“BITTE BETRACHTEN SIE MICH ALS EINEN TRAUM“. LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY IN HAMID SADRS GESPRÄCHSZETTEL AN DORA

Wie Jacques Derrida u. a. in Die Einsprachigkeit des Anderen oder Die ursprüngliche Prothese zeigt, ist jeder Mensch immer schon mehrsprachig. Wenn wir diesen Zustand der Nicht-Einsprachigkeit als ein allgemein-menschliches Phänomen begreifen, und dazu eignet sich die sogenannte exophone Literatur besonders, dann hilft uns das zu verstehen, dass das Fremd-Sein eines/einer Fremden zu befragen immer zugleich bedeutet, auch unser eigenes Fremd-Sein zu befragen, dann wird die Frage nach dem Fremden zur Frage der eigenen Identität. Um dies zu zeigen, lese ich Hamid Sadrs Gesprächszettel an Dora (1994) parallel zu und mit Derridas Konzept von Ein- und Mehrsprachigkeit. In dem ‚Roman‘ erfindet der Erzähler entlang von Egodokumenten seine Wahrheit über Franz Kafkas Sterben und widerspricht damit vielen Wissenschaftler- und Biograph_innen, die den Tod Kafkas als Konsequenz seines Dichterseins, seiner Zerrissenheit etc. interpretiert haben. Was uns die Dichterfigur entfremdet, ist dabei die Sprache selbst und zwar gerade die anscheinend authentischen Berichte, die, in Kombination mit den unzuverlässigen Erzählerstimmen die Konstruktion der Figur Kafka offenlegen. Der Kafka des Textes – der als K., als Kafka, als kavka auftritt, der im Erzählen als Kafka gesetzt, erschrieben wird, und zwar in jenen Worten, die die seinen sind, die ihm also vermeintlich vorangehen und doch, zugleich, folgen, sich (auch) als Nach-Schreiben entpuppen – wird wieder aufgelöst, wird fremd. Die Verwirrung der Grenzen von Ursache und Wirkung, Vorher und Nachher, Realität und Fiktion, das Sein zwischen Leben und Tod lässt die Kafka/K.-Figur zum Wanderer, zur Figur des Sowohl-alsauch werden. Das Fremd-Sein Kafkas, die Exilsituation in der Abgeschiedenheit des Sanatoriums sind dabei nicht allein Parabeln auf die Situation exiliert Lebender, wie Sadrs persönliche Lebenssituation nahelegte, sie sind darüber hinaus eine Metapher für menschliche Identitätsfindung generell.According to Derridas Monolingualism of the Other, Or, The Prosthesis of Origin every person is always multilingual. If we understand this state of non-monolingualism as a general human phenomenon, which the so called ‘exophone literature’ particulary helps us to do, then we understand that to question a stranger’s alienation always means to question our own alienation at the same time. Thus the question of the stranger becomes the question of one‘s own identity. In my article, I analyze this phenomenon by combining Hamid Sadr’s ‘novel’ Gesprächzettel an Dora (1994) and Jacques Derrida’s concept of mono- and multilingualism. In Hamid Sadr’s text the narrator uses egodocuments to invent a truth about Franz Kafka’s death which opposes many literary scholars and biographers who have interpreted Kafka’s death as a consequence of his existence as a poet, his diremption etc. What alienates the literary figure named Kafka from us is the language itself, and first of all the combination of allegedly ‘authentic’ documents with the unreliable narrative voices, thus revealing the constructiveness of ‘Kafka’. The main character Kafka – who within the text is named K., Kafka, kavka and who is introduced into the text by using his ‘own’ words, that supposedly precede him and yet, at the same time, succeed him – is deconstructed. Borders between cause and effect, before and after, reality and fiction, life and death become obsolete thus turning the Kafka/K. figure into a wanderer, a figure of ‘both-and’. Kafka’s situation as a stranger, as a kind of exile in the remoteness of the sanatorium, is not alone a parable on the situation of an exile, as Sadr’s personal life may indicate. Moreover, as I will show, it is a metaphor for human identity in general

Self-organized critical and synchronized states in a nonequilibrium percolation model

We introduce a nonequilibrium percolation model which shows a self-organized critical (SOC) state and several periodic states. In the SOC state, the correlation length diverges slower than the system size, and the corresponding exponent depends non universally on the parameter of the model. The periodic states contain an infinite cluster covering only part of the system.Comment: 10 pages, Revtex, two uuencoded figure

Manual de especificaciones y requisitos de nuevos productos y sistemas

Establiment d'especificacions i requisits tècnics per a l'adaptació i adequació dels diferents productes i sistemes obtinguts en l'informe d'avaluació de productes existents (*ST2.1.1)

Structure, Stability, Edge States and Aromaticity of Graphene Ribbons

We determine the stability, the geometry, the electronic and magnetic structure of hydrogen-terminated graphene-nanoribbons edges as a function of the hydrogen content of the environment by means of density functional theory. Antiferromagnetic zigzag ribbons are stable only at extremely-low ultra-vacuum pressures. Under more standard conditions, the most stable structures are the mono- and di-hydrogenated armchair edges and a zigzag edge reconstruction with one di- and two mono-hydrogenated sites. At high hydrogen-concentration ``bulk'' graphene is not stable and spontaneously breaks to form ribbons, in analogy to the spontaneous breaking of graphene into small-width nanoribbons observed experimentally in solution. The stability and the existence of exotic edge electronic-states and/or magnetism is rationalized in terms of simple concepts from organic chemistry (Clar's rule)Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication by Physical Review Letter

Structure and stability of graphene nanoribbons in oxygen, carbon dioxide, water, and ammonia

We determine, by means of density functional theory, the stability and the structure of graphene nanoribbon (GNR) edges in presence of molecules such as oxygen, water, ammonia, and carbon dioxide. As in the case of hydrogen-terminated nanoribbons, we find that the most stable armchair and zigzag configurations are characterized by a non-metallic/non-magnetic nature, and are compatible with Clar's sextet rules, well known in organic chemistry. In particular, we predict that, at thermodynamic equilibrium, neutral GNRs in oxygen-rich atmosphere should preferentially be along the armchair direction, while water-saturated GNRs should present zigzag edges. Our results promise to be particularly useful to GNRs synthesis, since the most recent and advanced experimental routes are most effective in water and/or ammonia-containing solutions.Comment: accepted for publication in PR

A Case Study on Citation Accuracy: The Letter That “Became" a Research Article

Également publié dans : Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association; vol. 38, no 2Since its publication in 2006, a two-paragraph letter by Handoll H.H. on the need for Cochrane reviews on rehabilitation interventions has been repeatedly cited, erroneously, in meta-analyses of genetic risk factors as a reference for the Q test for heterogeneity. In order to understand how this error started, evolved and lasted throughout the years, a citation and publication analysis of the citing articles was done

Del cereal alimento al cereal pienso. Historia y balance de un intento de autosuficiencia ganadera: 1967-1972

The profuse use of the cereal as feeding stuff has been one of the main questions raised to the agrarian sector and its policies in Spain since Flores de Lemus elevated this proposal in 1926. Nevertheless, this change had to wait until the second half of the sixties in order to be made, this work analyses the reasons behind the difficult shift from food to feeding stuff for Spanish cereal throughout the twentieth century, previous to its development. It also explains why it finally happened then, the policy instruments used to make the shift possible, as well as the results. To do it so, this work considers mainly the period between 1967 and 1972, as it includes all the measures taken by Franco's regime to obtain a great substitution between cereals, in order to achieve a greater self sufficiency in these Iivestock input