by Charles Cameron | Sep 9, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — with a Magnus Ransdorp squib in its tail ] . The issue is complexity, and how you represent it. The case in point is Syria. Here’s a diagram that suggests complexity as a sort of crazy weaving, all straight lines and colors: This...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 17, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — borders and distinctions from Trump to Revelation, plus one ] . Donald Trump‘s “three core principles of real immigration reform”: 1. A nation without borders is not a nation. ** G Spencer-Brown wrote of his book. Laws of...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 13, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — in which the muj from Khorasan talk even more about the erasing of national boundaries than the soldiers of the IS caliphate ] . Before there were maps, there was terrain, some of it populated, and various populations spoke various...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 11, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — nightmare of the cartographers ] . Let Yassin Musharbash have the first word: The #ISIS Narrative of eliminating the Sykes-Pikot-Borders? You have to admit: Good choice of a narrative. Resonates with many. #Mosul — yassin musharbash...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 14, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — from the Crimea to jihad, via “perhaps the most famous move in the history of go” ] . As usual, my interest here is not in the geo-polemics of the affair, which I leave to others, but in the formal properties of the...
