Center for Strategic Communication

Two beauties, or how the mind meanders

by | Jun 16, 2013 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — on the proposition that no topic is more than a link or two away from beauty ] . I was butting in on a conversation about terrorism between JM Berger and Suzanne Schroeder — JM had said something about me and I chipped in, one link...

Manhunt: religion and the director’s eye

by | Jun 8, 2013 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — with an assist from Wm Benzon, under-appreciated and brilliant film and literary critic, musician, author of Beethoven’s Anvil ] . Screen-time is valuable: movie directors don’t just throw it away. Here are screen-grabs of two...

A feast of form in my twitter-stream today

by | Jun 2, 2013 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — forms & patterns, pattern recognition & creative leaps, creative leaps & connecting dots, connecting dots & node-and-edge mapping — node-and-edge mapping, link charts and Sembl-HipBone games ] . . There’s no...

Love, Death, and Jihad by Pen and Sword

by | May 29, 2013 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — with Wagner and Abu Dujana as examples, the cognitive sting here is in the tail — the power of a double image to engage both emotion and insight ] . Love and death. ** The human mind thinks in parallelisms and oppositions. My lords,...