by zen | Aug 29, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] ISIS or the Islamic State “Caliphate” is the focus of a great deal of discussion and demands for action from the United States – and also inaction – from many quarters. What is to be done? That is...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 22, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — moving from magic to sacrament and from word to world — with implications for the study of terrorism and torture ] . Roger Wagner, 1984: The Harvest Is the End of the World and the Reapers Are the Angels ** Tara Isabella Burton, in a...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 15, 2014 | Monitor
[ 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...
by Charles Cameron | Jan 24, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — consider my mind once again blown, but not at all surprised ] . You may or may not all have seen this — I don’t watch TV, so such things only reach me if they crop up in my usually pristine Twitter feed — but here is a...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 14, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — an intriguing example of enantiodromia aka reversal or the hairpin bend ] . Let’s start with this tweet from Glenn Greenwald on September 11th 2013, a dozen years on from that tragic day: A coalition of current and former military,...
