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Likewise, although Barzilai never mentions either Derrida or Agamben, it would not be going too far to say that in her account of how the golem represents the human fantasy of complete mastery over the conditions of its birth and death, the golem is Agamben's anthropological machine turned against itself, bare life reclaiming its power to destroy every form of violent dominion.

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Chapter 1 focuses on Paul Wegener's three golem films.

The golem of Prague, the guardian of Bohemian Jewry, may have inspired Czech playwright Karel Capek's R.U.R., the play that gave us the word "robot."

She had the gall to blame it all on a golem. Golem, indeed!

Members of the city's drug enforcement unit led by Chief Inspector Jowilouie Bilaro launched a buy-bust operation against Golem in Barangay Malinta around 8 p.m.

Golem's cohort, Ranny Manalastas, was nabbed by police.

And as wild rumours abound that the mythical Golem is responsible for a killing, when the ageing detective is sent to investigate, he stumbles across a second murder case which may be connected.

Written to be accessible to students, scholars, and general readers, this work examines the use of the golem, the Yiddish legend of a protective yet rebellious clay monster, in representations of war in mass visual culture, such as films and comic books, over the past 100 years.

Hanging over the gallery door--rather like a prize swordfish mounted over a sailing club's entrance--was the fabulous, iridescent blue-green Golem. With its tessellated, reptilian skin voluptuously shaped into waves, and frothy curls along its edges resembling ocean foam, Golem suggests the lab-grown scales of some cloned, prehistoric sea monster.

Jorge Luis Borges's poem "El Golem," published in 1958 in Davar and included in El otro, el mismo in 1964, depicts a rabbi's creation of a golem, an artificial, anthropomorphic clay form that is endowed with life through the secrets of the Sacred Scriptures.