by Charles Cameron | Jul 29, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — hint: peace comes at a far higher cost ] . No longer do you need to sit long hours in meditation or travel to Syria and borrow a gun to show your appreciation for peace or jihad. You can now buy a t-shirt for the cool Caliphate [upper...
by Charles Cameron | May 10, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — how, where and why the name, the map, and the flag merge into reality — Gregory Bateson to the rescue ] . I am indebted for this screengrab to Phillip Smyth, whose recent Singing Hizballah’s Tune in Manama: Why Are Bahrain’s...
by Charles Cameron | Apr 16, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — always on the watch for the symbolic ] . First, let’s admit that the cattle-rancher archetype has immense popular appeal. Here’s the header from the Bundy Ranch website: That’s pretty hard to beat, no? ** As ever,...
by Charles Cameron | Apr 15, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — in mental preparation for tonight’s lunar eclipse, together with some quick eschatology, plenty of blood, and an Incan jaguar ] . The upper panel, above, shows a detail of Hieronymus Bosch‘s Ghent representation of Christ...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 22, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a brief note on my own bi-focal vision, with appreciation to Marina Warner ] . ** I was just reading Marina Warner‘s recent essay On Magic — and protective magic in particular — and was struck by the phrase: Calligraphic...
