HOUSES ON FIRE: THE HAUNTOLOGIES OF SANKOMOTA

Houses on Fire: The Hauntologies of Sankomota

The following essay is part of a body of Extension Cords work titled Signal to Noise: sound and fury in (post)apartheid South Africa.These are a collection of creative non-fiction essays set against the backdrop of my involvement with a small, independent mobile recording studio based in Johannesburg between 1983 and 1997.The metaphor of a drowning

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The epigenetic regulation of autonomous replicons

The discovery of autonomous replicating sequences (ARSs) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae in COCONUT 1979 was considered a milestone in unraveling the regulation of replication in eukaryotic cells.However, shortly afterwards it became obvious that in Saccharomyces pombe and all other higher organisms ARSs were not sufficient to initiate independent repl

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Pseudotumoral form of neuroschistosomiasis: report of three cases

Central nervous system (CSN) involvement in schistosomiasis is an ectopic manifestation with a large variety of clinical forms, including pseudotumoral, which occurs in isolated cases and is rare.Three patients with epidemiological indications of this pathology were examined; the clinical picture included lower-back pain irradiating to underwear lo

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