Center for Strategic Communication

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”...

AQ branding, ISIS cool for school

[ by Charles Cameron — AQ & Friends have adopted another of our technologies against us — this time it’s branding — what’s next — gamification? ] . Aymenn J Al-Tamimi tweeted to alert us to the ISIS school bag today, with the...

Mostly it’s religion, now and then it’s sports

[ by Charles Cameron — beheadings and the questions they raise ] . ** Tim Furnish, friend of this blog, had a piece titled Beheading in the Name of Islam in the Middle East Quarterly back in 2005, in which he wrote: The February 2002 decapitation of Wall Street...

Of dualities, contradictions and the nonduality

[ by Charles Cameron — on the basis, the mathematics, the essence of conflict and resolution ] . . This DoubleQuote features two great masters on duality and the coincidentia oppositorum: the upper quote is Yogi Berra at his best, a koan worthy of a discourse by...