File:ROUND-UP of mosquitos that I've stalked, swatted and disposed to allegorize them as harbingers of global warming (1206575720).jpg

Round-up of mosquitos that I have stalked, swatted and disposed to allegorize them as harbingers of the climate change. The poor positive phototropic mosquitos were allured by electric light, - shut-on nocturnally in the staircase-hallway by my getting home fellow-occupants. The swarm flew straight to the brightly-lit hall-windows and noticed that they were closed - but then they smelled the odour coming out of an opened window in the upper ground floor, two meters apart from the time and again illuminated staircase windows. -, slightly changed their direction and intruded into my dormitory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... .. .. . ...... I had to crush each of those insects barehanded or with a square Atlas from my schooldays {'Dierke Weltatlas' (33½ cm x 23 ½ cm), 1972}. For some of them I took as a decent fly swat a book with a frontcoverpainting by Jacques-Louis David depicting the death of Jean-Paul Marat in his bathtub, 33½ cm x 23 ½ cm). Afterwards I had to pick the flies up with tweezers from the white walls and ceilings. There was only one blood-filled sucker amongst them, it was the female insect in the center of the circle-image. So I decided to take blood-revenge by exposing the carcass. I put her at the omphalos of the hellenic orchestra and disposed the disposed-of male nonsuckers all around. The mosquito-round-up-event took place in the Wuhletal on 21st August 2007.

▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ Mosquitoes that carry malaria or dengue fever are moving into formerly inhospitable areas at higher elevations. Global warming is expected to increase the range of mosquitoes and the virulence of their diseases. ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ allegorizing the event In seinen geschichtsphilosophischen Thesen hatte Walter Benjamin kritisch eine historiographische Einstellung benannt, in der die Herrschenden ihre Macht verlängern und die eigene Geschichte präsentistisch als Siegergeschichte schreiben. Auf diese Weise würden die Opfer und Verlierer der Geschichte symbolisch gleichsam noch einmal getötet. So heißt es in Benjamins "Thesen über den Begriff der Geschichte": "auch die Toten werden vor dem Feind, wenn er siegt, nicht sicher sein." - Auch die Tradition wird ihm deshalb zu entreißen sein. ................................ Die Möglichkeit einer kommunikativen Gemeinschaft werde durch die Abstraktionen einer separaten, geordneten Sphäre der Repräsentation blockiert. Gerade aber durch diese Abstraktheit der medialisierten und in warenförmiger Bildlichkeit organisierten Kommunikation "erlangt die Marktwirtschaft ihren Status absoluter und von jeglicher Verantwortung entbundener Souveränität über das gesamte gesellschaftliche Leben." Der abstrakte Zauber der Repräsentation lässt die gesellschaftlichen Subjekte nach der "Enteignung des Gemeinsamen" als sprachlose und vereinzelte Atome bestehen - eben beherrschbar. Die Möglichkeitsbedingungen einer politisch-gemeinschaftlichen Konstitution sind ausgehöhlt. Zitate aus: Der Philosoph an den Grenzen der Rechtsgemeinschaft" von Johan Frederik Hartle

Halali [frz. Hallali, H.u.] a) Jagdruf oder Hornsignal, wenn das gehetzte Wild auf einer Parforcejagd gestellt ist b) Signal, das das Ende einer Jagd anzeigt c) Ende der Jagd: zum H. blasen. mess a dirty or untidy state of things or of a place. used euphemistically to refer to the excrement of a domestic animal: dog mess. figurative: a person whose life or affairs are confused or troubled: he needs treatment or some kind - he's a real mess. 2. a building or room in which members of the armed forces take their meals (recorded since 16th cent.) -PHRASES mess with someone's head US informal cause someone to feel frustrated, anxious or upset. mess about/around behave in a silly or playful way, especially so as to cause irritation. mess about/around with interfere with. informal engage in a sexual relationship with (someone, especially the partner of another person) stalk pursue or approach stealthily: a cat stalking a bird; harass or persecute (someone) with unwanted and obsessive attention: for five years she was stalked by a man who would taunt and threaten her; chiefly poetic/literary move silently or threatening through (a place): the tiger stalks the jungle , figurative fear stalked the camp 2 stride somewhere in a proud, stiff or angry manner: without another word she turned and stalked out ORIGIN late Old English - stealcian (in bistealcian 'walk cautiously or stealthily', related to steal. noun 1 a stealthy pursuit of someone or something 2 a stiff striding gait.