by Charles Cameron | Apr 10, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — what carves memory? blood is spilled, song carries grief and anger across centuries ] , One hundred years ago, Irish blood was spilled in the Easter Uprising of 1916, as Sinéad O’Connor & The Chieftains call us to remember in...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 12, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — large numbers don’t fit well into small skulls, but we do what we can ] . Charles Lister tweeted today: The numbers are, for my humble self, staggering. And you can’t lose $1.5 billion if you didn’t have $1.5 billion at...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 14, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — where paradox begets form in phrasing, redux ] . Here for your entertainment and entrainment are some further instances where the tweet doubles back on itself, bites its tail, or otherwise embodies some form of “form”...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 4, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — the four goats go with the woman, the cow called Bessie belongs with Hiyakawa’s Ladder of Abstraction ] . ** My friend the anthropologist Peter van der Werff recently wrote this paragraph about a woman he met in India: The very poor...
by Charles Cameron | Nov 21, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — comparing two species of precision and imprecision found in time of war, one which the camera can record, one which the heart must wait to learn — let us pray the cease-fire holds ] . The key phrases here are “the mosque...