'waiting' beyond time and the world?'.

Keywords

EN

UEXKÜLL JAKOB VON

Discipline

• ANTHROPOLOGY: ANTHROPOLOGY

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Sztuki PAN
• Journal: Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 62
• Issue: 2(281)
• Pages: 176-177
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Rutkowski Krzysztof

• Krzysztof Rutkowski, address not given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA063622