What is an Insurrection? Destituent Power and Ontological Anarchy in Agamben and Stirner

The aim of this article is to develop a theoretical understanding of the insurrection as a central concept in radical politics in order to account for contemporary movements and forms of mobilisation that seek to withdraw from governing institutions and affirm autonomous practices and forms of life. I will develop a theory of insurrection by investigating the parallel thinking of Giorgio Agamben and Max Stirner. Starting with Stirner’s central distinction between revolution and insurrection, and linking this with Agamben’s theory of destituent power, I show how both thinkers develop an ontologically anarchic approach to ethics, subjectivity and life that is designed to destitute and profane governing institutions and established categories of politics. However, I will argue that Stirner’s ‘egoistic’ and voluntarist approach to insurrection provides a more tangible and positive way of thinking about political action and agency than Agamben’s at times vague, albeit suggestive, notion of inoperativity

Effect of copulation on follicle maturation in Anopheles atroparvus | [INFLUENZA DELLA COPULAZIONE SULLA MATURAZIONE DEL FOLLICOLO IN ANOPHELES ATROPARVUS VAN THIEL]

Blood fed virgin females of Anopheles atroparvus did not develop ovarian follicles to maturation. In these females, the ovaries were characterized by small follicular size and little yolk deposition. Only the ovaries of blood fed mated females completed development. Thus, the mating permits the complete maturation of the eggs in these mosquitoes

Karyotype, DNA replication and origin of sex chromosomes in Anopheles atroparvus

Anopheles atroparvus has two pairs of autosomes similar in length and morphology and two sex chromosomes with equal, heterochromatic, late replicating long arms with homologous C, G, and Q bands. The short arm of the Y is shorter than that of the X and both are euchromatic. The mean number of chiasmata per cell in the male is 3.2. During mitosis there is a high grade of somatic pairing but X and Y, which form a heteropycnotic mass in the interphase nucleus, have a differential behavior. The chronology of DNA replication was studied in spermatogonia and brain cells by autoradiography. It is hypothesized that the present sex chromosomes of A. atroparvus evolved by accumulation of sex determining factors and gene deterioration resulting in heterochromatinization of the long arms, followed by structural rearrangements. The homology of the two sex chromosomes requires limited dosage compensation which is achieved either as in Drosophila by modifier genes or by accumulation on the short arm of the X, only of female determining factors which do not require dosage compensation