Chuck palahniuk’s fight club under a different lens: pressures on the male body in community and the question of masculinity

The present paper aims to analyse Chuck Palahniuk’s first novel Fight Club (1996) from a different viewpoint, i.e., the communitarian theories perspective. In order to enrich this study, this field will be interconnected with gender studies, specifically on men’s studies and the field of masculinities. The novel describes the formation of the symbolically saturated community of “fight club” whose members are obsessed with an absent paternal figure, including the protagonist. However, his existential crisis will be solved thanks to his encounter with Marla Singer. In that encounter Tyler Durden will have a fundamental role to play: he will act as a catalyst figure, filtering all the saturated symbolisms that limit the main character’s essentialist masculine identity. As a result, the protagonist will be able to meet the main female protagonist, Marla Singer, in an inorganic encounter, where they will be able to expose each other’s individualities in a meaningful way.Este artículo tiene como objetivo analizar la novela de Chuck Palahniuk El Club de la Lucha (1996) desde un punto de vista diferente, el de las teorías comunitarias. Para enriquecer dicho estudio, este campo se combinará con los estudios de género, específicamente en los estudios de masculinidades. La novela describe la formación de una comunidad simbólicamente saturada, la del “club de la lucha”, cuyos miembros están obsesionados con una figura paternal ausente, incluido el protagonista. Sin embargo, su crisis existencial se resolverá gracias a su encuentro con Marla Singer, en el que Tyler Durden tendrá un papel fundamental: actuará como figura catalizadora, filtrando los simbolismos saturados que limitan la identidad esencialista del personaje principal. Como resultado, el protagonista podrá conectar con el personaje femenino principal, Marla Singer, de forma inorgánica, donde serán capaces de mostrar su individualidad de forma significativa

Probing the spacetime structure of vacuum entanglement

We introduce a framework for probing the spacetime structure of vacuum entanglement that exhibits infinite range correlations between the future and the past, as well as spatially separated regions. Our results are non-perturbative and analytical.Comment: I.F. previously published as Fuentes-Guridi and Fuentes-Schulle

A note on Abelian varieties embedded in quadrics

We show that if A is a d-dimensional abelian variety in a smooth quadric of dimension 2d then d=1 and A is an elliptic curve of bidegree (2,2) on a quadric. This extends a result of Van de Ven which says that A only can be embedded in P^{2d} when d=1 or 2.Comment: 5 page