Center for Strategic Communication

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,...

Hezbollah and related graphics

by | May 26, 2013 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — insights into symbolism on both sides of the Syrian conflict, including Nasrallah as Dajjal and Pinocchio, Star Trek darkness, more ] . I thought it might be instructive to compare the Hezbollah flag: with a couple of variants seen...

Jottings 7: Two for the iconography of terror

by | May 7, 2013 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — taking a break from my pressing writerly duties ] . I wouldn’t have noticed these two offerings quite so clearly if I hadn’t been pointed to each of them in the last couple of days. Both look to be of considerable interest:...