by Charles Cameron | Apr 23, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — juxtaposition offers us a potent way to connect “equal but opposite” dots ] . Jimmy Chen at HTMLGiant captures the griefs and joyful reliefs of war by juxtaposing two war photos that had separately become iconic — and...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 25, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — if we omit all mention of the Qur’an, will the jihad perhaps disappear, you think? ] . On Friday, Oct. 29, 2004, just before the 2004 US Presidential Election, a videotaped speech by Osama bin Laden was released online and variously...
by Charles Cameron | Oct 25, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a meditation on theological espionage, literary strategy, a Sufi tale from Jalaluddin Rumi, and why the arts and humanities offer excellent preparation for analytic work ] . Kit Marlowe's portrait, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,...
by Charles Cameron | Oct 22, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — about the (not yet titled) book (or post-book project) i seem to be writing, which offers a grand slam intro to an array of box-free contemplative and artistic approaches to creative thinking, and hence opens fresh angles on intelligence ]...
by Charles Cameron | Oct 18, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — on play, games, vertigo and koan — technically this is a ludibrium, a jeu, a jest — a dervish whirl for the mind ] . . I’m joining the conversation Jane McGonigal is leading over on Big Questions Online — our topic...
