Articles by Anthony Judge
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Mind 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 articleReframing the Dynamics of Engaging with Otherness
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2011
Triadic Correspondences between Topology, Kama Sutra and I Ching – Produced on the occasion of the open solicitation for proposals for the The Metaphor Program of the US Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity with participation of the US Army Research Laboratory. The challenge of engaging with “others” and their “otherness” is fundamental to the difficulties of governance at every level of society — from the global to the individual.
→ read full articleThe Consensus Delusion: Mysterious Attractor Undermining Global Civilization As Currently Imagined
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2011
The so-called global civilization is a quarrelsome environment. Appeals for consensus are typically pathetic exercises in tokenism in their effective influence on the reality of psychosocial dynamics. Vast resources are nevertheless allocated on the assumption that consensus will be achieved. Is it possible that the quest for consensus, as currently imagined, will be considered pathological by the future? An approach to the challenge has been helpfully made in the highly controversial study by Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion, 2006), from which the above title is adapted as a “methodological device”.
→ read full articlePre-Judging an Institution’s Implicit Strategy by the Director’s Private Behaviour
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2011
Remarkable parallels in the case of the IMF and Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The question explored here is whether there are useful parallels to be recognized between the strategic policies pursued by the IMF over the years — both publicly and discretely — and those exemplified by the behaviour of its Managing Director, again both publicly and privately. Any such parallels would be especially noteworthy to the extent that they reflect the unchallenged attitudes of the powerful to those who are relatively vulnerable — and whose vulnerability is exacerbated in consequence. Fruitful questions include:
→ read full articleIconic Extrajudicial Execution of Jesus through Osama by US?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2011
Whither a cyclopean global Pax Americana lacking depth perception?
→ read full articleGuidelines in Response to Degrees of Anti-social Behaviour: Airline Passengers and Children as a Case Study
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2011
The argument has implications for those obliged to spend time in closed environments where they are exposed to various levels of disruptive behaviour, including bullying and harassment: prisons, military, schools, work environments, etc. Especially relevant is the disempowerment experienced by those exposed to such behaviour and the rights assumed by those engaging in it — and the complicity of those aware of such behaviour.
→ read full articleMassive Elicitation of Psychosocial Energy: Requisite Technology for Collective Enlightenment
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
Insights arising from the multiple disaster of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan (2011) and from the massive Arab uprisings in the same period. The following discussion is necessarily speculative in an attempt to explore alternative ways of thinking about the “crisis of crises” in all its cognitive complexity — about which there would appear to be a dearth of the much-sought creative “new thinking”.
→ read full articleInterplanetary Security Council resolution: No-fly zone on Earth – Resolution 1973
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2011
This is a translated text of a resolution of the Interplanetary Security Council, apparently leaked by WikiLeaks-Solar.
→ read full articleAnticipating Future Strategic Triple Whammies: In the Light of Earthquake-Tsunami-Nuclear Misconceptions
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
Beyond deploring the horrendous destruction and loss of life and livelihoods in Japan, the question is how to derive insight from the event. Of special relevance is the manner in which the event overwhelmed assiduous provisions in anticipation of any single crisis. The point was originally well made by John Platt:
→ read full articleUniversal Declaration of the Rights of Human Organization
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2011
An Experimental Extension of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
→ read full articleFreedom, Democracy, Justice: Isolated Nouns or Interwoven Verbs?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2011
There is a key interpretation of the initial process described in the Book of Genesis, honoured by the three Abrahamic religions — together so significant through their interaction in exacerbating the crises of the world. For the Christian religion, so influential in defining the “values” of the international community, that interpretation is: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1:1)
→ read full articlePrimary Global Reserve Currency: The Con?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
Confidence is essentially intangible and it is therefore somewhat extraordinary that it should be so fundamental to what might otherwise be considered the most tangible aspects of the material world — as evident in the world of business and finance, necessarily so economic with the truth. “Confidence” is supposedly not even a matter of consideration in any evaluation of the financial condition of a commercial enterprise or a national economy. This supposition is in fact quite incorrect as the financial crisis of 2008-9 has demonstrated through concern with assumption of risk and “credit ratings”.
→ read full articleDisastrous Floods as Indicators of Systemic Risk Neglect
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2011
Implications for Authoritative Response to Future Surprises. This is an exploration of the level of neglected risk visibly and dramatically highlighted by a number of recent highly publicized floods which have been framed as unforeseeable surprises. At the time of writing the prime example is in Australia on the occasion of the Queensland flood of 2010,which has been followed by flooding in Victoria.
→ read full articleLiving as an Imaginal Bridge between Worlds: Global implications of “betwixt and between” and liminality
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2011
This is an imaginal exploration of living between conventional sides, modes or choices — living on the bridge between them, or as that bridge. It conflates significance potentially associated with the Bridge of Sighs (Ponte Sospiro) and the Ponte Vecchio — both of them variously covered. Both are iconic “musts” for tourists travelling to Venice and Florence. Both have offered inspiration elsewhere and down the centuries. The Ponte Vecchio dates notably from the Renaissance period and its historical origins in Florence. The question here is whether they together point to a context through which to explore the possibilities of living “in between” the divisive choices by which society is currently faced — at a time when there are many calls for new thinking and reflections on a “new Renaissance”. A concern is whether the requisite cognitive nature of such collective emergent insight might well be “missed” in some way, as previously discussed (Missing the New Renaissance? 2010; From Changing the Strategic Game to Changing the Strategic Frame: missing cognitive possibility in changing the system not the planet, 2010).
→ read full articleFrom Changing the Strategic Game to Changing the Strategic Frame
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2010
This is a commentary on the argument of Mexican activist Gustavo Esteva following the United Nations Climate Change Conference, Mexico, 2010 (The Arrogance of Cancún, The Guardian, 16 December 2010; Spanish version). He concludes that the lesson of this feeble climate deal is that “governments have played God and failed. It is up to the activists now”. He cites the alternative Cancún Declaration by the International Forum for Climate Justice — The People’s Dialogue (Foro Internacional de la Justicia Climática — Diálogo de la Pueblos) with its slogan: Let’s change the system, not the planet. Specifically the text of the alternative declaration [original Spanish versions: Declaración de Cancún Foro Internacional de Justicia Climática; Declaración del Foro Alternativo por la Justicia Climática Cancún 2010; Foro Mundial de Alternativas: Declaración de Cancún; Declaración de Cancún – Foro Internacional de Justicia Climática] includes the phrase:
→ read full articleAlleged Breach of UN Treaty Obligations by US
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2010
Press Coverage and Commentary Following WikiLeaks Cable Dissemination: A classified directive which appears to blur the line between diplomacy and spying was issued to US diplomats under Hillary Clinton’s name in July 2009, demanding forensic technical details about the communications systems used by top UN officials, including passwords and personal encryption keys used in private and commercial networks for official communications. It called for detailed biometric information “on key UN officials, to include undersecretaries, heads of specialised agencies and their chief advisers, top SYG [secretary general] aides, heads of peace operations and political field missions, including force commanders” as well as intelligence on Ban’s “management and decision-making style and his influence on the secretariat”.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks and the First Global Condom War
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2010
This is an exploration of the curious mirroring between the role of Julian Assange, as the founder of WikiLeaks, and that of the US as the world’s currently acclaimed sole superpower. As is now typical of any global crisis, many are now focused on who to blame and whether they can be neutralized or eliminated — getting the justice they deserve — whilst others complicit in the process escape with impunity, honours and rewards as the exemplification of the universal values of humanity.
→ read full articleTranscending One-eyed Global Modelling Perspectives: Incorporating Under-Currents into Global Circulation of Value
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2010
The dissemination by WikiLeaks of classified communications of the US military and diplomatic services allows serious attention to be given to systemic phenomena which are typically dismissed as being “unconfirmed” allegations of marginal significance — at worst exceptional incidents. Whilst “everyone” has long acknowledged the extent of secrecy and corruption, this was typically minimized or denied in official communications, establishment media and education systems. More problematic is the degree to which such systemic phenomena have been denied or minimized in academic studies and modelling of the world system.
→ read full articleSuperquestions for Supercomputers
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2010
This is a reflection on the press release announcing that Supercomputers ramp up to tackle global societal problems (Science and Technology Facilities Council, 17 November 2010). The press release argues that supercomputers of the future, capable of rapidly crunching vast amounts of data way beyond the existing capabilities of current technology, will spearhead the development of new drugs, new sources of energy and environmental monitoring.
→ read full articleCultivating Global Strategic Fantasies of Choice
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2010
Learnings from Islamic Al-Qaida and the Republican Tea Party Movement: Subsequent to the success of the Republican Tea Party movement in the recent US mid-term elections, Gary Younge argued the case that the “Tea Party” does not in fact exist (The Tea Party is not new, or coherent. It’s merely old whine in new bottles, The Guardian, 7 November 2010). This elicited several hundred comments. This argument follows various observations regarding the questionable nature of the “existence” of Al-Qaida (Learning from “al-Qaida” as a source of terrorism, 2005).
→ read full articleMissing the New Renaissance? No Room at the In?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2010
Produced on the occasion of a conference of the Scientific and Medical Network to launch a compilation: A New Renaissance: transforming science, spirit and society (2010).
→ read full articleFrom Quantitative Easing (QE) to Moral Easing (ME)
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2010
A Stimulus Package to Avert Moral Bankruptcy? Commentary on the release via WikiLeaks of 400,000 documents regarding the reality on the ground in Iraq — as reported by troops in the field — has called into question the moral foundation of the intervention by the coalition forces in their various incarnations and manifestations in the Iraq-Afghanistan area (Multi-National Force – Iraq, Combined Joint Task Force 7 , NATO Training Mission – Iraq, Coalition of the Willing, International Security Assistance Force).
→ read full articleRe-Emergence of the Language of the Birds through Twitter?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2010
Harmonising the Configuration of Pattern-Breaking Interjections and Expletives. The following exploration is dedicated to Johan Galtung on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
He originally instigated the focus on Forms of Presentation through the Goals, Processes and Indicators of Development project (1978-82) of the United Nations University.
Nominated for the No Bull Peace Prize in 2010, he also plays the flute.
Engendering Invagination and Gastrulation of Globalization
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2010
Reconstructive Insights from the Sciences and the Humanities
→ read full articleNo Bull Prize Nominations
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2010
This is a contribution to efforts to put the No Bull Prize Award on an appropriate footing in global society.
No Bull Prize for Business
* Naomi Klein, for telling it as it is, and most notably for No Logo: no space, no choice, no jobs (2000), Fences and Windows: dispatches from the front lines of the globalization debate (2002), and The Shock Doctrine: the rise of disaster capitalism (2007)
No Bull Prize for Information
* WikiLeaks, for courageous release of documents otherwise withheld from the public
* Inter-Press Service
No Bull Prize for Journalism
* John Pilger, for telling it as it is
* Robert Fisk, for telling it as it is
No Bull Peace Prize
* Johan Galtung, for telling it as it is
* Nonviolent Peaceforce
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Enabling Governance through the Dynamics of Nature
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2010
Exemplified by Cognitive Implication of Vortices and Helicoidal Flow. This follows from the case previously made for exploring “toroidal governance” to compensate for the evident inadequacies of “global governance” (From global governance to toroidal governance, 2010). Of particular interest in that respect are the vortex dynamics by which toroidal forms are sustained, as commonly illustrated by the smoke ring. Vortex rings have been acknowledged by many investigators as one of the most fundamental and fascinating phenomena in fluid dynamics (Feliks Kaplanski, Dynamics of Vortex Rings, SciTopics, 12 July 2010).
→ read full articleSustaining a Community of Strange Loops
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2010
Comprehension and Engagement through Aesthetic Ring Transformation
→ read full articleWarp and Weft of Future Governance
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2010
Ninefold Interweaving of Incommensurable Threads of Discourse. The purpose here is merely to point to the possibility of combining the threefold weaving explored by Gidley with the quite different weaving explored by Douglas Hofstadter (Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, 1979). The implication this ninefold weaving responds to dimensions of the challenge of governance neglected by the two threefold weavings considered individually.
→ read full articleCirculation of the Light: Essential Metaphor of Global Sustainability?
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
Does civilizational collapse become probable when the resources of the cognitive geometry on which a civilization chooses to live are exhausted — as an extension of the argument of Jared Diamond (Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, 2005)?
→ read full articleStrategic Embodiment of Time: Configuring Questions Fundamental to Change
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2010
With respect to the global financial crisis, Sohail Inayatullah has presented a set of seven narratives derived by use of Causal Layered Analysis (Multiple Narratives of the Futures of the Global Financial Crisis, Journal of Futures Studies, 2010). The possibility explored here is that there are implicit questions associated with each of these foundational or generative narratives which could be considered in the light of the classical set of seven WH-questions (when, where, which, what, who, why, how).
→ read full articleEngaging with the Inexplicable, the Incomprehensible and the Unexpected
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2010
In celebration of the United Nations International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures and the International Year of Biodiversity.
→ read full articleEnacting Transformative Integral Thinking through Playful Elegance
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2010
A Symposium at the End of the Universe?
→ read full articleEngaging with the Future with Insights of the Past
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
In a world much characterized by denial in many forms, distinct cases may be made for exploring “undersides” or the “unconscious”, as variously argued (Elise Boulding, The Underside of History: a view of women through time, 1976; John Ralston Saul, The Unconscious Civilization, 1995), most notably by Carl Jung with respect to the collective unconscious and the individual “shadow”, as previously argued (Global Strategic Implications of the Unsaid: from myth-making towards a wisdom society, 2003). The case may be extended to various forms of “Omertà”, perhaps most recently and dramatically illustrated by the policies of the Catholic Church with respect to sexual abuse by clergy, widespread concern with the secrecy of tax havens, or the scientific neglect of a particular factor in consideration of climate change policy (Mapping the Global Underground: articulating Insightful Population Constraint Consideration, 2010; Sins of Hot Air Emission, Omission, Commission and Promission, 2009).
→ read full articleEnabling Collective Intelligence in Response to Emergencies
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2010
The response to the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (2010), acknowledged as the greatest recent environmental disaster, is used here to summarize and illustrate the challenge of enabling collective intelligence in response to emergencies. The focus is therefore less on the oil spill disaster and more on how intelligence is gathered of relevance to emergencies for which no immediate solution is found.
→ read full articleDesigning Global Self-governance for the Future
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2010
This is the development of the argument in an introductory paper (Tao of Engagement — Weaponised Interactions and Beyond: Fibonacci’s magic carpet of games to be played for sustainable global governance, 2010). It continues the exploration of the possibility of providing a common framework for the huge global investment in weaponry — and the binary logic associated with its use — in relation to a variety of other more complex games and non-weaponised modes of interaction.
→ read full articleTao of Engagement — Weaponised Interactions and Beyond
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2010
Produced in celebration of the United Nations International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures (2010) and the ever increasing development, manufacture and sale of arms by Permanent Members of the UN Security Council following the UN Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations (2001)
→ read full articleIMPLICATION OF PERSONAL DESPAIR IN PLANETARY DESPAIR
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2010
The argument here is that the very heavy investment in “hope”, especially in public discourse, is increasingly serving as a narcotic to dull such pain and to distract from acting in a more healthy manner in response to it.
→ read full articleADAPTIVE HYPERCYCLE OF SUSTAINABLE PSYCHOSOCIAL SELF-ORGANIZATION
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2010
Designing a Mapping of a Chinese Metaphorical Pattern Language Introduction This is specifically concerned with further possibilities of mapping the interrelationships between the set of conditions of change identified and encoded by the 64 hexagrams of the Chinese classic known variously as the Book of Changes, the I Ching, the Yi Jing or the I […]
→ read full articleSYSTEM DYNAMICS, HYPERCYCLES AND PSYCHOSOCIAL SELF-ORGANIZATION
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2010
Exploration of Chinese Correlative Understanding Introduction This document develops commentary in Club of Rome Reports and Bifurcations: a 40-year overview (2010). It is specifically concerned with how interrelated initiatives, such as those indicated there, might be understood as effectively mapping the territory of preoccupations with global governance — especially given their problematic relation to each […]
→ read full articleCLUB OF ROME REPORTS AND BIFURCATIONS: A 40-YEAR OVERVIEW
Anthony Judge – Laetus in Praesens,
20 Mar 2010
Significant Bifurcations Triggered by the History of the Club of RomeAs is to be expected, during the extended history of an organization, various initiatives were triggered by its approach as reflected in the reports and declarations listed below. Notably "bifurcations" include the following. 1. The first "Report to the Club of Rome" arose from a […]
→ read full articleBEYOND THE STANDARD MODEL OF UNIVERSAL AWARENESS
Anthony Judge – Laetus in Praesens,
14 Mar 2010
Being Not Even Wrong? Produced on the occasion of publication of a review of commentary on the Sokal Affair hoax perpetrated by physicist Alan Sokal and of the commissioning of the Inter-Academy Council to review IPCC processes of climate scientists in the light of the Climategate Affair.Introduction Vast amounts of public funds are expended by […]
→ read full articleMAPPING THE GLOBAL UNDERGROUND
Anthony Judge – Laetus in Praesens,
7 Mar 2010
Articulating Insightful Population Constraint Consideration (IPCC) Produced on the occasion of disastrous coastal flooding in France, leading to unprecedented loss of life and homelessness, and on the occasion of the announcement by the United Nations of the appointment of a panel to review the operations of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The period […]
→ read full articleHARMONY-COMPREHENSION AND WHOLENESS-ENGENDERING
Anthony Judge – Laetus in Praesens,
27 Feb 2010
Eliciting Psychosocial Transformational Principles from DesignIntroduction Christopher Alexander has produced a remarkable 4-volume synthesis (The Nature of Order: an essay on the art of building and the nature of the universe, 2003-4). In its focus on material design, "human nature" is subtly and curiously excluded — as with the current challenges of designing psychosocial systems […]
→ read full articleINTERWEAVING THEMATIC THREADS AND LEARNING PATHWAYS
Anthony Judge – Laetus in Praesens,
20 Feb 2010
Noonautics, Magic Carpets and WizdomesIntroduction Much is made of the ongoing explosion of communication intrinsic to sustaining a global society. Much less evident is whether this communication is in fact adequate to the challenges highlighted by Jared M. Diamond (Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed, 2005), Paul Ormerod (Why Most Things Fail: evolution, […]
→ read full articleWRITING GUIDELINES FOR FUTURE OCCUPATION OF EARTH BY EXTRATERRESTRIALS
Anthony Judge – Laetus in Praesens,
13 Feb 2010
Be Done By As You Did? Introduction Many have speculated on whether extraterrestrials would be characterized by exploitative, malevolent intent or by enlightened, benevolent intent — perhaps beyond current human understanding. Of course any malevolent intent might also be of a kind beyond human understanding, perhaps a form of structural violence, cultural violence, or even […]
→ read full articleCOGNITIVE IMPLICATIONS OF LIFESTYLE DISEASES OF RICH AND POOR
Anthony Judge – Laetus in Praesens,
7 Feb 2010
Transforming Personal Entanglement with the Natural Environment Introduction Lifestyle diseases (also called diseases of longevity, diseases of civilization, degenerative diseases, or noncommunicable diseases) variously identified and clustered are held to be a result of an inappropriate relationship of people with their environment.(Top 10 Lifestyle Diseases). As diseases of civilization, such diseases are found mostly in […]
→ read full articleINSIGHTS FOR THE FUTURE FROM THE CHANGE OF CLIMATE IN COPENHAGEN
Anthony Judge - Laetus in Praesens,
16 Jan 2010
The Meaning of "The Meaning of Copenhagen" Introduction Immediately following the United Nations Climate Change Conference (Copenhagen, 2009), a number of observers have posted comments analyzing the failure of the event in relation to the hopes originally associated with it. These include: · David Batty. Copenhagen reaction: delegates speak. The Guardian, 21 December 2009 · […]
→ read full articleRELEVANCE OF MYTHOPOEIC INSIGHTS TO GLOBAL CHALLENGES: COGNITIVE INTEGRATION IMPLIED BY THE LORD OF THE RINGS
Anthony Judge - Laetus in Praesens,
10 Jan 2010
Part 2 of Uncritical Strategic Dependence on Little-known Metrics (2009)Metrics with a "human face"? "Eclipse of the lifeworld": The nature of what tends to be lost in conventional abstraction has been highlighted by Steven M. Rosen (Topologies of the Flesh: a multidimensional exploration of the lifeworld, 2006; Dimensions of Apeiron: a topological phenomenology of space, […]
→ read full articleUNCRITICAL STRATEGIC DEPENDENCE ON LITTLE-KNOWN METRICS
Anthony Judge – Laetus in Praesens,
20 Dec 2009
The Gaussian Copula, the Kaya Identity, And What Else? Produced on the occasion of the problematic culmination of the United NationsClimate Change Conference (2009) apparently based on a particular use of a singlemetric. Introduction The unprecedented financial crisis of 2008 revealed the uncritical dependence of the global financial community and, by extension, the economic system, […]
→ read full articleGEOMETRY, TOPOLOGY AND DYNAMICS OF IDENTITY
Anthony Judge - Laetus in Praesens,
13 Dec 2009
Cognitive Implication in Fundamental Strategic Questions and Dilemmas Introduction The concern here is with the interplay between a sense of identity and the forms through which identity is expressed and patterned by psychological processes of identification. The focus is on how the range of simpler forms identified by geometry and topology function in support of […]
→ read full articleSINS OF HOT AIR EMISSION, OMISSION, COMMISSION AND PROMISSION
Anthony Judge - Laetus in Praesens,
6 Dec 2009
The Political Challenge of Responding to Global Crises Produced on the occasion of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (Copenhagen, 2009) Introduction Politically the issue of global warming, culminating in the United Nations Climate Change Conference (Copenhagen, 2009), is essentially focused on emissions engendering hot air. It has become increasingly obvious however that what is […]
→ read full articlePERIODIC PATTERN OF HUMAN KNOWING
Anthony Judge - Laetus in Praesens,
27 Nov 2009
Implication of the Periodic Table As Metaphor of Elementary Order Introduction The focus here is on the possible psychosocial implications of any new global understanding of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements (originally formulated by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869) in relation to other global frameworks. It is another approach to an argument initially developed in […]
→ read full articleOVERPOPULATION DEBATE AS A PSYCHOSOCIAL HAZARD
Anthony Judge,
21 Nov 2009
Development of Safety Guidelines from Handling Other Hazardous Materials Introduction Any discussion of the challenge of overpopulation has come to be considered such a political "hot potato" that the question of how to discuss it merits consideration in the light of well-developed ability to handle radioactive hazards and biohazards. The argument here focuses on how […]
→ read full articleEXISTENTIAL EMBODIMENT OF EXTERNALITIES
Anthony Judge - Laetus in Praesens,
13 Nov 2009
Radical Cognitive Engagement With Environmental Categories and Disciplines Introduction This is an exploration of the possibility that a viable response to the foreseen challenges of the globe and of human civilization may be of an unsuspected form. Whereas, at the time of writing, the focus is on the extreme urgency of constraining global warming and […]
→ read full articleRECOGNIZING THE PSYCHOSOCIAL BOUNDARIES OF REMEDIAL ACTION
Anthony Judge - Laetus in Praesens,
6 Nov 2009
Constraints on Ensuring a Safe Operating Space for HumanityIntroduction A team of 26 scientists, led by Johan Rockström and Will Steffen, and centered on the Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Stockholm Environment Institute, have produced a report entitled Planetary Boundaries: exploring the safe operating space for humanity (2009), separately summarized as The Nine Planetary Boundaries. […]
→ read full articleTRANSFORMING THE UNSUSTAINABLE COST OF GENERAL EDUCATION
Anthony Judge,
31 Oct 2009
Strategic Insights From Afghanistan Produced on the occasion of a new review of the strategy of the multinational coalition in Afghanistan, notably in the light of the request by General Stanley A. McChrystal for an additional 40,000 troops. Introduction The military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, especially the latter, highlight valuable questions about the cost […]
→ read full articleGEOMETRY OF THINKING FOR SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
Anthony Judge,
24 Oct 2009
Cognitive Implication of Synergetics Introduction Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) is renowned for his innovations as designer, inventor and futurist. He is most widely known for his invention of the seemingly improbable geodesic dome. One of his key initiatives was the elaboration (in collaboration with E.J. Applewhite) of an understanding of synergetics (Synergetics: Explorations in the […]
→ read full articleCONVERSION OF GLOBAL HOT AIR EMISSIONS TO MUSIC
Anthony Judge,
17 Oct 2009
Aesthetic Transformation and Instrumentalization of Vaporware Introduction In the period of last minute preparations for the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (Copenhagen, 2009), the focus worldwide is on the challenge of curtailing carbon emissions. At this stage there is concern that this event, held by many to be one of the most vital for […]
→ read full articleURGENT NEED FOR BLAIR AS PRESIDENT OF EUROPE
Anthony Judge,
9 Oct 2009
Maximizing Early Collective Learning in Anticipation of Future Crises Introduction The unusual procedure of requiring that the Irish engage in a second democratic vote on the EU Lisbon Reform Treaty sets an unusual precedent with regard to democratic voting more generally — particularly in the very period when it is being decided whether Afghanistan should […]
→ read full articleGLOBAL STRATEGIC ALTERNATIVES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY?
Anthony Judge,
3 Oct 2009
Contrasting Visual Caricatures In addition to its obvious practical advantages, as noted, the final image offers a mnemonic composite as: · a measure of size constraint in a population at risk of obesity, and a reminder of any constraining personal spare tire in a society challenged by excessive consumption · a valuable reminder of the […]
→ read full articleWE ARE ON THE BRINK OF FAILURE IN RESPONDING TO GLOBAL CRISES
Anthony Judge,
26 Sep 2009
Afghanistan As a Strategic MetaphorThe following text reframes the global strategic challenge, using the failure of conventional application of resources in Afghanistan as a metaphor. It has been developed as an editorial experiment using simplistic substitution, with due apologies, from the excellent text regarding the challenge in Afghanistan by Nick Clegg and Paddy Ashdown (We […]
→ read full articleGLOBAL STREET TWINNING IN POLYHEDRAL CONFIGURATIONS
Anthony Judge,
16 Sep 2009
An Application of Google Earth? Introduction Twinning between places has long been explored as a mode of facilitating relationships, sharing expertise and local cultures. This has been most evident in town twinning, or twinning between local authorities. More recently it has been extended, with intergovernmental support, to extend what had been explored in terms of […]
→ read full articleIDENTIFICATION OF BULLETS: HUMAN RIGHT AND HUMAN RESPONSIBILITY?
Anthony Judge,
10 Sep 2009
IntroductionMuch is made of the implications of the arms trade and the spread of weapons, notably manufactured by the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. This has become a fact of life and is accepted as such. Curiously it is less evident whose weapons are used in the final killing of individuals in […]
→ read full articleLIPOPROBLEMS: DEVELOPING A STRATEGY OMITTING A KEY PROBLEM
Anthony Judge,
7 Sep 2009
The Systemic Challenge of Climate Change and Resource Issues Introduction According to Wikipedia, a lipogram (from Greek lipogrammatos or lipagrammatos, "missing letter") is a form of constrained writing or word game consisting of writing texts in which a common letter or group of letters is omitted — usually a common vowel. The challenge is trivial […]
→ read full articleREFRAMING GLOBAL INITIATIVES FOR THE FUTURE: IN THE LIGHT OF PAST EXPERIMENTS
Anthony Judge,
28 Aug 2009
Introduction This is a brief reflection on how it might be fruitful to approach the possibility and organization of future global initiatives in the light of learnings from the past. Of particular interest is the possibility of informing such reflections with the more challenging insights from the sciences, namely to endeavour to take account of […]
→ read full articleUS AND THEM: RELATING TO CHALLENGING OTHERS
Anthony Judge,
24 Aug 2009
Patterns in the Shadow Dance Between "Good" and "Evil" Introduction Curiously there is a prevailing primitive sense that those most central to the dysfunctional dynamics of the world can be distinguished in terms of binary logic as "us" and "them". "Us" are necessarily the "good guys" acting appropriately, whether the criterion is economic growth, profitability, […]
→ read full articleBURKHA AS METAPHORICAL MIRROR FOR IMPERIOUS CULTURE?
Anthony Judge,
10 Aug 2009
Annex C of Facism as Superficial Intercultural Extremism: burkha, toplessness, sunglasses, beards, and flu masks. Introduction The arguments in the main paper (Facism as Superficial Intercultural Extremism: burkha, toplessness, sunglasses, beards, and flu masks, 2009) question capacity to associate identity meaningfully with the face — effectively assuming the validity of its projection onto an essentially […]
→ read full articleFACISM AS SUPERFICIAL INTERCULTURAL EXTREMISM
Anthony Judge,
7 Aug 2009
Burkha, Toplessness, Sunglasses, Beards, and Flu Masks Introduction This is an exploration of the focus given to the challenge to French cultural identity by women there wearing the full-body burkha (burka, burqa) garment obscuring any view of the face in public. The matter was a feature of an historic occasion — the first presidential address […]
→ read full articleIN QUEST OF A JOB VS. ENGENDERING EMPLOYMENT
Anthony Judge,
24 Jul 2009
Escaping Economic Disempowerment Through Enabling Metaphors and Software In memory of a little boy with a stock of six individual matches for sale on the pavement on the occasion of a congress of the World Futures Studies Federation (Cairo, 1979). Introduction The current worldwide economic crisis, following the financial crisis of 2008, is making it […]
→ read full articleGLOBALLOONING: STRATEGIC INFLATION OF EXPECTATIONS AND INCONSEQUENTIAL DRIFT
Anthony Judge,
17 Jul 2009
Global, Glo-Bull, Glow-Ball, Glow-Bawl Introduction This is an effort to identify the critical combination of factors contributing to consensus on the success of a global conference — achieving "lift-off" and ensuring it "flies" . It is partly inspired by the G8 Summit in Italy (July 2009) when media reports noted the failure to meet unpublished […]
→ read full articleUNITED NATIONS OVERPOPULATION DENIAL CONFERENCE: EXPLORING THE UNDERSIDE OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Anthony Judge,
26 Jun 2009
Introduction This is a contribution to future reflection on the significance of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (Copenhagen, 7-18 December 2009). The argument is summarized by a folktale. The case is supported below by the following interlinked considerations: 1. Questionable asystemic promotion of strategies against "climate change": o "climate change" as the "most […]
→ read full articlePERIODIC PATTERN OF HUMAN LIFE: THE PERIODIC TABLE AS A METAPHOR OF LIFELONG LEARNING
Anthony Judge,
17 Jun 2009
Introduction The following purely speculative exploration results from the recognition that very few people ever grow to be older than the number of chemical elements ordered in the well-known Periodic Table of Dmitri Mendeleev. The total number of those elements confirmed is currently 111, with unconfirmed claims made with regard to elements up to 122 […]
→ read full articleREFRAMING THE GAME OF STRATEGIC DILEMMAS
Anthony Judge,
14 Jun 2009
A 12-fold Interplay of Possibilities of Otherwise Introduction The purpose of this document is to point to resources enabling challenging strategic dilemmas to be reframed. The concern is framed by two insights from Albert Einstein:The significant problems we face can not be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created […]
→ read full articleVIABLE GLOBAL GOVERNANCE THROUGH BULLFIGHTING
Anthony Judge,
6 Jun 2009
Challenge of Transcendence Introduction Bullfighting (or tauromachy) is considered by many to be a flagrant example of glorified indulgence in abhorrent human cruelty to animals and a highly problematic reflection on those who appreciate it. It is also considered by some to exemplify some of the highest values of humanity, notably courage, skill and elegance […]
→ read full articleABUSE OF FAITH IN GOVERNANCE: MYSTERY OF THE UNASKED QUESTION
Anthony Judge,
20 May 2009
Introduction This is written in a period of multiple and extraordinary collective crises of "faith". It is however curious that the contexts for such crises are quite distinct and the faith in question in each case is not considered as having anything in common with that in other cases. The term used is however the […]
→ read full articleENTANGLED TALES OF MEMETIC DISASTER – MUTUAL IMPLICATION OF THE EMPEROR AND THE LITTLE BOY
Anthony Judge,
14 May 2009
Introduction The following table provides a succinct summary of the many factors contributing to an Emerging Memetic Singularity in the Global Knowledge Society (2009). The table is based on two well-known tales: · The Emperor’s New Clothes (1837) by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen about a gullible emperor who unknowingly hires two con […]
→ read full articleGENERIC REFRAMING OF THE 12 TRIBES OF “ISRAEL”
Anthony Judge,
12 May 2009
"We Have Met the Zionists and Them is Us" Prepared on the occasion of the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Jerusalem. Introduction This exploration follows from a conclusion of the experiment Towards a Generic Global Issue Statement: evoking an instructive pattern of unquestionable responses (2009) of which it is effectively an Annex. The question […]
→ read full articleTOWARDS A GENERIC GLOBAL ISSUE STATEMENT
Anthony Judge,
28 Apr 2009
Evoking an Instructive Pattern of Unquestionable Responses Introduction This is an effort to learn from the dynamics of global issue articulation using as a first example the highly controversial and provocative presentation by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran on the occasion of the UN Durban Review Conference on Racism and Racial Discrimination (Geneva, 21 April […]
→ read full articleREMEDIES TO GLOBAL CRISIS: “ALLOPATHIC” OR “HOMEOPATHIC?
Anthony Judge,
22 Apr 2009
Metaphorical Complementarity of "Conventional" and "Alternative" Models Prepared on the occasion of World Homeopathy Awareness Week (April 2009). “I do like the idea of Ashoka’s pillars as acupuncture needles – and the idea that the global brain may be suffering from bipolar disorder!” – Tony Judge Introduction At the time of a global financial crisis […]
→ read full articleCONSIDERING ALL THE STRATEGIC OPTIONS
Anthony Judge,
13 Apr 2009
Whilst Ignoring Alternatives and Disclaiming Cognitive Protectionism Introduction This exploration is inspired by the decision in March 2009 — immediately before the NATO Summit in April 2009 — that further military resources should be allocated to the Afghanistan/Pakistan arena as the prime source of "terror" on the planet. This decision was announced despite a succesion […]
→ read full articleTERROR AS DISTRACTANT FROM MORE DEADLY GLOBAL THREATS
Anthony Judge,
7 Apr 2009
Bewitching World of Definitional Game-Playing Introduction This is a response to the reinforced initiative by the USA in Afghanistan — framed as the world’s prime training ground for terrorism — and possibly to be understood as the arena of the greatest military strategic failures in history. The new strategy was formally presented by Barack Obama […]
→ read full articleCOGNITIVE BALLISTICS vs. DERIVATIVE CORRELATION IN MEMETIC WARFARE
Anthony Judge,
30 Mar 2009
Suicide Bombing as a Weapon of Mass Distraction? Introduction Given the success with which the western-inspired financial bubble of "globalization" was so disastrously exploded, this is an exploration of the possibility that ensuring the strategic focus on suicide bombing as the epitome of terrorism has been the mistaken pursuit of a decoy. Such a possibility […]
→ read full articleLOOKING IN THE MIRROR – AT JOSEF FRITZL?
Anthony Judge,
23 Mar 2009
Global Conditions on Reflection Introduction In November 2008, Mumbai was the focus of a serious terrorist attack which was a shock to India and the world. Amongst the multitude of commentaries on the incident, perhaps the most insightful was that by Arundhati Roy (Mumbai was not our 9/11, The Guardian, 12 December 2008): The only […]
→ read full articleFRAMING THE GLOBAL FUTURE BY IGNORING ALTERNATIVES
Anthony Judge,
20 Mar 2009
Unfreezing Categories as a Vital Necessity Images as indicators In preparation for the much-heralded, key meeting of the G20 Group in London (March 2009), two striking images were produced. The negatives are reproduced below: · The Financial Times identified a set of 50 people "whose position, skills and contacts allow them to define the debate […]
→ read full articlePOETIC ENGAGEMENT WITH AFGHANISTAN, CAUCASUS AND IRAN – AN UNEXPLORED STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITY?
Anthony Judge,
7 Mar 2009
Introduction This exploration is in response to strategic challenges in the region named. It is a development of earlier studies of the interface between strategy and poetry (Poetry-making and Policy-making: arranging a marriage between Beauty and the Beast, 1993; Ensuring Strategic Resilience through Haiku Patterns: reframing the scope of the "martial arts" in response to […]
→ read full articleENGAGING WITH GLOBALITY – THROUGH COGNITIVE LINES, CIRCLETS, CROWNS OR HOLES
Anthony Judge,
27 Feb 2009
Overview of a four-fold exploration. Produced on the occasion of the "coronation" of Barack Obama (as president of the country from which insightful leadership is expected in response to global problems) and of the "crowning experience" of the Davos World Economic Forum (for the instigators and observers of the global credit crisis and its consequences). […]
→ read full articleEXTREME FINANCIAL RISK-TAKING AS EXTREMISM
Anthony Judge,
19 Feb 2009
Subject to anti-terrorism legislation? Introduction This is an exploration of the degree to which financial risk-taking, of the kind acknowledged and deplored as central to the financial crash of 2008, can be defined as "extremism". And, to the extent that that is the case, does such extremism fall under the proscriptions of anti-terrorism legislation — […]
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Anthony Judge,
13 Jan 2009
Challenge of Incomprehensibility of Systemic Neglect Introduction The following exploration uses as its point of departure a much-cited "strategic" poem presented by Donald Rumsfeld as US Secretary of Defense. The cognitive categories of the poem, and what was omitted, are used to elaborate various ways of ordering strategies — possibly in the form of "periodic […]
→ read full articleENGENDERING THE FUTURE THROUGH SELF-REFLEXIVE GROUP INITIATIVES
Anthony Judge,
23 Dec 2008
Introduction This deliberately speculative exploration is based on a set of radical assumptions, namely that: 1. Self-reflexivity is essential to moving beyond the collective initiatives that effectively give rise to "business as usual", especially in cases where their claims to act differently themselves follow a pattern appropriately described as "more of the same". Relevant arguments […]
→ read full articleCLIMATE CHANGE AS A METAPHOR OF SOCIAL CHANGE
Anthony Judge,
6 Dec 2008
Systemic Implications of Emissions, Ozone, Sunlight, Greenhouse and Overheating Introduction Since "climate change" is now framed as THE crisis faced by humanity on the planet, and all creative resources are to be mobilized in response, there is a case for exploring how such a crisis may be understood in other ways. The merit of doing […]
→ read full articleSTRATEGIC CHALLENGE OF POLYSENSORIAL KNOWLEDGE – BRINGING THE “ELEPHANT” INTO “FOCUS”
Anthony Judge,
28 Nov 2008
Introduction The following summary table follows from a concern with the strategic bias towards metaphoric framing solely through "vision" rather than through appropriate use of other senses and "ways of knowing" (Metaphor and the Language of Futures, 1992; Antonio de Nicolás, Habits of Mind: an introduction to philosophy of education, 2000; Howard Gardner, Frames of […]
→ read full articleCLIMATE OF CHANGE MISREPRESENTED AS CLIMATE CHANGE
Anthony Judge,
19 Nov 2008
Introduction This is a summary of ways in which the focus on climate change, understood as a problem, is being used, deliberately or inadvertently, to reframe the climate of change. The latter was previously associated with the innovative potentials of a new century, openness to new "thinking", the possibility of a "paradigm shift", and new […]
→ read full articleGEO-ENGINEERING OVERSIGHT AGENCY FOR THERMAL STABILIZATION (GOATS)
Anthony Judge,
13 Nov 2008
Introduction An editorial in the journal New Scientist (Time to rank the best ideas to engineer the climate, 29 October 2008) has just echoed the proposal of Philip W. Boyd (Ranking Geo-engineering Schemes, Nature Geoscience, 2008, 1, 26 October 2008, pp 722 – 724) who argues: Geo-engineering proposals for mitigating climate change continue to proliferate […]
→ read full articleCLIMATE CHANGE AND THE ELEPHANT IN THE LIVING ROOM
Anthony Judge,
29 Oct 2008
Quest of an Endangered Species Introduction The debate on climate change has offered many occasions for reference to the proverbial "elephant in the living room". Climate change itself has been seen in this way as an unmentionable feature in a context of efforts to ensure "business as usual". Indicative examples include: · discussion of the […]
→ read full articleSYSTEMIC CRISES AS KEYS TO SYSTEMIC REMEDIES
Anthony Judge,
12 Oct 2008
A Metaphorical Rosetta Stone for Future Strategy? The drama of the financial crisis and "credit crunch" — sufficient cause for grave concern — is presented here as exemplifying underlying cognitive patterns that should be cause for even greater concern. A case is presented here for looking at environmental overshoot "through" the cognitive framework of the […]
→ read full articleCredibility Crunch Engendered by Hope-Mongering
Anthony Judge,
30 Sep 2008
"Credit Crunch" Focus as Symptom of a Dangerous Mindset The drama of the financial crisis and "credit crunch" — sufficient cause for grave concern — is presented here as exemplifying underlying cognitive patterns that should be cause for even greater concern. Much is made of doom-mongering — of which the legendary Greek Casandra is confusingly […]
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