by Charles Cameron | Mar 22, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a brief note on my own bi-focal vision, with appreciation to Marina Warner ] . ** I was just reading Marina Warner‘s recent essay On Magic — and protective magic in particular — and was struck by the phrase: Calligraphic...
by Charles Cameron | Jan 17, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — you may not want to watch the video – read the text first, okay? ] . Here’s what the BBC-wallah said: The Christians were victims; now they’re on top. It’s a dangerous time to be Muslim. A charred and dismembered...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 22, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — taking a hint from the twitter stream of HSM Press and running with it ] Update: As of Monday morning 11am California time: I now think it’s clear that the twitter stream I was commenting on in this post and the second in the series...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 7, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — here Dr Furnish explores and explains the rival eschatologies afoot in the Syrian conflict ] . The New Mahdi, from http://ghareb.deviantart.com/art/Ahat-ALGhareb-107961264 via Furnish . Timothy Furnish has a new post up on Syria at his...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 22, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — the first O of OODA, as one photographer applied it to Mubarak’s destiny ] . Angel's Trumpet, Brugmansia arborea, image credit BH&G . As you all know, I am fascinated by the intersection of the poetic (sacramental,...