[7]‘That the Survey had seldom, if ever, felt compelled to ask such a question as it pored over the ruins of Germany spoke to the sheer psychic effect of the magnitude of the new weapon’: Tom Vanderbilt,Survival City:Adventures among the ruins of Atomic America(Princeton: Princeton Archi...
To estimate the values of the variable ‘years of schooling’, we started by identifying individuals aged 24 years and over (hereafter individuals) from question ‘age’ of ENEMDU (INEC,2020), in both databases (60,962 and 54,822 in 2014 and 2021, respectively) (INEC,2022a). To spatia...
themes raised, critical stances adopted, and political prerogatives foregrounded. Notwithstanding, it is possible to categorize new directions along the next three following lines of inquiry,
November 28, 2012 I had just finished jotting myupdateto the IDF’s use of social media whenAlex Vasudevandrew my attention to this brilliant, searing and deeply disturbingessaybyHuw Lemmeyat theNew Inquiry, ‘Devastation in Meatspace’: The missile rushing over your head was processed through ...
Solatia(the term for money the U.S. pays to the families of civilian dead), sets out to answer that question. In all its wars, the United States both condemns and causes civilian casualties. But what exactly constitutes a civilian casualty? Why do they occur? What do our officials know...
First, contemporary practices of violence necessitate a different conception of the subject as embodied. Understanding the dynamics of violence means that our conceptual frameworks cannot remain ‘disembodied’. My work builds on feminist and biopolitical perspectives that make the question of embodiment ce...
ve had occasion to comment on this dilemma before – thedispersal of responsibilitythat is a characteristic of later modern war (see alsohere: scroll down) – andEugene Fiddell,writingin theNew York Times,clearly dismayed at the way in which the military inquiry was conducted, sharpens the ...
ve had occasion to comment on this dilemma before – thedispersal of responsibilitythat is a characteristic of later modern war (see alsohere: scroll down) – andEugene Fiddell,writingin theNew York Times,clearly dismayed at the way in which the military inquiry was conducted, sharpens the ...
For Bousquet this future of globalised targeting that the birth of linear perspective has brought us to throws the role of the human into question. With the move of perception into the realm of the technical, Bousquet sees that perception has become a process without a subject, and as human ...
He explained toMG Timothy McHale, who lead the subsequent inquiry, what he meant: The Ground Force Commander reported that he ‘wouldn’t take photos of the KIA [Killed in Action] – but of the strike’, yet it proved impossible to maintain a clinical distinction between them (see the ri...