Spatial Displays and Spatial Instruments

The conference proceedings topics are divided into two main areas: (1) issues of spatial and picture perception raised by graphical electronic displays of spatial information; and (2) design questions raised by the practical experience of designers actually defining new spatial instruments for use in new aircraft and spacecraft. Each topic is considered from both a theoretical and an applied direction. Emphasis is placed on discussion of phenomena and determination of design principles

Background paper

This paper describes applications of synthetic-environment technologies in simulating combat. This background paper is the first of several publications of the OTA’S assessment of combat modeling and simulation

Activismo político a través de la poesía performativa en Estados Unidos : de Walt Whitman a Allen Ginsberg

Tesis inédita de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, leída el 22-10-2021This dissertation has its first prompt in the common scholarly association between the two American poets Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg, who vindicated the oral character of poetry as an alternative path for political activism. The nationally tense historical moments they lived (Civil War, McCarthyism, Vietnam War) made them conceive their writing as a shortcut for the citizens’ complete emancipation within democracy. Both founded their ideas in the romantic conception of language, defined in literary theory by Jacques Derrida as pneumological and phonocentrist: it is in oral language and speech where the pure form of communication, the true meaning of what is said, resides. In poetry, these two authors find the key to fight, through a speech-based poetics, an alternative against the corrupted logocracy of the State. Thus, within the framework of their own political career as Americans, who came to exist with a speech act (the Declaration of Independence), Whitman and Ginsberg aim to point at and inaugurate from the performative act both the poet and the new and alternative nation.Este estudio surge de la comúnmente señalada asociación de los poetas estadounidenses Walt Whitman y Allen Ginsberg, ambos defensores de una poesía oral como método de activismo político. Ante dos escenarios históricos de tensión nacional (Guerra Civil, Macartismo, Guerra de Vietnam), estos autores encontraron en su escritura una forma alternativa de lucha por la emancipación del ciudadano en democracia. Los dos cimientan sus ideas en una concepción romántica del lenguaje, definida desde la teoría literaria por Jacques Derrida como pneumológica y fonocentrista: es en el habla, en el lenguaje oral, donde reside el verdadero significado de lo dicho, la rigurosa expresión del individuo. Es pues en el género de la poesía donde encuentran ese código puro de comunicación, frente a la corrupta logocracia del Estado. Así, en el marco de una trayectoria política en la cual la nación se crea con un acto de habla (la Declaración de Independencia), Whitman y Ginsberg se proponen, desde el acto performativo, señalar e inaugurar al poeta estadounidense, encargado a su vez de señalar e inaugurar una nación y un estado alternativos...Fac. de FilologíaTRUEunpu