REMEMBERING ISLAM

Remembering Islam

Introduction Jean Baudrillard suggested we "forget Foucault" because his status as one of the greatest thinkers of the West in this century belied his commitment against state power.A similar criticism may be levied against Habermas, whose ideal communication community merely reproduces and perpetuates so-called Magazine Rack modern secular Western

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Mirrors of the Soul

Scenes of avarna castes (slave and intermediate castes) pondering their reflections recur throughout the history of anti-caste struggle in the princely state of Travancore Empty Capsules in colonial-era south India.These scenes represent what I will call performative egalitarianisms, which are repetitive enactments in the performance of everyday li

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Low-Power Pedestrian Detection System on FPGA

Pedestrian detection is one of the key problems in the emerging self-driving car industry.In addition, the Histogram of Gradients (HOG) algorithm proved to provide good accuracy for pedestrian detection.Many research works focused on accelerating HOG algorithm on FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) due to its low-power and high-throughput characte

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