Reflections Away From War, by Alka

Reflections on War and Death

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...

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This chapter introduces the Random Modulation Pre-Integrator (RMPI) and details the status of an integrated circuit implementing the architecture. To our knowledge, this is the first full-speed hardware RMPI in existence. The goal of this chapter is to describe some key parameters of the RMPI that are essential to its performance. This is not a hardware chapter and does not go into detail of th...

Afro-American Identity: Reflections on the Pre-Civil War Era

I am told that there are Haitians able to trace their ancestry back to African kings. but any American Negro wishing to go back so far will find his journey through time abruptly arrested by the signature on the bill ofsale which served as the entrance paper for his ancestor. At the time-to say nothing ofthe circumstances-ofthe enslavement ofthe captive black man who was to become the American ...

HEARING IMPAIRMENT CAUSED BY WAR

120 cases of Iranian soldiers complaining of hearing loss, were studied over a period of three years at the Ghaem Medical Center in Mashad,Iran. There was adequate information in III cases that their engagement in different types of explosions had caused their hearing impairment. The following aspects were evaluated: 1- Categorization of their hearing impairment. 2- The otoscopic findings...