Center for Strategic Communication

Hipbone’s Games, Emlyn’s critique

[ by Charles and Emlyn Cameron — my thousandth ZP post, and his first — in which my son schools me in making my games more responsive to the requirements of decision-support ] . Alexander Calder, "Yellow Sail", 1950, Weatherspoon Art Museum,...

You say Ezekiel and I say Ezequiel

[ by Charles Cameron — Keith Oatley’s theatre as simulation that runs on minds applied v briefly to two Ezekiel narratives ] . Here’s the transcript of a conversation in a car between FBI Agents Shane Daughtry and Eve Rearden, from the 2011 movie...

Serpent logics: the marathon

[ by Charles Cameron — oh, the sheer delightful drudgery of finding patterns everywhere ] . I’ll start this post, as I did the previous one to which this is a sort of appendix, with a (deeply strange, tell me about it) example of the… Matrioshka...

Sunday surprise 5: once in a blues moon

[ by Charles Cameron — time for some more surprises, this time in stone and jazz — plus an afterimage of WWI ] . First, a master-class in the craft of the blues: Second, the moon: And third, because of the violence in Kenya, Pakistan, Syria … get me...