Articles by Anthony Judge
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Now as the Ultimate Cognitive Strange Attractor
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Apr 2014
A Continuing Invitation “Down the Rabbit Hole”? Entering a “rabbit hole” has been understood as framing a period of chaos or confusion — appropriate to the current condition of global civilization and the challenge of individual response to it.
→ read full articleBeing neither Dead nor Alive
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
How do such questions relate to the ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, as embodied in the US Declaration of Independence? Does the sense of being alive relate to the experience of happiness or rather to some more profound and inexplicable engagement with life?
→ read full articleIndependence of Scotland from a Crimean Perspective
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Emerging Strategic Logic of the New Century Understood Otherwise? – The question is what might be learned from the Crimea situation of relevance to that of Scotland. Is a new mindset being used to frame such situations — one which merits a degree of attention? Is there a case for a more systemic perspective rather consideration of such crises in an ad hoc, fire-fighting mode?
→ read full articleImplication in Any Strategic Roundtable of Its 12 Knights
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Each Circulating Globally in Quest of Sustainability and Immortality – Use is frequently made of “roundtable” as a metaphor to suggest a configuration of a fruitful diversity of stakeholders and contrasting perspectives — vital to an integrative perspective.
→ read full articleEncycling Problematic Wickedness for Potential Humanity
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Imagining a Future Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential – With the possibilities now offered by technology and the web, the question is how to reframe for the future an “Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential”. What recent instances of “new thinking” can be cited as an inspiration to the world — capable of eliciting collective confidence in the future?
→ read full articleLife-Skill Learning from Animal Shareholders and Collaborators
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Cognitive Opportunity for Engaging Radically With a Complex World in Crisis – The ultimate “authorities” in thriving through systemic crises are however the millions of species in the biosphere — whether plants or animals. It is evident that these have explored and developed every variety of “trick” to adapt to the challenges to which they have been exposed.
→ read full articleMetascience Enabling Upgrades to the Scientific Process
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
In the light of the argument in the main paper, the question is how to extend “science” from its narrow focus to one which encompasses what is implied by the term, namely a particular approach to knowing — irrespective of the domain to which it may be applied. This therefore includes preoccupation with psychosocial intangibles whose very existence is so vigorously challenged by some forms of science.
→ read full articleChallenges More Difficult for Science Than Going to Mars…
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Most extraordinary is the recognition that humanity will need to leave Planet Earth in order to occupy the environments in which it can continue to replicate the complex patterns of problems that science has been unable to address on Earth. The purpose here is explore a checklist of priorities and related considerations which science chooses to neglect in favour of associating its image with what is far away and long ago as being vital to the human enterprise.
→ read full articleQuantum Wampum Essential to Navigating Ragnarok
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Thrival in Crisis through Embodying Turbulent Flow – Collapse of confidence: The recent global financial crisis, its current unresolved instabilities, and uncertainty regarding its future stability, all suggest the merit of continuing reflection on alternatives.
→ read full articleFlowering of Civilization — Deflowering of Culture
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
Flow as a Necessarily Complex Experiential Dynamic – Produced in memory of the cut flowers arranged to enhance the quality of the deliberations at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum focused on The Reshaping of the World: Consequences for Society, Politics and Business (Davos, 22-25 January 2014).
→ read full articleMetaphors to Die By
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
Correspondences between a Collapsing Civilization, Culture or Group, and a Dying Person – Produced on the occasion of the G8 Dementia Summit (London 2013) attended by world leaders after participating in commemoration of the death of Nelson Mandela.
→ read full articleImagining Attractive Global Governance
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2013
The argument is that this pattern might help to frame the “language” through which attractive global governance of any viability can be usefully envisaged — prior to articulating the content of any global governance proposal. The approach is partly inspired by the initiative of Johan Galtung with respect to Forms of Presentation in the context of the UNU project.
→ read full articleCivilization as a Global Configuration of Silences: Recognizing Silence of a Higher Order
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
The concern here is whether the matters on which there is collective silence can be understood as being configured “globally” in some way — such as to sustain civilization in an unsuspected manner. This approach contrasts with any assumption that civilization is primarily characterized by the pattern of what is openly and fruitfully said.
→ read full articleAffinity, Diaspora, Identity, Reunification, Return
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
The question explored here is whether there are other ways of imagining fruitful association with countries, lands and “places”, however distant or virtual — or possibly divided in some way. Of particular interest is the possibility that this might be recognized through refining the pattern of formalities by which such associations are currently defined and restricted.
→ read full articlePlaying the Great Game with Intelligence: Authority versus the People
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
Exposure to the disclosures and the fast footwork displayed by government in variously denying, lying, misleading, acknowledging — now ultimately reframed by “everyone does it” — has considerably sharpened public awareness of the nature of the game played by Authority with the People.
→ read full articleForthcoming Major Revolution in Global Dialogue
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
Challenging New World Order of Interactive Communication – There is every reason to foresee in the immediate future the possibility that dialogue with artificial intelligence, in a variety of forms, will become more engaging and interesting than that with other human beings.
→ read full articlePsychosocial Implication of Without Within
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
The possibility explored here is the degree to which much that is held to be “external” and “objective” can be fruitfully explored as a projection of an “internal”, “subjective” form of comprehension. The significance of the terms used with regard to this possibility is itself necessarily questionable, with the process of “defining” in effect calling for “refining” — “definition” for “refinition”.
→ read full articleSystematic Gerrymandering of Declared Threats and Legality of Response
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2013
Opportunistic Exceptionalism Underlying Promulgated Rules of Governance – The crisis of governance and its eroding credibility is highlighted by a confluence of several factors, all variously questionable.
→ read full articleEncountering Otherness as a Waveform
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
Human civilization has a serious “otherness problem” — as indicated by the media on a daily basis. The problem is evident in the relationships between the principles and the adherents of the Abrahamic religions in particular. It is also evident in the relations between science and alternative perspectives, one political ideology and another, or “development” and “environment”.
→ read full articleBeing a Waveform of Potential as an Experiential Choice
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The variety of disciplines and beliefs suggest a multiplicity of ways through which an individual may choose to be framed and identified — or have experience of life defined. With the explosion of variously available knowledge to which it is only minimally possible to attend, incomprehension and uncertainty become ever more significant experientially.
→ read full articleTruth Test on Syria: Religious Oath — Polygraph — Ouija Board?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Systemic Mapping of the Pattern of Affirmations and Denials – Making sense of complexity. An extraordinary feature of the current crisis regarding Syria is the number and variety of affirmations regarding responsibilities for whatever is deplored — chemical weapons, deaths, strategic implications, suspicions, and the like.
→ read full articleIndifference to the Suffering of Others
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
The indifference to the pain and suffering of others is a continuing theme of reflection and comment. The culture of comfort makes us live in soap bubbles which, however lovely, are insubstantial; they offer a fleeting and empty illusion which results in indifference to others…In this globalized world, we have fallen into globalized indifference. We have become used to the suffering of others: it doesn’t affect me; it doesn’t concern me; it’s none of my business.
→ read full articleSensing Epiterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Some astronomers continue to express interest in “extraterrestrials” and “life” elsewhere — and maintaining the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). There are no right answers to wrong questions. Assuming that “extraterrestrial life” might be located on other planets may be a consequence of the “wrong question”. It may not be a question of “where” such “life” is located but rather of “how” that “life” is expressed.
→ read full article“Big Brother” Crying “Wolf”?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
But them “wolves” are a-changin’ — them’s becomin’ “werewolves”! In commentary on CNN (4 August 2013), in response to questioning, Robert Baer, a former CIA case officer, indicated that “They’re coming after us”. The challenge for the world would appear to be how to evaluate the claims for the credibility of such warnings — given the source and the potential strategic agendas.
→ read full articleIs There Never Enough?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
Religious Doublespeak on Population and Poverty – The wording of the title is deliberately ambiguous, inviting various interpretations. Alternatives might have been: There is Never Enough, or Is There Ever Enough? The concern is with the nature of the doublespeak in which religions seemingly engage in order to disguise the life-endangering policies they promote.
→ read full articleReimagining Principles Enabling an Existential Ecostery
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
There are many elaborations of fundamental principles to which people are encouraged to subscribe as a key to appropriate behaviour and understanding — notably of world order. Examples include the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Ten Commandments of the Bible, or the elements of a Global Ethic. Human rights are now readily used as a decorative fig leaf to disguise agendas thereby hidden.
→ read full articleWould Jesus Now Be Prosecuted by US?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2013
As a Law-Breaker — Like Manning, Assange and Snowden — Yes We Can! The pattern follows proceedings by the House Un-American Activities Committee — McCarthyism –, the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without evidence… It is noteworthy that presidents of countries originally named as “terrorists” were subsequently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize: Nelson Mandela and Yasser Arafat. Barack Obama is unique in being labelled “terrorist” subsequent to being awarded that distinction.
→ read full articleWorld Futures Conference as Catastrophic Question
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
How to engage with the conference of an organization held in the same academic facility as on the occasion of its foundation 50 years previously — in this case that of the World Futures Studies Federation in Bucharest (2013)? The question has a particular poignancy for a writer involved in the processes of its original creation — meeting the remaining handful of those from that time.
→ read full articleCircumventing Invasive Internet Surveillance with Carrier Pigeons
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
Extensive use has been made in the past of carrier pigeons for secure communications, notably in arenas of threat, and most notably in World War I, continuing into World War II, but to a lesser degree. The founder of the news agency Reuters made use of carrier pigeons for the delivery of vital financial data in parallel with introduction of the telegraph. Other little-known examples are cited in what follows.
→ read full articleWorld Introversion through Paracycling
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2013
Global Potential for Living Sustainably “Outside-Inside” – Produced on the occasion of the G8 Summit [2013] in Eniskillen (Ireland). The question meriting reflection is whether the courageous protests against the mindset of those who claim capacity to govern society could be set aside to enable exploration of other modalities.
→ read full articleVigorous Application of Derivative Thinking to Derivative Problems
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
Transcending Bewailing, Hand-Wringing and Emotional Blackmail – As many remark, the global situation is in a mess — whether in terms of environment, resources, social services, finances, employment, housing, or conflicts. Of greater concern, however, is the extent to which the response to this mess is itself in a mess.
→ read full articleLaw and Order vs. Lore and Orders
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
Imagining Otherwise the Forceful Engagement of Singularity with Plurality – Produced in a period when the forces of the international community are complicit in bloody fantasies in Syria.
→ read full articlePotential of Feynman Diagrams for Challenging Psychosocial Relationships?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2013
The complexity and subtlety of the arguments and models offered by fundamental physics are widely recognized as one means of comprehending reality. To most they are essentially incomprehensible, if not irrelevant to the experience of daily life. It is of course the case that another form of complexity is evident in psychosocial systems, whether at the macro-level of global modeling or at the micro-level of interpersonal relationships.
→ read full articleRisk-enhancing Cognitive Implications of the Basic Mathematical Operations
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2013
ADD, MULTIPLY, DIVIDE and SUBTRACT – This exploration uses the set of basic mathematical operations as a means of providing a mnemonic framework to highlight weaknesses in comprehension tending to accelerate processes of global civilizational collapse, as variously foreseen (Thomas Homer-Dixon, The Upside of Down: catastrophe, creativity, and the renewal of civilization, 2006; Jared M. Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, 2005; Johan Rockstrom and Anders Wijkman, Bankrupting Nature: Denying our Planetary Boundaries, 2012).
→ read full articleEliciting a Universe of Meaning Within a Global Information Society of Fragmenting Knowledge and Relationships
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
What is valued as meaningful in states, such as those configured within the the United States or the United Nations? How is meaning experienced in the case of other “states” as presented in a state of health? A civil or social status? The state of the environment? With respect to what universe is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to be considered meaningful?
→ read full articleStrategic Implications of 12 Unasked Questions in Response to Disaster
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Produced on the occasion of publication of an analysis of What Went Wrong in Afghanistan (Foreign Policy, March/April 2013) and of investigation of the Boston Marathon bombings (April 2013) – Checklist of questions:
→ read full articleDynamic Transformation of Static Reporting of Global Processes
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
Suggestions for Process-Oriented Titles of Global Issue Reports – The main paper discusses the manner in which meaning is widely associated with “states”. This is evident in political efforts to create unions of states, exemplified by the United States, the League of Arab States, or the Commonwealth of Independent States, as well as by the many proposals at the regional level (United States of Europe, United States of Africa, United States of Latin America, United States of Latin Africa.
→ read full articleBeing Neither a-Waving Nor a-Parting: Considering Both Science And Spirituality
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2013
Produced on the occasion of publication by Science of an inspiring map of the Universe shortly after the Big Bang. Rather than engage in arid exploration of levels of complexity — ironically only comprehensible to the “enlightened” — the question here is whether there is a far more immediate understanding of how the distinction between wave and particle is to be experienced personally. Does such experience offer more radical and richer understandings of the sense of individual identity than is offered by convention?
→ read full articleNos Morituri Te Salutamus – Salute of Iraqi Citizens to the Coalition of the Willing
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
10 March 2003 – We, the Citizens of Iraq, are gathered here for your entertainment in the first 21st century media circus, to celebrate once again the tradition inaugurated by your forefathers during the time of the Roman Empire — an empire that your current Leader aspires to emulate. We who are about to die salute you was the phrase traditionally used by those about to die in the gladiatorial circus arenas of that time. Nos Morituri Te Salutamus!
→ read full articlePsychosocial Implication in Gamma Animation: Epimemetics for a Brave New World
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
The much cited novel by Aldous Huxley (Brave New World, 1931) is recognized as having anticipated many more recent problematic developments in society and its technologies. As social satire, the novel envisages a world in which the population of Gammas, and the lower castes, is deliberately accelerated by genetic engineering — consistent with continuing approaches to unconstrained population increase.
→ read full articleCyborgs, Legaborgs, Finaborgs, Mediborgs
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
This is an exploration of how the human being has already been effectively transformed into a cyborg through immediate dependence on technology in daily life — with the technology becoming an extension of that identity. As argued here, similar transformations of identity are associated with human dependence on legislation, finance and medicine — through which identity is effectively defined.
→ read full articleWholth as Sustaining Dynamic of Health and Wealth
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2013
The concern here, in a time of increasing chaos, is the possibility that whatever is implied by the elusive sense of “togetherness” and “getting one’s act together”, these call for “new thinking” — and the recognition of the value of deprecated “old thinking”. It is increasingly clear that authoritative coherence is not to be expected, and when it is offered it tends to be part of the problem.
→ read full articleMarrying an Other Whatever the Form
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2013
Reframing and Extending the Understanding of Marriage – The understanding of relationships with an “other” is central to highly controversial debate at this time. The debate focuses in particular on “same-sex marriage”. This is considered especially questionable by various religions, most explicitly those of Abrahamic tradition and most especially by the Catholic Church.
→ read full articleInternyet Nescience?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Self-Referential Upgrading of Obsolete Internet Conference Processes Inhibiting Emergence of Integrative Knowledge – Paper originally envisaged for the 1st International Conference on Internet Science (10-13 April 2013, Brussels) held under the aegis of the European Commission, by the EINS project, the FP7 European Network of Excellence in Internet Science.
→ read full articleUniversity of Ignorance
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
The possibility of a University of Ignorance merits consideration as a process with which people could engage to unlearn. This would naturally contrast with the worldwide preoccupation with the culmination of intellectual effort in the education and research undertaken so exclusively at conventional universities — framed unquestionably as the advancement of knowledge. Whatever their much acclaimed merits, these tend to obscure the recognition of the potential significance of what is not known, most notably in relation to any transcendent “wisdom” which features so questionably in university preoccupations, if at all.
→ read full articleBurnies versus Greenies ?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
The variant “Greenies” is notably employed as a term of deprecation that carries implications of innocence and ignorance to frame the Greens as misinformed and misguided. The question here is facilitating the promotion of Green policies through identifying such a term in relation with such attitudes. The term of deprecation proposed here is “Burnies” — as a variation of “Burn”, analogous to the deprecatory use of “Greenies”. This gives a focus to what Burnies stand for — effectively naming the problem, from the Green perspective.
→ read full articleGoing Nowhere through Not-knowing Where to Go
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
Whether for the individual, for factional interests, or for global governance, it is becoming increasingly clear that many experience a sense of “going nowhere”. Part of the issue lies in not knowing “where to go” in quest of whatever might have been imagined as desirable. The issue has been highlighted with respect to the young — as challenged by unemployment in an increasingly complex society — and with the long-term unemployed. It is also implicit in the situation of the terminally ill and the elderly, especially those confined to hospice care.
→ read full articleFlatulence Is a Problem Aired
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2013
The third edition of the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential (1990) was reviewed for The Guardian by John Vidal under the title Flatulence is a Problem Aired (The Guardian, 7 February 1992). The review was introduced by the phrase: John Vidal finds the authors of a definitive guide to all the world’s ills treading an ever thinner line between the sublime and ridiculous. At that time the review could be seen as a highly skillful journalistic exercise in what has since been recognized as characteristic of negative campaigning.
→ read full articleMulti-phase Weaponisation of Replica Guns for Children
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
It is simply not plausible to understand events in Connecticut this Friday [14 Dec 2012] without having a conversation about guns in a country where more than 84 people a day are killed with guns, and more than twice that number are injured with them…. Americans are no more prone to mental illness or violence than any other people in the world. What they do have is more guns: roughly, 90 for every 100 people.
→ read full articleImaginative Reconfiguration of a post-Apocalyptic Global Civilization
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2012
Engaging Cognitively With the Illusion of the “End of the World”
→ read full articleBeware of Legality, Accountability, Marketability, Security!
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
The current period highlights concerns with end times scenarios, whether in the form of eschatological predictions, planetary disaster or civilizational. A particular focus is offered by predictions relating to December 2012 and the completion of the Mayan/Aztec long count cycle. As noted by Ed Vulliamy (Mayan ‘death and rebirth’ date marks the perfect time to tackle planet’s crisis, The Observer, 16 December 2012)
→ read full articleEnactivating Multiversal Community: Hearing a Pattern of Voices in the Global Wilderness
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
Poetry may be understood as discourse — even dialogue — in its own right. It is readily inferred that the writing of poetry is a mode of discourse and interaction with others — notably other poets. This clearly avoids any face-to-face interaction in the moment, as is suggested by the possibility which is the focus here. It is appropriate to note that the preparation and publication of scientific papers may also be considered as a mode of “discourse”, most notably within the scientific community. Scientific “debate” may well be associated with a succession of rounds of mutually critical paper publication — possibly over years.
→ read full articleKnowledge Processes Neglected by Science
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Insights from the Crisis of Science and Belief – Systemic knowledge processes neglected by science: What are the dimensions of knowledge and information of which science is itself uncritical or unconscious?
→ read full articleWhere There Is No Time and Nothing Matters
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2012
Cognitive Challenges at the Edge of the World – This commentary was further informed by the publication of a new study by James Boyce (Van Diemen’s Land, 2008) and the historic apology on 13th February 2008 by the Government of Australia to the Aboriginal peoples of Australia.
→ read full articleBeing a Poem in the Making
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2012
Produced in the light of the joint meeting of the Scientific and Medical Network and the
Society for Scientific Exploration on Mapping Time, Mind and Space (Brú na Bóinne, Ireland, 2012). Engendering a Multiverse through Musing – This is a reflection on engagement with the quantity of information, the challenge of quality and selectivity, and the consequences of ignorance and confusion as time goes by.
Eightfold Configuration of Nested Cycles of Cognitive Transformations
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
Meta-Pattern of Connectivity through a Hypersphere? – In a preceding exercise the focus was on identifying the nature and range of cognitive transformations, of which people are commonly aware, in quest of an approach to configuring them together in a meaningful pattern (In Quest of a Dynamic Pattern of Transformations: sensing the strange attractor of an emerging Rosetta Stone, 2012). The following exploration is an effort to weave together these different “threads” using the periodic table as a valuable template.
→ read full articleConsiderable Conglomeration of “Cons” of Global Concern
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
Eightfold Constraint on Constructive Conflict Control? In these strange times there would seem to be a strange preponderance of ways in which problematic conditions are articulated through use of words prefixed by “con”. There is therefore a case for exploring these phenomena more systematically. This is done here by clustering words of that form which are used with greatest frequency. The approach is to endeavour to isolate clusters which are especially important to processes of governance — or to concerns regarding the efficacy of that governance.
→ read full articleIn Quest of a Dynamic Pattern of Transformations
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
The assumption is that greater understanding of transformation in generic terms, as a complex of processes, would enable and sustain new forms of development — especially for the individual in times of crisis. The approach takes its inspiration from the argument of Albert Einstein: “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”
→ read full articleTransforming the Art of Conversation
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Conversing As the Transformative Science of Development – In a period of multiple global crises — with more foreseen — it is worth asking what skills might be usefully cultivated. It is increasingly evident that every form of claim and blame can be formulated.
→ read full articleTransforming and Interweaving the Ways of Being Stoned
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
“Stone” is used metaphorically and otherwise in a quite disparate range of contexts. Use of “stoned” as a provocative mnemonic device is then arguably appropriate through the distraction it offers, whether through use of drugs by individuals, or collective dependence on oil as a drug. The exorbitant expenditure on the occasion of global summits is also suggestive of the “stoned” conditions under which it is deemed appropriate for decision-makers to envision the future.
→ read full articleParadoxes of Engaging with the Ultimate in any Guise
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2012
Living Life Penultimately – There is a curious dependence on the “ultimate” in a variety of forms. This may be related to anticipation of an ultimate experience, whether in the form of a theory, a spiritual revelation, an encounter with another, a global strategy, or the like. The expectation is that this will be “ultimately” transformative in ways which can only be intuited, but whose consequences are much anticipated.
→ read full article12 Mindsets Ensuring Disappearance of Employment Opportunities
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2012
Towards a Systemic Reframing of the Job Culture – Produced in a period when the proportion of jobless in the Eurozone has reached a record level.
→ read full articleConvergence of 30 Disabling Global Trends
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
In a period characterized by a global crisis of crises, there is a case for exploring any means of articulating the set of those crises and the possibilities for their comprehension as a system. Of particular concern is the tendency to consider that there is far too much “bad news” and that the quest should be to set it aside as much as possible and focus on the “good news” offering hope for the future.
→ read full articleArming Civil Society Worldwide
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
This exploration is concerned with the conditions required for comprehension and uptake of American-style democracy worldwide as a basis for the viability of the emergent American empire. The focus is on a unique feature of the American Constitution which ensures that citizens have the right to bear arms. [Plus: Addendum on last week’s mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado-USA (July 2012)]
→ read full articleImplication of Indwelling Intelligence in Global Confidence-building
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
Sustaining the Construction and Dynamic of Psychosocial Reality through Questioning – This is a reflection on the meaning that could be associated with “indwelling” and more specifically with “indwelling intelligence” — and what might then be its “global” implications. A primary concern is the increasingly apparent disconnect between words — often characterized as “empty” — and commitments in a political context from which viable global strategies are expected to emerge.
→ read full articleMiddle East Peace Potential through Dynamics in Spherical Geometry
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
This is an exploration of the hypothesis that unique belief systems depend for their coherence on distinctive patterns typically embodied in geometrical symbols in two dimensions. On the basis of that assumption, the case tentatively explored here is that of the “incommensurability” of the 5-fold Star of Islam and the 6-fold Star of David of Judaism — both symbols appearing on flags of the nations having those distinct faiths.
→ read full articleExploring the Hidden Mysteries of Oxfam’s Doughnut
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2012
Produced on the occasion of the Rio+20 Earth Summit (Rio de Janeiro, 2012). Oxfam has released a discussion paper. The paper presents a single visual framework – shaped like a doughnut – that represents a space within which humanity can thrive. This doughnut-like area is defined by combining the much-debated set of 9 “planetary boundaries” with a new set of 11 social boundaries, based on the 11 dimensions of human deprivation that emerged from the issues raised by governments in their Rio+20 submissions.
→ read full articleUnthought as Cognitive Foundation of Global Civilization
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
Implications of God, Debt, Overpopulation, Waste, Negligence, Encroachment and Death? This is an exploration of the possible nature of an immense cognitive “hole” — far “beneath” the conventional thought processes characterizing society, relationships and communication. The approach is partly inspired by the work of John Ralston Saul (The Unconscious Civilization, 1995), partly that of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (The Phenomenology of Perception, 1945), and partly that of Carl Jung on the collective unconscious.
→ read full articleSwastika as Dynamic Pattern Underlying Psychosocial Power Processes
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
This speculative exploration is not about the problematic (neo) Nazi use of the Swastika, nor is it about the use of the Swastika as a traditional symbol much valued in many cultures of the world. However it does suggest further insights into why the Swastika has been recognized in such contexts and why those contrasting uses merit further reflection.
→ read full articleEngendering 2052 through Re-imagining the Present
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
Review of 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years As Presented To the Club of Rome
→ read full articleScientific Gerrymandering of Boundaries of Overpopulation Debate
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
Review of the Royal Society Report – The Royal Society has published the results of a study, by a very distinguished group, on the population challenge of humanity (People and the Planet, 2012). The approach is introduced as follows:
→ read full articleTranscending Simplistic Binary Contractual Relationships
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2012
What Is Hindering Their Exploration? – There are numerous examples of territorial and boundary disputes around the globe. These are readily described in the simplest binary form — “that land belongs to us” and “not true, it belongs to us” (Us and Them: Relating to Challenging Others, 2009). The debates on these matters may last for years, typically highlighted by sporadic bouts of violence and threats of violence.
→ read full article10 Demands for Concrete Proof by We the Peoples of the World
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2012
Produced in a period when the USA is demanding concrete evidence from Iran that it is halting efforts to produce nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleEnabling Wisdom Dynamically within Intertwined Tori
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2012
Requisite Resonance in Global Knowledge Architecture – The theme emerged from consideration of how wisdom could be rendered into more compact form for dissemination on Twitter, constrained by the 140 character limitation on any tweet message. The example explored was the set of 48 Zen koan assembled in a classic collection compiled in 1228 by the Chinese Zen master Wumen Hui-k’ai.
→ read full articleTweeter, Tweeter, Little Star: How I Wonder What You Are
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2012
Produced in a period when use of Twitter has become ever more significant in political processes and democratic protest.
→ read full articleLiving with Incomprehension and Uncertainty: Re-Cognizing the Varieties of Non-Comprehension and Misunderstanding
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2012
Produced In a Period When Sustained Incomprehension May Well Enable World War III – This follows from explorations of the experience of nothingness and pointlessness in daily life — especially as a consequence of the current pattern of global strategies (Configuring the Varieties of Experiential Nothingness, 2012; Way Round Cognitive Ground Zero and Pointlessness? 2012). The experience may well be intimately related to a sense of incomprehension at the paradoxes and absurdities of life, irrespective of how well-informed an individual may be.
→ read full articleTowards the Dynamic Art of Partial Comprehension
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Mar 2012
Annex B of ‘Living with Incomprehension and Uncertainty’ (2012) – Shared binary commitment: Curiously, and as illustrated by Catholic commentary on the Galileo Affair (above), science and religion share a profound commitment to binary logic. This takes the form of truth/falsehood, right/wrong, correct/incorrect, believer/nonbeliever, etc — as variously interpreted. Shades of gray are condemned. This commitment is evident in the military operations they variously reinforce — in the distinction between friend/enemy, or victory/defeat, and the very nature of launching missiles against targets. As profit/loss, the latter pattern permeates commercial marketing and foreign policy, as previously discussed (Us and Them: Relating to Challenging Others, 2009; Enhancing Sustainable Development Strategies through Avoidance of Military Metaphors, 1998; ).
→ read full article10 Unanswered Questions on Iran and Israel
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2012
Produced in the light of the Press Conference of President Barack Obama (6 March 2012)
and a crisis meeting of the IAEA (Vienna, 7 March 2012) seeking consensus on action against Iran. Why is the case against Iran’s capacity to produce nuclear weapons of mass destruction always presented without systematic comparison with the track record relating to Israel’s capacity to produce weapons of mass destruction?
Metaphorical Insights from the Patterns of Academic Disciplines
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2012
This document explores use of a particular metaphor from physics as a means of articulating understandings of openness and closedness in support of individual or collective identity. It follows from consideration of pattern language in a more general argument (Way Round Cognitive Ground Zero and Pointlessness: embodying the geometry of fundamental cognitive dynamics, 2012) of which it is is Annex D.
→ read full articleExperience of Cognitive Implication in Fundamental Geometry
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2012
The question raised here is why particular geometrical forms are widely “felt” to be cognitively appropriate in the articulation of certain patterns of psychosocial action. Why are these simple forms borrowed metaphorically in this way and, since this is the case, why is similar use not made of more complex geometrical forms — potentially in more appropriate response to the complexities of psychosocial challenges?
→ read full articleConfiguring the Varieties of Experiential Nothingness
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2012
The despair is necessarily both planet-wide and highly personal (Implication of Personal Despair in Planetary Despair, 2010). The condition can be described as a form of cognitive “ground zero” — a sense of pointlessness notably articulated through recognition that the future offers “nothing”, especially for those reduced to “nothing” by a combination of factors, as separately discussed (Reintegration of a Remaindered World, 2011; Way Round Cognitive Ground Zero and Pointlessness, 2012).
→ read full articleGlobal Brane Comprehension Enabling a Higher Dimensional Big Tent?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2012
The focus here calls into question personal experiential relationship to a vast “external” framework of knowledge — elaborated and promoted as a “universal” framework. This framework, to the extent possible, is anchored in a fabricated complex language of formal logic within which certain concepts and insights are held to be demonstrably true. This language effectively marginalizes the experience of those who understand it only partially or not at all. It is imposed upon them as a requirement for effective engagement with reality, with the implication that people should “get with it” or be socially irrelevant. This denies the integrative value for the individual of radical experiential coherence in the moment — frequently highlighted by personal hardship, tragedy and nostalgia over time.
→ read full articleReintegration of a Remaindered World: Cognitive Recycling of Objects of Systemic Neglect
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2011
Prepared as an aid to reflection on a world of “remaindered people” currently of concern to the “Indignant” and to the Occupy movement.
→ read full articleSocial Remainders from Psychosocial Remaindering
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2011
Review of Current Usage and Implications – Prepared as an aid to reflection on the world of “remaindered people” currently of concern to the Occupy movement.
→ read full articleMapping Paralysis and Tokenism in the Face of Potential Global Disaster
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2011
Why Nobody Is About To Do Anything Effective and What One Might Do About It – A Special Report of a current issue of The Economist has been entitled Staring into the Abyss: Europe and its currency (12 November 2011). The introductory leader argues: When the world’s third-largest bond market begins to buckle, catastrophe looms. At stake is not just the Italian economy but Spain, Portugal, Ireland, the euro, the European Union’s single market, the global banking system, the world economy, and pretty much anything else you can think of.
→ read full articleIn Quest of Sustainability as Holy Grail of Global Governance
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2011
Produced on the Occasion of the G-20 Summit (Cannes, October 2011) – The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, has indicated: In these difficult times, the biggest challenge facing governments is not a deficit of resources; it is a deficit of trust. People are losing faith in leaders and public institutions to do the right thing. The forthcoming G-20 meeting in Cannes takes place against this dramatic backdrop. (The Clock Is Ticking, International Herald Tribune, 31 October 2011)
→ read full articleMap of Systemic Interdependencies None Dares Name
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2011
12-Fold Challenge of Global Life and Death – Produced on the occasion of the world population having reached 7 billion and of publication of the The State of World Population 2011 by the United Nations Population Fund — coincidental with a historic summit on the European sovereign debt crisis to “save Greece”, “save Europe” and “save the world economy.”
→ read full articleEngendering a Psychopter through Biomimicry and Technomimicry
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2011
The possibility explored here follows from the questions raised at the time of writing by the unprecedented street protests in Wall Street, subsequent to the widespread revolutionary protests of the so-called Arab Spring (Sarah Jaffe, This Is Only Getting Bigger: 20,000 Rally in New York to Support Occupy Wall Street, AlterNet, 5 October 2011).
→ read full articleSystemic Biomimicry of Dinosaurs by Multinational Corporations
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2011
Clearing the Ground for Future Psychosocial Evolution – Comparisons have long been made between the pattern of behaviour of multinational corporations and that of dinosaurs. At the time of writing some 440,000 such references were indicated by Google. Typically the comparison is merely for rhetorical purposes, avoiding the possibility that more might be derived from this widespread “pattern recognition”.
→ read full articleInternational Institute of Advanced Studies in Mathematical Theology
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2011
The strategic importance of faith-based governance is evident from the conflicts sustained by it as well as by its continuing significance in the politics of dominant superpowers. Despite the claims of science and atheists, adherence to extraordinary world views is increasing, as documented by editors of The Economist, John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge (God Is Back: how the global revival of faith is changing the world, 2009).
→ read full articleStrategic Complexity ∞ Attracting Consensus
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2011
Klein Is Beautiful ∞ Sustaining Identity in Time – Recent events continue to demonstrate that the probability of achieving global agreement on conflict-inducing issues and emergencies is low — within the frameworks and worldviews currently considered appropriate in negotiations to that end. Temporary compromises are primarily conducive to subsequent dysfunctional game-playing and collapse of any consensus.
→ read full articleEn-joying the World through En-joying Oneself
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2011
Eliciting the Potential of Globalization through Cognitive Radicalization. This is an exploration of the possibility of radical existential coherence in engaging with the otherness of the wider world. It endeavours to distinguish cognitive radicalization from its current primary association with political radicalization — and especially through its violent expressions in religious fundamentalism.
→ read full articleTomorrow, Who Will Govern the World?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2011
The author of Demain, qui gouvernera le monde? (2011), Jacques Attali, has every reason to be considered an authority on the subject of his new book. Aside from having held many positions in relation to national and international governance, as an academic he has been an extremely prolific author on a wide range of relevant subjects, including A Brief History of the Future (2006), La crise, et après? (2008) and Survivre aux crises: 7 stratégies (2009).
→ read full articleImplication of Toroidal Transformation of the Crown of Thorns
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2011
Design Challenge to Enable Integrative Comprehension of Global Dynamics – This is an exercise in identifying a set of threads which might be fruitfully woven together into an unusual pattern of significance of relevance to both the challenge of governance and of individuation.
→ read full articleGruesome but Necessary: Global Governance in the 21st Century?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2011
Extreme Normality as Indicator of Systemic Negligence – How are people to think of the massacre of less than a hundred Norwegians — in a global society characterized by daily reporting of instances of tragic deaths of every kind and number? What might who do about it and why?
→ read full articleMonkeying with Global Governance
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2011
Emergent Dynamics of Three Wise Monkeys in a Knowledge-Based Society – Worldwide broadcasts on 19 July 2011 provided an unprecedented four hours of coverage of a meeting of the Select Committee for Culture, Media and Sport of the UK Parliament — interviewing those primarily responsible for the governance of the world’s major news organization. Through a subsidiary, this was recently implicated in a phone-hacking scandal of major proportions.
→ read full article¿Higher Education ∞ Meta-education?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2011
Transforming Cognitive Enabling Processes Increasingly Unfit For Purpose – The current period is witness to severe inadequacies in response to humanitarian crisis (10 million threatened with starvation in Africa) and in governance of the global financial system (imminent risk of dollar and eurozone defaults). It is curiously significant that the potential dollar default is associated with the most powerful nation, recognized for the merit of its higher education system, whereas the most probable eurozone default is that of a far weaker nation from which understandings of higher education first originated.
→ read full articleHumanitarian Disaster or Act of God — Dangerous Implication in Practice?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2011
Responding Systemically To the Probable Fate of Millions – Given the fundamental importance in practice of religious belief and obedience to divine injunctions, to what extent is disaster to be understood as an Act of God, or rather as a disastrous failure of human civilization — thereby enabled and heralding its final collapse (cf Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive, 2005)
→ read full articleUngovernability of Sustainable Global Democracy?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2011
Towards Engaging Appropriately With Time – Prepared on the occasion of political upheaval in Arab countries, potential destabilization of Europe through default on public debt in Greece and other eurozone countries, problematic military outcomes in Afghanistan and Libya, and failed response to climate change challenges.
→ read full articleMind Map of Global Civilizational Collapse: Why Nothing is Happening in Response to Global Challenges
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
Produced on the occasion of the release of a map of a massive cosmic galactic collision 11 million light years from Earth — and massive uprisings in the Mediterranean region on Earth, endangering the European and global economies.
→ read full article