Re-animate

It was possible, and sometimes she thought it probable, that his affection might be re-animated, and the influence of his friends successfully combated by the more natural influence of Jane’s attractions.

Perhaps a corpse would be re-animated; galvanism had given token of such things: perhaps the component parts of a creature might be manufactured, brought together, and endued with vital warmth.

It was because there was no inspiration in the debased dogmas, in the decried instructions of paganism; it was because creeds, which are the life of the soul, were withdrawn from men; genius had to be re-animated under vigorous conditions; human thought had to be elevated; heaven had to be implored for what could not be found on earth.

Although diehard DOOMers will no doubt revel in killing the thrice re-animated creatures, this is essentially a dead game in more ways than one.

The Objectives noted that: […] • the district of la Villette had to be re-animated – the park was not so much a lung as a heart

After the geth secure a location, they round up and impale dead and living bodies on mechanical spikes. The spikes rapidly transform these victims into withered husks, extracting water and trace minerals and replacing them with cybernetics. The cybernetics re-animate the lifeless flesh and tissue, transforming the bodies into mindless killing machines.

This scene re-members the Rembrandt painting The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp from 1632. The image honours the once famous Dutch physician, his contribution to medical science and a number of his contemporary surgeon colleagues who are also captured in the moment. It suggests that medicine has long depended on re-animating corpses for its own epistemological and legitimising ends.