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 | Feb 9, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a mental long-jump, following Sceenius: the macro in micro, Nepal ] . It’s a stretch, I know, and whether it will prove a useful leap or not I have no idea — but for the record, this detail from slide 8 of the Sceenius promo...
by Charles Cameron | Oct 26, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — architectural history as a question in philosophy — Palmyra ] . Future? A jailed activist’s 3-D models could save Syria’s history from ISIS https://t.co/4YjbSuaOwB pic.twitter.com/K8daGICoUW — WIRED (@WIRED) October 21, 2015...
by Charles Cameron | May 7, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — some angles on Boko Haram ]. . Boko Haram is irreducibly complex, quoth Tehu Cole: I understand the impulse to "do something." But Boko Haram is irreducibly complex. Makes Kony look like child's play. http://t.co/Vv3pYiycqK...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 24, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — in which I suggest that reality may be more like a river, our understandings more like canals ] . Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, "Moon of Enlightenment" from One Hundred Views of the Moon ** I read a couple of things this morning that...
