Critical management studies: some reflections

Virilio, War, and Technology: Some Critical Reflections

Paul Virilio is one of the most prolific and penetrating critics of the drama of technology in the contemporary era, especially military technology, technologies of representation, and new computer and information technologies. For Virilio, the question of technology is the question of our time and his life-work constitutes a sustained reflection on the origins, nature, and effects of the key t...

Some Reflections on Studies in Humanities Computing

In any academic field, research advances tend to percolate naturally to higher education in that field. In recent years, there has been a slow but steady increase in the number of courses and degree programmes in humanities computing. This paper presents some reflections on the status of humanities computing in higher education, in terms of curricula, degrees, and international student and staf...

Some Critical Reflections to Peer Review System in Arabic

Peer reviewing is the common way used for validating writings and requests of financing in order to measure and to test their property, possibility and strictness, etcetera; and, in spite of its failures, faults and mistakes, it seems the best way to get quality assurance for scientific publishing. Nevertheless, there are many people who are in disagreement with this methodology and criticize i...

Some Reflections on Meditation Research and Consciousness Studies

ترجمه بخشی از کتاب "critical readings in translation studies"

چکیده در دنیای پیچیده ی امروز، تغییرات زیادی در زندگی بشری در حال وقوع اند و شاهد رقابت های بسیار فشرده ی جوامع در دستیابی به فناوری برتر و قدرت بیشترهستیم. به نظر می رسد که فرد وجامعه مجبورند به طریقی در وضعیت خویش دگرگونی ایجاد کنند تا از قافله ی علم، فناوری، و پیشرفت عقب نمانند. رشته مطالعات ترجمه نیز از این قاعده مستثنا نیست. علی رغم وسعت روز افزون پژوهش در این حوزه و میان رشته ای بودن مطال...