Center for Strategic Communication

Liminality II: the serious part

[ by Charles Cameron — follow-up to Liminality I: the kitsch part, dealing with the strange business of liminality, submarines, monks and more ] . Limen is the Latin for threshold, and the liminal is therefore what happens at thresholds. ** Something pretty...

The best war game is a library of windows

[ by Charles Cameron — Escher, Borges, simulating the future, wargames, A Pattern Language, Sembl ] . MC Escher, Relativity. Ridiculous phrase, a library of windows. Unless you think, as I do, of books as windows onto different worlds, in which case it makes a...