by Charles Cameron | Aug 20, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — fascinated as always by the interweave of worlds ] . If not causality, then at least correlation? Batman goes to Iraq to save the caliphate from the Joker, and other parallels; my latest http://t.co/7PECNZX9O0 pic.twitter.com/rkciaYLv79...
by zen | Jan 23, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] Lewis Shepherd, formerly of the DIA and IC and recently of Microsoft, has an outstanding post on Microsoft’s exciting ambient/holographic computing interface HoloLens. What I saw in the videos is stunning and I then...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 22, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a brief note on my own bi-focal vision, with appreciation to Marina Warner ] . ** I was just reading Marina Warner‘s recent essay On Magic — and protective magic in particular — and was struck by the phrase: Calligraphic...
by zen | Dec 14, 2012 | Monitor
The Violent Image by Neville Bolt Columbia University Press just sent me a review copy of The Violent Image, by Dr. Neville Bolt of King’s College vaunted War Studies Department. Initially, I was amused by the colorful book jacket, but flipping through, it...
by Charles Cameron | Oct 6, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a follow up to my previous post — and it’s not religion that’s the alternate reality this time, but games ] . . I just posted a long and potentially contentious post about what I called a person / position paradox: that...
