Some Reflections on Critical-Text Editing

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...

Critical Reflections on Regulation

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 talc poudrage.

We read with interest the well researched article of Stefani et al. [1] about the different techniques of intrapleural talc. This technical paper really filled the gap in our knowledge following established evidences of superiority of the talc itself [2,3] over other products. We have a question and two comments. Could we be provided with data on the size of the talc particles? This intriguing ...

Some reflections on racial profiling.

of the Editor. The authors were invited specifically to critique, or use as a stimulus, an article that appeared in the New York Times Magazine (June 20, 1999). The article, entitled "The Color of Suspicion" and authored by Jeffrey Goldberg, was an analysis of the practice that has come to be commonly known as racial profiling, articulated by Goldberg as "the stopping and searching of blacks be...