Center for Strategic Communication

Of a flag and the blood of martyrs

[ by Charles Cameron — how, where and why the name, the map, and the flag merge into reality — Gregory Bateson to the rescue ] . I am indebted for this screengrab to Phillip Smyth, whose recent Singing Hizballah’s Tune in Manama: Why Are Bahrain’s...

Warren McCulloch’s lifetime koan

[ by Charles Cameron — from intuitive leap to confirmation in a celebrated paper by neurophysiologist and cybernetician Warren McCulloch ] . As I mentioned in my earlier post, Close reading, Synoptic- and Sembl-style, for parallels, patterns, there are times...

Serpent logic and related

[ by Charles Cameron — where paradox begets form in phrasing, redux ] . Here for your entertainment and entrainment are some further instances where the tweet doubles back on itself, bites its tail, or otherwise embodies some form of “form”...