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Dealer went out of business a year after purchase. Had problems with door latch (assembly problem from new) causing stove to burn uncontrolled and Quad would not help. Kept referring me to dealers that were too far away to help. Now after 2 seasons the start-up air doesn't work. If you are looking for a "lifetime" stove look elsewhere and buy something else!!!! Bad Dealers, Bad Company, Bad Product!!!!
I have never written a review for anything but I feel obligated to warn people to stay away from these stoves and the company. I bought this stove because I was told it was a "lifetime" stove not a throw-away. A year after that my local dealer went out of business (some lifetime). I had door latch problems (incorrectly assembled from new) that caused the stove to burn uncontrolled. Quad wouldn't help and kept referring me to dealers that were too far away to help, so I fixed it myself. After 2 seasons the start-up air feature no longer works. After this experience I would advise people against these due to the dealer(s), the company, and the product. At least I know my old Jotul in the basement will burn when I need it.
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The invention relates to compounds which contain an antigen binding region which is bound to at least one enzyme which is able to metabolize a compound (prodrug) which has little or no cytotoxicity to a cytotoxic compound (drug), where the antigen binding region is composed of a single polypeptide chain. It is advantageous for covalently bonded carbohydrates to be present on the polypeptide chain.
1. A eukaryotic host cell comprising a nucleic acid sequence coding for a compound comprising two or more antigen bindig regions linked to at least one prodrug-activating enzyme, wherein
a) the antigen binding region consists of a single polypeptide chain;
b) the single polypeptide chain is comprised of a first variable domain, a second variable domain and a polypeptide linker connection the first variable donmain and the second variable domain, wherein the nucleotide sequence the polypeptide linker is formed by two partially overlapping PCR primers during a PCR reaction that links the first variable domain and the second variable domain; and wherein
c) said compound has a bivalent or a multivalent structure and is glycosylated.
2. The host cell of
3. The host cell of
4. A process for preparing a compound which comprises cultivating the host cell of
isolating said compound.
5. A transgenic mammal that is not human comprising a nucleic acid sequence coding for a compound comprisding two or more antigen binding regions linked to at least one prodrug-activating enzyime, wherein
a) the antigen binding region consists of a single polypeptide chain;
b) the single polypeptide chain is comprised of a first variable domain, a second variable domain and a polypeptide linker connecting the first variable domain and the second variabi domain, wherein the nucleotide sequence encoding the polypeptide linker is formed by two partially overlapping PCR primers during a PCR reaction that links the first variable domain and the second variable domain; and wherein
c) said compound has a bivalent or a multivalent structure and is glycosylated.
6. The eukaryotic host cell of
7. The eukaryotic host cell of
8. The eukaryotic host cell or the transgenic mammal
9. The eukaryotic host cell of
10. The eukaryotic host cell or the transgenic mammal
11. The eukaryotic host cell of
12. The eukaryotic host cell of
13. The eukaryotic host cell or the transgenic mammal of
14. The eukaryotic host cell of
This application is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/989,896 filed on Dec. 12, 1997, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,060,495, issued Jun. 13, 2006, which is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 08/475,826, filed on Jun. 7, 1995 now abandoned which is a divisional of U.S. application Ser. No. 08/404,949 filed Mar. 15, 1995 now abandoned, which is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 08/129,379 filed on Sep. 30, 1993 now abandoned and claims priority from German patent application P 42 33 152.8 filed Oct. 2, 1992.
The invention relates to compounds which contain an antigen binding region which is bound to at least one enzyme which is able to metabolize a compound (prodrug) which has little or no cytotoxicity to a cytotoxic compound (drug), where the antigen binding region is composed of a single polypeptide chain. It is advantageous for covalently bonded carbohydrates to be present on the polypeptide chain.
The combination of prodrug and antibody-enzyme conjugates for use as therapeutic composition has already been described in the specialist literature. This entails antibodies which are directed against a particular tissue and to which a prodrug-cleaving enzyme is bound being injected into an organism, and subsequently a prodrug compound which can be activated by the enzyme being administered. The action of the antibody-enzyme conjugate bound to the target tissue is intended to convert the prodrug compound into a compound which exerts a cytotoxic effect on the bound tissue. However, studies on antibody-enzyme conjugates have shown that these chemical conjugates have unfavorable pharmacokinetics so that there is only inadequate site-specific tumor-selective cleavage of the prodrug. Some authors have attempted to remedy this evident deficiency by additional injection of an anti-enzyme antibody which is intended to bring about rapid elimination of the antibody-enzyme conjugate from the plasma (Sharma et al., Brit. J. Cancer, 61, 659, 1990). Another problem of antibody-enzyme conjugates is the limited possibility of preparing large amounts reproducibly and homogeneously.
The object of the present invention was now to find fusion proteins which can be prepared on an industrial scale and are suitable, by reason of their pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties, for therapeutic uses.
It has been found in this connection that compounds which contain an antigen binding region which is composed of a single polypeptide chain have unexpected advantages for the preparation and use of fusion proteins, to which carbohydrates are advantageously attached, in prodrug activation.
The invention therefore relates to compounds which contain an antigen binding region which is bound to at least one enzyme, where the antigen binding region is composed of a single polypeptide chain, and carbohydrates are advantageously attached to the fusion protein.
An antigen binding region means for the purpose of the invention a region which contains at least two variable domains of an antibody, preferably one variable domain of a heavy antibody chain and one variable domain of a light antibody chain (sFv fragment). The antigen binding region can, however, also have a bi- or multivalent structure, i.e. two or more binding regions, as described, for example, in EP-A-0 404 097. However, a human or humanized sFv fragment is particularly preferred, especially a humanized sFv fragment.
The antigen binding region preferably binds to a tumor-associated antigen (TAA), with the following TAAs being particularly preferred:
Preferred enzymes are those enzymes which are able to metabolize a compound of little or no cytotoxicity to a cytotoxic compound. Examples are β-lactamase, pyroglutamate aminopeptidase, galactosidase or D-aminopeptidase as described, for example, in EP-A2-0 382 411 or EP-A2-0 392 745, an oxidase such as, for example, ethanol oxidase, galactose oxidase, D-amino-acid oxidase or α-glyceryl-phosphate oxidase as described, for example, in WO 91/00108, peroxidase as disclosed, for example, in EP-A2-0 361 908, a phosphatase as described, for example, in EP-A1-0 302 473, a hydroxynitrilelyase or glucosidase as disclosed, for example, in WO 91/11201, a carboxypeptidase such as, for example, carboxypeptidase G2 (WO 88/07378), an amidase such as, for example, penicillin 5-amidase (Kerr, D. E. et al. Cancer Immunol. Immunther. 1990, 31) and a protease, esterase or glycosidase such as the already mentioned galactosidase, glucosidase or a glucuronidase as described, for example, in WO 91/08770.
A β-glucuronidase is preferred, preferably from Kobayasia nipponica or Secale cereale, and more preferably from E. coli or a human β-glucuronidase. The substrates for the individual enzymes are also indicated in the said patents and are intended also to form part of the disclosure content of the present application. Preferred substrates of β-glucuronidase are N-(D-glycopyranosyl)benzyloxycarbonylanthracyclines and, in particular, N-(4-hydroxy3-nitrobenzyloxycarbonyl)doxorubicin and daunorubicin β-D-glucuronide (J. C. Florent et al. (1992) Int. Carbohydr. Symp. Paris, A262, 297 or S. Andrianomenjanahary et al. (1992) Int. Carbohydr. Symp. Paris, A 264, 299).
The invention further relates to nucleic acids which code for the compounds according to the invention. Particularly preferred is a nucleic acid, as well as its variants and mutants, which codes for a humanized sFv fragment against CEA (carcinoembryonic antigen) linked to a human β-glucuronidase, preferably with the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:1, which codes for the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2.
The compounds according to the invention are prepared in general by methods of genetic manipulation which are generally known to the skilled worker, it being possible for the antigen binding region to be linked to one or more enzymes either directly or via a linker, preferably a peptide linker. The peptide linker which can be used is, for example, a hinge region of an antibody or a hinge-like amino-acid sequence. In this case, the enzyme is preferably linked with the N terminus to the antigen binding region directly or via a peptide linker. The enzyme or enzymes can, however, also be linked to the antigen binding region chemically as described, for example, in WO 91/00108.
The nucleic acid coding for the amino-acid sequence of the compounds according to the invention is generally cloned in an expression vector, introduced into prokaryotic or eukaryotic host cells such as, for example, BHK, CHO, COS, HeLa, insect, tobacco plant, yeast or E. coli cells and expressed. The compound prepared in this way can subsequently be isolated and used as diagnostic aid or therapeutic agent. Another generally known method for the preparation of the compound according to the invention is the expression of the nucleic acids which code therefor in transgenic mammals with the exception of humans, preferably in a transgenic goat.
BHK cells transfected with the nucleic acids according to the invention express a fusion protein (sFv-huβ-Gluc) which not only was specific for CEA but also had full β-glucuronidase activity (see Example 5).
This fusion protein was purified by anti-idiotype affinity chromatography in accordance with the method described in EP 0 501 215 A2 (Example M). The fusion protein purified in this way gives a molecular weight of 100 kDA in the SDS PAGE under reducing conditions, while molecules of 100 and 200 kDa respectively appear under non-reducing conditions.
Gel chromatography under native conditions (TSK-3000 gel chromatography) showed one protein peak (Example 6,
Astonishingly, a tumor/plasma ratio of 5/1 is reached after only 48 hours. At later times, this ratio becomes even more favorable and reaches values >200/1 (day 5). The reason for this favorable pharmacokinetic behavior of the sFv-huβ-Gluc fusion protein is that fusion protein not bound to the tumor is removed from the plasma and the normal tissues by internalization mainly by receptors for mannose 6-phosphate and galactose. (Evidence for this statement is that there is an intracellular increase in the β-glucuronidase level, for example in the liver).
As shown in Table 2, the sFv-huβ-Gluc contains relatively large amounts of galactose and, especialty, mannose, which are mainly responsible for the binding to the particular receptors. The fusion protein/receptor complex which results and in which there is binding via the carbohydrate residues of the fusion protein is then removed from the extracellular compartment by internalization.
This rapid internalization mechanism, which is mainly mediated by galactose and mannose, is closely involved in the advantageous phannacokinetics of the fusion protein according to the invention. These advantageous pharmacokinetics of the fusion protein to which galactose and, in particular, mannose are attached makes it possible for a hydrophilic prodrug which undergoes extracellular distribution to be administered i.v. at a relatively early time without eliciting non-specific prodrug activation. In this case an elimination step as described by Sharma et al. (Brit. J. Cancer, 61, 659, 1990) is unnecessary. Based on the data in Table 1, injection of a suitable prodrug (S. Adrianomenjanahari et al. 1992, Int. Carbohydrate Symp., Parts A264, 299) is possible even 3 days after injection of the sFv-huβ-Gluc fusion protein without producing significant side effects (data not shown).
A similarly advantageous attachment of carbohydrates to fusion proteins can also be achieved, for example, by secretory expression of the sFv-huβ-Gluc fusion protein in particular yeast strains such as Saccharomyces cerevisiac or Hansenula polymorpha. These organisms are capable of very effective mannosylation of fusion proteins which have appropriate N-glycosylation sites (Goochee et al., Biotechnology, 9, 1347-1354, 1991). Such fusion proteins which have undergone secretory expression in yeast cells show a high degree of mannosylation and favorable pharmacokinetics comparable to those of the sFv-huβ-Gluc fusion protein expressed in BHK cells (data not shown). In this case, the absence of galactose is compensated by the even higher degree of mannosylation of the fusion protein Table 3). The sFv-huβ-Gluc fusion protein described above was constructed by genetic manipulation and expressed in yeast as described in detail in Example 9.
Instead of human β-glucuronidase it is, however, also possible to employ another glucuronidase with advantageous properties. For example, the E. coli β-glucuronidase has the particular advantage that its catalytic activity at pH 7.4 is signiflcantly higher than that of human β-glucuronidase. In Example 10, an sFv-E. coli β-Gluc construct was prepared by methods of genetic manipulation and underwent secretory expression as functionally active mannosylated fusion protein in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The pharmacokinetic data are comparable to those of the sFv-huβ-Gluc molecule which was expressed in yeast or in BHK cells (Table 1).
The glucuronidases from the fungus Kobayasia nipponica and from the plants Secale cereale have the advantage, for example, that they are also active as monomers. In Example 11, methods of genetic manipulation were used to prepare a construct which, after expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, excretes an sFv-β. cereus β-lactamase II fusion protein preferentially in mannosylated form.
This fusion protein likewise has, as the fusion proteins according to the invention, on the basis of β-glucuronidase pharmacokinetics which are favorable for prodrug activation (Table1).
Furthermore, the compounds according to the invention can be employed not only in combination with a prodrug but also in the framework of conventional chemotherapy in which cytostatics which are metabolized as glucuronides and thus inactivated can be converted back into their toxic form by the administered compounds.
The following examples now describe the synthesis by genetic manipulation of sFv-β-Gluc fusion proteins, and the demonstration of the ability to function.
The starting material comprised the plasmids pABstop 431/26 hum VH and pABstop 431/26 hum VHL. These plasmids contain the humanized version of the VH gene and VL gene of anti-CEA MAb BW 431/26 (Gussow and Seemann, 1991, Meth. Enzymology, 203, 99-121). Further starting material comprised the plasmid pABstop 431/26 VH-huβ-Gluc 1H (EP-A2-0 501 215) which contains a VH exon, including the VH-intrinsic signal sequence, followed by a CH1 exon, by the hinge exon of a human IgG3 C gene and the complete cDNA of human β-glucuronidase.
Amplification of the VH and VL Genes of MAb hum 431/26
The oligonucleotides pAB-Back (SEQ ID NO:3) and linker-anti (SEQ ID NO:4) are used to amplify the VH gene including the signal sequence intrinsic to the VH gene from pABstop 431VH hum (VH 431/26) (
Joining of the VH 431/26 and VL 431/26 Gene Fragments
The oligonucleotides linker-anti and linker-sense are partially complementary with one another and encode a polypeptide linker which is intended to link the VH domain and VL domain to give an sFv fragment. In order to fuse the amplified VH fragments with the VL fragments, they are purified and employed in a 10-cycle reaction as follows:
The surface of the reaction mixture is sealed with paraffin, and subsequently the 10-cycle reaction is carried out in a PCR apparatus programmed for 94� C., 1 min; 55� C., 1 min; 72� C., 2 min. 2.5 pmol of the flanking primer pAB-Back and VL(Mut)-For are added, and a further 20 cycles are carried out. The resulting PCR fragment is composed of the VH gene which is linked to the VL gene via a linker (
The oligonucleotide VL(Mut)-For also results in the last nucleotide base of the VL gene, a C, being replaced by a G. This PCR fragment codes for a humanized single-chain Fv (sFV 431/26).
Cloning of the sFv 431/26 Fragment into the Expression Vector which Contains the huβ-Glucuronidase Gene.
The sFv fragment from (2) is cut with HindIII and BamHI and ligated into the vector pAB 431VHhum/CH1+1h/β-Glc which has been completely cleaved with HindIII and partially cleaved with BglII. The vector pABstop 431/26VHhuβ-Gluc1H contains a VH exon, including the VH-intrinsic signal sequence, followed by a CH1 exon, by the hinge exon of a human IgG3 C gene and by the complete cDNA of human β-glucuronidase. The plasmid clone pMCG-E1 which contains the humanized sFv 431/26, a hinge exon and the gene for human β-glucuronidase is isolated (pMCG-E1)(
Expression of the sFv-huβ-Gluc Fusion Protein in BHK Cells.
The clone pMCG-E1 is transfected with the plasmid pRMH 140 which harbors a neomycin-resistance gene (
Demonstration of the Antigen-Binding Properties and of the Enzymatic Activity of the sFv-huβ-Gluc Fusion Protein.
The ability of the sFv-huβ-Gluc fusion protein to bind specifically to the CEA epitope defined by 431/26 and simultaneously to exert the enzymatic activity of human β-glucuronidase was shown in a specificity enzyme activity test (EP-A2-0 501 215). The test determines the liberation of 4-methylumbelliferone from 4-methylumbelliferyl β-glucuronide by the β-glucuronidase portion of the fusion protein after the fusion protein has been bound via the sFv portion to an antigen. The measured fluorescence values are reported as relative fluorescence units (FU). The test shows a significant liberation of methyl-umbelliferone by the fusion protein in the plates coated with CEA. By contrast, the fusion protein does not liberate any methylumbelliferone in control plates coated with PEM (polymorphic epithelial mucin).
TSK 3000 Gel Chromatography
200 ng of the sFv-huβ-Gluc fusion protein which had been purified by anti-idiotype affinity chromatography in 25 μl were chromatographed on a TSK gel G 3000 SW XL column (TOSO HAAS Order No. 3.5Wx.N3211, 7.8 mm�300 mm) in a suitable mobile phase (PBS, pH 7.2, containing 5 g/l maltose and 4.2 g/l arginine) at a flow rate of 0.5 ml/min. The Merck Hitachi HPLC system (L-4000 UV detector, L-6210 intelligent pump, D-2500 Chromato-integrator) was operated under ≈20 bar, the optical density of the eluate was determined at 280 nm, and an LKB 2111 Multisac fraction collector was used to collect 0.5 ml fractions which were subsequently analysed in a specificity enzyme activity test (SEAT) (EP 0 501 215 A2, Example J). The result of this experiment is shown in
Workup of Organs/Tumors for Determination of the Fusion Protein
The following sequential steps were carried out:
Triple Determinant Test
The tests are carried out as follows:
Expression of the sFv-huβ-Gluc Fusion Protein in Yeast.
The single-chain Fv (sFv) from Example 2 is amplified with the oligos 2577 (SEQ ID NO:8) and 2561 (SEQ ID NO:7) (
The human β-glucuronidase gene is amplified with the oligos 2562 (SEQ ID NO:9) and 2540 (SEQ ID NO:10) (
A KpnI/NcoI fragment is amplified with the oligos 2587 (SEQ ID NO:11) and 2627 (SEQ ID NO:12) (
The BstEII/HindIII fragment from the plasmid sFv 431/26 huβ-Gluc in pUC19 (
The resulting plasmid sFv 431/26 huβ-Gluc in PIXY 120 is transformed into Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the fusion protein is expressed.
Expression of the sFv-E. coli-β-glucuronidase Fusion Protein in Yeast.
The E. coli glucuronidase gene is amplified from PRAJ 275 (Jefferson et al. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci, USA, 83: 8447-8451, 1986) with the oligos 2638 (SEQ ID NO:14) and 2639 (SEQ ID NO:13) (
A BstEII/HindIII fragment from sFv 431/26 E. coli β-Gluc in pUC19 is cloned into the vector VH/link/VK part in PIXY 120 (Example 9,
The plasmid sFv 431/26 E. coli β-Gluc in PIXY 120 is transformed into Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the fusion protein is expressed.
Expression of the sFv-β-lactamase Fusion Protein in Yeast.
The single-chain Fv (sFv) from Example 2 is amplified with the oligos 2587 (SEQ ID NO:15) and 2669 (SEQ ID NO:16) (
The β-lactamase II gene (Hussain et al., J. Bacteriol. 164: 223-229, 1985) is amplified with the oligos 2673 (SEQ ID NO:17) and 2674 (SEQ ID NO:18) (
The KpnI/HindIII sFv-β-lactamase fragment is ligated into pIXY 120 which has been digested with KpnI/partially with HindIII (
The molar ratios of mannose, glucosamine and galactose allow conclusions to be drawn about the presence of the high-mannose type and/or hybrid strutures (besides complex type structyres). Therefore mannose, galactose, acetylneuraminic acid and possibly acid and possibly N-acetylglucosamine occur terminally, and mannose, may also be present as mannose 6-phosphate.
Neuraminic acid was determined by the method of Hermentin and Seidat (1991) GBF Monographs Volume 15, pp. 185-188 (after hydrolysis for 30 min in the presence of 0.1 N sulfuric acid at 80� C. and subsequent neutralization with 0.4 N sodium hydroxide solution) by high-pH anion exchange chomatography with pulsed amerometric detection (HPAE-PAD).
The monosaccaride components were determined (after hydrolysis for 4 h in the presence of 2 N trifluoracetic acid at 100� C. and evaporation to dryness in a SpeedVac) likewise by HPAE-PAD in a motivation of the method described by Hardy et al. (1988) Analytical Biochemistry 170, pp. 54-62.
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on Jun 18, 2013 at 5:20 pm
This was announced by the Burlingame school district in their newsletter on May 28th Web Link
but PUSD has said nothing about his departure, and it was not in the Pleasanton Weekly newspaper during the last 2 weeks.
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of the world's population with TV sets are
now within reach of a digital TV signal. The
figure stands at approximately 55 percent
as of 2012, compared to just 30 percent
in 2008, according to ITU's annual "Measuring
the Information Society 2013." The
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percent of the total number of households
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the developing world.
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|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|Worcestershire sauce
|2 Tablespoon
|Dijon mustard
|1 Tablespoon
|Red wine vinegar
|1 Tablespoon
|Brown sugar
|1 Tablespoon
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|Garlic salt
|1⁄4 Teaspoon
|Celery salt
|1⁄4 Teaspoon
|Cayenne pepper
|1⁄8 Teaspoon
|Beef brisket
|4 Pound
In small bowl, combine catsup, worcestershire sauce, mustard, vinegar, sugar, salt, garlic salt, celery salt and cayenne pepper.
Pierce brisket on both sides with a fork.
Place in 2-quart oblong glass baking dish.
Pour half of sauce over brisket; cover.
Microwave at high (10) 15 minutes.
Microwave at medium (5) 45 minutes.
Turn over and add remaining sauce.
Microwave at medium (5) 45 to 50 minutes until tender.
Let stand, covered, 10 minutes.
TO COOK BY COMBINATION: Insert metal acces sory rack.
Cook on Combination Code 3, 2 14 to 3 hours; turn meat over and add remaining sauce after 1 1/2 hours.
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First, this hotel is 3 stories with no elevator. 17 steps between each floor, and 17 from the main parking level down to the office. There is parking with a ramp to the office level, but a sloping ramp and tough to park on that side. Strong recommendation for older folks to stay away.
The hotel only looks to be clean: I noted a bloodstain on the bed cover, and the bathroom had a definite not-nice odor. Only other serious negative is being 10 min away from Duluth proper.
The staff were friendly. The room was quiet. The beds were reasonably comfortable. The room had a microwave, small frig, safe, and sink w counter away from the (quite small) bathroom. Reasonable 32" flat screen tv, and free wifi. Pricing was on the lower side for Duluth (although still pricy in our opinion). The pool is reasonably sized; nothing special, but good for kids (there were a lot of them). The whirlpool/sauna was in a separate, nice room, but on the 1st floor; 34 steps away from our 3rd floor room, so we decided to skip it.
The hotel probably is a good place for young families. Our recommendation to all others is to stay away.
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This place was great to stay at. I stayed in 2003. At the time there was only one room available, the other was under construction. The owners were very helpful with directions on how to get to the B&B and how to get around the area. It's a pretty quiet area but close to the subway system which doesn't take long to get to the downtown square. From what I remember there was a children's school behind the B&B - was surprised by the school bells. The breakfast provided was also very nice and made to order. Loved that! I would definitely stay again! -- and loved the steep staircase, added to the Amsterdam experience.
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Amor Mundi 7/13/14
Hannah Arendt considered calling her magnum opus Amor Mundi: Love of the World. Instead, she settled upon The Human Condition. What is most difficult, Arendt writes, is to love the world as it is, with all the evil and suffering in it. And yet she came to do just that. Loving the world means neither uncritical acceptance nor contemptuous rejection. Above all it means the unwavering facing up to and comprehension of that which is.
Every Sunday, The Hannah Arendt Center Amor Mundi Weekly Newsletter will offer our favorite essays and blog posts from around the web. These essays will help you comprehend the world. And learn to love it.
On the New Yorker blog, Joshua Rothman explores Virginia Woolf's idea of privacy. Unlike the "citizen's sense of privacy," which is concerned with the divide between public and private life and the need to keep some things unseen by other people, Woolf's novels allude to another, deeper kind of privacy that "preserves the melodies otherwise drowned out by words, stories, information." Concrete and experiential rather than political, Woolf's notion of privacy recognizes an inner core of self, a soul, that must be kept safe from one's own compulsion to examine and analyze. Writes Rothman: "Woolf often conceives of life this way: as a gift that you've been given, which you must hold onto and treasure but never open. Opening it would dispel the atmosphere, ruin the radiance-and the radiance of life is what makes it worth living. It's hard to say just what holding onto life without looking at it might mean; that's one of the puzzles of her books. But it has something to do with preserving life's mystery; with leaving certain things undescribed, unspecified, and unknown; with savoring certain emotions, such as curiosity, surprise, desire, and anticipation. It depends on an intensified sense of life's preciousness and fragility, and on a Heisenberg-like notion that, when it comes to our most abstract and spiritual intuitions, looking too closely changes what we feel. It has to do, in other words, with a kind of inner privacy, by means of which you shield yourself not just from others' prying eyes, but from your own. Call it an artist's sense of privacy." Read more on the Arendt Center blog.
Alexandra Socarides takes some time to (re)think Emily Dickinson's poem "I'm Nobody! Who are you?," which is usually read as a praise of the nobodies and against being somebody. Socarides finds an ode to something entirely different: "This fall I was asked to volunteer at my sons' elementary school, where the fourth graders were writing poetry and needed a little guidance. Despite having once gotten an MFA in Poetry and having taught poetry writing in the years after that, I have almost no memory of how to guide people in the ways of making poems. So, instead, I mostly sat with the students and watched them as they attempted, in their very best moments, to write something beautiful and strange. It was then, watching these kids shift in their prepubescent bodies, hungry and tired and mostly bored, that I found myself saying, over and over again in my head, just as the strangers in my basement had said to me: 'I'm Nobody! Who are you?' This was before I learned about Dickinson and frogs, before I pulled up the manuscripts, tracked down the letters, and returned to Walden to stand, metaphorically speaking, neck-deep in the pond with Thoreau. At this moment the poem simply functioned as an articulation of the alienation that I felt each and every one of those fourth graders knew intimately. To find a friend, and to locate some shared aspect of identity in that friendship, would be to find refuge from all the frogs croaking out on the playground."
In an interview, filmmaker Richard Linklater describes what it was like to make his upcoming Boyhood, for which he worked with a group of actors a few days out of the year for twelve years. The film tracks the growth of a young boy over the same span. Like the boy, Linklater says, he's the same person now as when he started making the film, but there are important ways that he's changed too: "I feel like the exact same person, but I've got twelve more years under the belt. I've got two more kids I didn't have then, I got a bunch more films. I got a bunch more life. This thing was such a life project, it's been a real wonderful demarcation thing, all along the way. Every year you had to ask yourself these questions, you had to really study the world and see it in a new way. I think we should all take on these life projects that just make you - whatever the final result is - pay attention. That's what I like about the arts, that they make you see the world in a way you might not be attuned to. Every film is so much work the subject matter better be something you find infinitely fascinating. If you can just explain it and be done with it, you shouldn't be making it. Every film I've done I'm really feeling my way through that subject - what don't I know, what do I want to discover? And usually in the process of making the film I feel I do get to know what I was after. This, with a twelve year commitment, had to be about something inexhaustible. And that was about growing up, parenting, the culture around it, the world changing. I knew that well would never come close to going dry. And it didn't. It didn't. You had to stay so in touch with these people as they changed, and not just the kids but also the adults. You do that as a parent, you do that as a friend, but it was interesting to see that refracted through this one work of art, that you're trying to take Eller and Lorelei and Ethan and Patricia and you're taking what's going on in their lives and I'm trying to take what went on in my life at that age and my own role as a parent - it was an all-encompassing refraction of the world. It was an incredible collaboration not just amongst us but also between our own parents and the unknown future. But that's the life metaphor here - we're all collaborating constantly with a future we think we're trying to control, but we only can to a certain degree."
Riffing on big public installations by artists Jeff Koons and Kara Walker, Jillian Steinhauer wonders what public art even is: "If you take it to mean a work of art widely available and accessible to the public, then yes, a big sculpture in the middle of Rockefeller Center works fine; if, however, you think about public art as a work that engages with the public, draws them into a conversation - well, then the primary difference between the Walker and the Koons becomes clear. In her book Public Art: Theory, Practice and Populism, art historian Cher Krause Knight cites critic Patricia Phillips and her conception of how art 'becomes fully public': 'it is public because of the kinds of questions it chooses to ask or address, and not because of its accessibility or volume of viewers,' Phillips says. Knight then offers her own addendum: 'To this I would add that art's publicness rests in the quality and impact of its exchanges with audiences.' This extends to the way Koons and Walker approach their subjects: Koons began with a personal object (as many of us do), added a neat formal twist ... and then stopped. Walker's art has long sprung from her identity as a black woman, but she focuses on a place where private narratives overlap with public histories. A Subtlety is no exception. Koons's failure to take this leap speaks to his white male privilege, or his lack of imagination as an artist, or both."
Education as an Introduction to Wonder
Joseph Miller tells the story of Daniel Godinez, a young man from California who found a program designed to groom first generation college students dreary and boring, until he was given the opportunity to do something otherworldly. Since having started to work with a high tech telescope, Godinez has received "county and state science-fair awards; a research mentorship at the University of California, Santa Barbara; a paid teaching assistantship as astronomy tutor at Santa Barbara City College; and a planetarium operator gig at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, which eventually led to a staff position as astronomy programs assistant there." He's also earned a Distinguished Scientist Scholarship to Bard College, where the Arendt Center is located. Godinez's story shows the power of education that allows students to find their own home in the world, of education that excites and interests young people in what is out there in the world, and beyond.
October 9-10The Hannah Arendt Center's annual fall conference, The Unmaking of Americans: Are There Still American Values Worth Fighting For?, will be held this year on October 9-10!
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This Week on the Hannah Aendt Center Blog
This week on the Blog, Martin Wagner uses Arendt to help us appreciate the value of tradition in the digital age in his Quote of the Week. Spanish philosopher and essayist José Ortega y Gasset provides this week's Thought on Thinking. We remember our 2011 Lunchtime Talk with Robert Pogue Harrison on "passionate thinking" in our Video Archives. And Roger Berkowitz reminds us of the importance of privacy in the Weekend Read.
Hannah Arendt in Poland
Submitted by Edyta Kotyńska. "I send you a picture from the WBC library. During the Polish premiere of the film about Hannah Arendt we made a little exhibition about her."
Amor Mundi 10/27/13
Hannah Arendt considered calling her magnum opus Amor Mundi: Love of the World. Instead, she settled upon The Human Condition. What is most difficult, Arendt writes, is to love the world as it is, with all the evil and suffering in it. And yet she came to do just that. Loving the world means neither uncritical acceptance nor contemptuous rejection. Above all it means the unwavering facing up to and comprehension of that which is.
Every Sunday, The Hannah Arendt Center Amor Mundi Weekly Newsletter will offer our favorite essays and blog posts from around the web. These essays will help you comprehend the world. And learn to love it.
Drones are simply one weapon in a large arsenal with which we fight the war on terror. Even targeted killings, the signature drone capability, are nothing new. The U.S. and other countries have targeted and killed individual leaders for decades if not centuries, using snipers, poisons, bombs, and many other technologies. To take a historical perspective, drones don't change much. Nor is the airborne capacity of drones to deliver devastation from afar anything new, having as its predecessors the catapult, the long bow, the bomber, and the cruise missile. And yet, there is seemingly something new about the way drones change the feel and reality of warfare. On one side, drones sanitize the battlefield from a space of blood, fear, and heroic fortitude into a video game played on consoles. On the other side, drones dominate life, creating a low pitched humming sound that reminds inhabitants that at any moment a missile might pierce their daily routines. The two sides of this phenomenology of drones is the topic of an essay by Nasser Hussain in The Boston Review: "In order to widen our vision, I provide a phenomenology of drone strikes, examining both how the world appears through the lens of a drone camera and the experience of the people on the ground. What is it like to watch a drone's footage, or to wait below for it to strike? What does the drone's camera capture, and what does it occlude?" You can also read Roger Berkowitz's weekend read on seeing through drones.
The Loss of the Christian Tradition
Marilynne Robinson, speaking to the American Conservative about her faith, elaborates on what she sees as the central flaws in contemporary American Christianity: "Something I find regrettable in contemporary Christianity is the degree to which it has abandoned its own heritage, in thought and art and literature. It was at the center of learning in the West for centuries—because it deserved to be. Now there seems to be actual hostility on the part of many Christians to what, historically, was called Christian thought, as if the whole point were to get a few things right and then stand pat. I believe very strongly that this world, these billions of companions on earth that we know are God's images, are to be loved, not only in their sins, but especially in all that is wonderful about them. And as God is God of the living, that means we ought to be open to the wonderful in all generations. These are my reasons for writing about Christian figures of the past. At present there is much praying on street corners. There are many loud declarations of personal piety, which my reading of the Gospels forbids me to take at face value. The media are drawn by noise, so it is difficult to get a sense of the actual state of things in American religious culture."
Is poetry going the way of the Dodo bird? Vanessa Place makes this argument in a recent essay "Poetry is Dead. I Killed It," on the Poetry Foundation website. And Kenneth Goldsmith, in the New Yorker, asks whether Place is right. The internet, he suggests, has killed or at least so rethought poetry that it may be unrecognizable. "Quality is beside the point—this type of content is about the quantity of language that surrounds us, and about how difficult it is to render meaning from such excesses. In the past decade, writers have been culling the Internet for material, making books that are more focussed [sic] on collecting than on reading. These ways of writing—word processing, databasing, recycling, appropriating, intentionally plagiarizing, identity ciphering, and intensive programming, to name just a few—have traditionally been considered outside the scope of literary practice."
In a rare interview, famously reclusive Calvin and Hobbes cartoonist Bill Watterson prognosticates on the future of the comics: "Personally, I like paper and ink better than glowing pixels, but to each his own. Obviously the role of comics is changing very fast. On the one hand, I don't think comics have ever been more widely accepted or taken as seriously as they are now. On the other hand, the mass media is disintegrating, and audiences are atomizing. I suspect comics will have less widespread cultural impact and make a lot less money. I'm old enough to find all this unsettling, but the world moves on. All the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and versatile, so I think they'll continue to find relevance one way or another. But they definitely won't be the same as what I grew up with."
Cambodian director Rithy Panh's new movie, The Missing Picture is about the rule of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. In making the film, he had to confront the challenge of making a movie about atrocities that are famously without explicit visual records, and he hit upon a unique solution: clay dolls. Although these figures "are necessarily silent, immobile, and therefore devoid of the intensity of those moments in other Panh films where his camera bores in on the face of a witness and lingers there as he remembers what happened, or what he did," Richard Bernstein suggests that they give the movie a unique power.
From the Hannah Arendt Center Blog
This week on the blog, Ian Storey revisits George Orwell's prescient essay, "Politics and the English Language." Jeffrey Champlin looks at James Muldoon's essay about Arendt's writngs on the advocacy of council systems in On Revolution. And your weekend read looks at the cultural impact of drones on the nations and groups that are employing them.
Amor Mundi – 6/2/13
Hannah Arendt considered calling her magnum opus Amor Mundi: Love of the World. Instead, she settled upon The Human Condition. What is most difficult, Arendt writes, is to love the world as it is, with all the evil and suffering in it. And yet she came to do just that. Loving the world means neither uncritical acceptance nor contemptuous rejection. Above all it means the unwavering facing up to and comprehension of that which is.
Every Sunday, The Hannah Arendt Center Amor Mundi Weekly Newsletter will offer our favorite essays and blog posts from around the web. These essays will help you comprehend the world. And learn to love it.
In the Paris Review, Roger Berkowitz argues that Margarethe von Trotta's new movie "Hannah Arendt" is "The Most Sophisticated Reading Yet of Arendt's Philosophy to Reach the Mainstream." The core of the film is its subtle and enthralling attempt to exemplify the act of thinking. As Berkowitz writes, "It is her silent intensity, throughout the film, that strikes the viewer, propels us to think with Arendt about what she is observing and its implications. The audience is thus transformed, moving from observing Arendt to thinking with her.... The thinking Arendt demands requires pride, a feeling of difference between oneself and others-even a kind of arrogance, an arrogance that von Trotta seizes on screen. The film honestly addresses this characteristic of Arendt and of thinking itself, and does not shirk from Arendt's belief that a confidence in one's own distinctiveness is necessary for character. Like Emerson's, Arendt's writing celebrates self-reliance. For her, our democratic desire for equality-to be the same as others and to not judge them-compounds the problem of thoughtlessness."
On the topic of thinking and arrogance, Nitin Nohria believes that we often judge the actions of others with a kind of moral overconfidence, and that, accordingly, "we like to sort the world into good people who had stable and enduringly strong, positive characters, and bad people who had weak or frail characters." Nohria believes that by "thinking hard about what it is about situations that are more likely to tempt us and what it is that are about situations that are more likely to give us moral courage," we can overcome a less than useful categorization.
In a wide ranging essay on books, reading, and writing, Rebecca Solnit pauses to praise the library: "Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers onto it: here in quiet rooms are the lives of Crazy Horse and Aung San Suu Kyi, the Hundred Years War and the Opium Wars and the Dirty War, the ideas of Simone Weil and Lao Tsu, information on building your sailboat or dissolving your marriage, fictional worlds and books to equip the reader to reenter the real world. They are, ideally, places where nothing happens and where everything that has happened is stored up to be remembered and relived, the place where the world is folded up into boxes of paper. Every book is a door that opens into another world, which might be the magic that all those children's books were alluding to, and a library is a Milky Way of worlds. All readers are Wu Daozi; all imaginative, engrossing books are landscapes into which readers vanish."
Seeking Out One You've Wronged
Helen Epstein remembers the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Melita Maschmann's Account Rendered. The book, a memoir of Maschmann's activities as a Nazi, is addressed to an unnamed Jewish friend, an approach which sparked a brief correspondence with Hannah Arendt. Epstein sought out the addressee, believed to be one Marianne Schweitzer who now lives in California, to ask her about her girlhood relationship with Maschmann.
Walter Russell Mead takes on General Stanley McChrystal's recent call for Universal National Service. We at the Arendt Center, as part of the Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College, are big believers in the importance of public service. But Mead has some typically smart quibbles: "The devil is in the details, and we suspect it will be a long time before a national service program works really well. After all, America has been trying to give every kid in the country a good high school experience for almost 100 years, and spending a lot of money on it. The goal of providing meaningful service opportunities to millions of kids is probably even harder to reach. These programs often work best on a small scale and deteriorate dramatically when blown up to giant proportions. We suspect that the various Agencies of Official Voluntarism that Stan wants to set up would become ineffective and expensive hotbeds of mediocrity before much time had passed. One of the things a culture of voluntarism and service is about is reducing dependence on government; more leadership from religious and other private groups and less official involvement from the Ministry of Joy might mean a slower start but a more satisfying performance in the long run."
June 5, 2013 at Film Forum, 209 W. Houston St., NYC at 6:30 PM
Film followed by a Q&A with Hannah Arendt Center Academic Director, Roger Berkowitz
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From the Hannah Arendt Center Blog
This week on the blog, A.O. Scott gives a rave review to Margarethe von Trotta's Hannah Arendt.Thomas Wild considers Arendt's thought that Americans might be too busy. And the Arendt Center worries about the febrile imagination of Arendt haters. Finally, in the Weekend Read,Roger Berkowitz counters the new common sense, that Arendt was right in general but wrong about Eichmann.
Margarethe von Trotta on Hannah Arendt
Germany's Deutschlandfunk Radio program recently broadcast an interview with Margarethe von Trotta about her new film "Hannah Arendt." The film is now set to be released on May 29 in the U.S. by Zeitgeist Films. The Hannah Arendt Center will be hosting an opening night screening at the Film Forum in NYC. More information to follow.
The radio interview is in German. We offer here in translation von Trotta's response to Susanne Berg's first question:
Susanne Berg: How important is it today to come to terms with Hannah Arendt?
Margarita von Trotta: I think Hannah Arendt was one of the most important people and thinkers of the last century. And we are not yet through with the last century. Particularly as Germans the century will pursue us for a long time. I say always, that Hitler wanted a 1,000 year Reich. It lasted only 12 years. But we will have to deal with it for 1,000 years. In this regard we cannot now say, yeah, it's the 21st century, now it is all in the past. And as I saw the documentary over the Eichmann trial—there is a wonderful film called "The Specialist" by an Israeli, I thought then for the first time, this I want this man in a film. And that was still before I knew that I would describe Hannah Arendt. It was because he showed me what Germany was. Not the greats, not Hitler, not Göring, not Goebbels, all these whom we have in our memory as one can say evil. But these mediocre and middling people, they have formed history.
The reference is to Eyal Sivan's fascinating and controversial documentary about the Eichmann trial. You can watch short excerpt here.
The Irony of Sincerity
A few weeks ago, Christy Wampole, a professor of French at Princeton, took to the New York Times to point to what she sees as a pandemic of irony, the symptom of a malignant hipster culture which has metastasized, spreading out from college campuses and hip neighborhoods and into the population at large. Last week, author R. Jay Magill responded to Wampole, noting that the professor was a very late entry into an analysis of irony that stretches back to the last gasps of the 20th century, and that even that discourse fits into a much longer conversation about sincerity and irony that has been going on at least since Diogenes.
Of course, this wasn't Magill's first visit to this particular arena; his own entry, entitled Sincerity: How a Moral Ideal Born Five Hundred Years Ago Inspired Religious Wars, Modern Art, Hipster Chic, and the Curious Notion That We All Have Something to Say (No Matter How Dull), came out in July. Magill very effectively recapitulates the main point from his book in his article for the Atlantic, but, if you were to read this new summary alone, you would both deny yourself of some of the pleasures of Magill's research and prose, as well as spare yourself from some of his less convincing arguments, arguments which, incidentally, happen to suffice for the thrust of his recent article.
The most interesting chapters of Magill's book deal with the early history of the rise of sincerity, which he traces back to the Reformation. In Magill's telling, the word "sincere" enters the record of English in 1533, when an English reformer named John Frith writes, to Sir Thomas More, that John Wycliffe "had lived 'a very sincere life.'" Before that use, in its origin in Latin and French, the word "sincere" had only been used to describe objects and, now, Frith was using it not only for the first time in English but also to describe a particular individual as unusually true and pure to his self, set in opposition to the various hypocrisies that had taken root within the Catholic Church. Magill sums this up quite elegantly: "to be sincere" he writes "was to be reformed."
Now, this would have been revolutionary enough, since it suggested that a relationship with God required internal confirmation rather than external acclamation—in the words of St. Paul, a fidelity to the spirit of the law and not just the letter. And yet reformed sincerity was not simply a return to the Gospel. In order to be true to one's self, there must be a self to accord with, an internal to look towards. Indeed, Magill's history of the idea of sincerity succeeds when it describes the development of the self, and, in particular, that development as variably determined by the internal or the external.
It gets more complicated, however, or perhaps more interesting, when Magill turns towards deceptive presentations of the self, that is, when he begins to talk about insincerity. He begins this conversation with Montaigne, who "comes to sense a definite split between his public and private selves and is the first author obsessed with portraying himself as he really is." The most interesting appearance of this conversation is an excellent chapter on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who suggested that people should aspire to self-sameness, should do their best to "reconcile" one's self to one's self, a demand for authenticity that would come to be fully expressed in Immanuel Kant's moral law, the command that I must set myself as a law for myself.
Sincerity, the moral ideal first put forth by John Frith, started as the Reformation's response to the inability of the Catholic Church to enact that particular principle, in other words, its hypocrisy. This follows for each of the movements that Magill writes about, each responding to the hypocrisy of their own moment in a specific way. On this matter he has a very good teacher, Hannah Arendt, an inheritor of Kant, who was himself a reader of Rousseau. Arendt writes, in Crisis of the Republic, what might serve as a good summation of one of Magill's more convincing arguments: "if we inquire historically into the causes likely to transform engagés into enragés, it is not injustice that ranks first, but hypocrisy."
Still, while what makes the sincerity of Frith (who was burned at the stake) or Wycliffe (whose body was exhumed a half century after his death so that it, too, could be burned) compelling is the turn inwards, it is Rousseau's substitution of the turn back for that turn inward that appears to interest Magill, who decries "the Enlightenment understanding of the world" that "would entirely dominate the West, relegating Rousseau to that breed of reactionary artististic and political minds who stood against the progress of technology, commerce, and modernization and pined for utopia."
The whole point is moot; Rousseau was himself a hypocrite, often either unable or unwilling to enact the principles he set out in his writings. As Magill moves forward, though, it becomes clear the he values the turn back as a manifestation of sincerity, as a sort of expressing oneself honestly. The last few hundred years in the development of sincerity, it seems, are finding new iterations of the past in the self. He writes that the Romantics, a group he seems to favor as more sincere than most, "harbored a desire to escape a desire to escape forward-moving, rational civilization by worshipping nature, emotion, love, the nostalgic past, the bucolic idyll, violence, the grotesque, the mystical, the outcast and, failing these, suicide." In turn, in his last chapter, Magill writes that hipster culture serves a vital cultural purpose: its "sincere remembrance of things past, however commodified or cheesy or kitschy or campy or embarrassing, remains real and small and beautiful because otherwise these old things are about to be discarded by a culture that bulldozes content once it has its economic utility."
The hipster, for Magill, is not the cold affectation of an unculture, as Wampole wants to claim, but is instead the inheritor "of the the entire history of the Protestant-Romantic-rebellious ethos that has aimed for five hundred years to jam a stick into the endlessly turning spokes of time, culture and consumption and yell, "Stop! I want to get off!"
There's the rub. What Magill offers doesn't necessarily strike me as a move towards sincerity, but it is definitely a nod to nostalgia. Consider how he recapitulates his argument in the article:
One need really only look at what counts as inventive new music, film, or art. Much of it is stripped down, bare, devoid of over-production, or aware of its production—that is, an irony that produces sincerity. Sure, pop music and Jeff Koons alike retain huge pull (read: $$$), but lately there has been a return to artistic and musical genres that existed prior to the irony-debunking of 9/11: early punk, disco, rap, New Wave—with a winking nod to sparse Casio keyboard sounds, drum machines, naïve drawing, fake digital-look drawings, and jangly, Clash-like guitars. Bands like Arcade Fire, Metric, Scissor Sisters, CSS, Chairlift, and the Temper Trap all go in for heavy nostalgia and an acknowledgement of a less self-conscious, more D.I.Y. time in music.
Here, Magill is very selectively parsing the recent history of "indie music," ignoring a particularly striking embrace of artificial pop music that happened alongside the rise of the "sincere" genres, like new folk, that he favors. There's no reason to assume that Jeff Koons's blown up balloon animals or Andy Warhol's Brillo Boxes are any less sincere than the Scissor Sisters's camp disco, just as there is no reason to assume that a desire to return to nature is any less sincere than the move into the city. Although Magill makes a good argument for the hipster's cultural purpose, that purpose is not itself evidence that the hipster is expressing what's truly inside himself, just as there's no way for you to be sure that I am sincerely expressing my feelings about Sincerity. Magill, ultimately, makes the same mistake as Wampole, in that he judges with no evidence; the only person you can accurately identify as sincere is yourself.
-Josh Kopin


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