by Charles Cameron | Jul 19, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a stray thought, endlessly ricocheting — with a friendly wink to @khanserai ] . chessboard by Ji Lee. Back in 2006 the US National Strategy for Combating Terrorism suggested: In the long run, winning the War on Terror means winning...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 3, 2012 | Monitor
[ 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...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 3, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — Timbuctu, Bamiyan, iconoclasm, dissolution of the monasteries, conceptual mapping, ethics, aesthetics, Venice ] . credit: Alidade, see below . Zen called the Ansar al-Din “The Taliban of the Mahgreb” today, pointing to an...