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Arguments questioning the current framing of radicalisation and terrorism


Radical Innovators Beware -- in the arts, sciences and philosophy (Part #8)


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The following papers are cited -- with details of their sections -- as a device to avoid revisiting contextual arguments already made with respect to the issues arising from the current French initiative. Each paper has extensive references.

Coming Out as a Radical -- or Coming In? Risks of cultivating negative capability in a caliphate of normality (2015)

-- General relativity of terror
-- a context for both demonisation and empathy?
-- Radical as a questionable focus of antipathy?
-- Radical as a questionable focus of empathy?
-- Radical quest: getting to the root of a problem?
-- Radical identification of the root cause of terrorism
-- Failure of radical analysis of root causes

-- Radicalism vs Superficialism: definitional game-playing
-- Radical exemplars disruptive of normality
-- Pathetic policy, psychology, philosophy and propaganda
-- Institution of a caliphate of normality by fiat
-- Radical disposal of the disagreeable, the undesirable and the unbelievers
-- Reframing the quest for root causes
-- Radical speculation anticipating radical extraterrestrials?

Radical Localization in a Global Systemic Context: Distinguishing normality using playing card suits as a pattern language (2015)

-- Playing card suit patterns
-- Systemic interpretations of playing card patterns

-- Refining appreciation of distinctions by refining pattern geometry
-- Finding the radicalising and the radical in a systemic context

Identifying the Root Cause Focus of Radical Identity: Reframing the complex space of radicalisation dynamics (2015)

-- Ordering multiple competing quests for radical causes
-- Metaphorical frame offered by the periodic table of chemical elements
-- Metaphorical frame offered by the relationship between hydrogen and helium as fundamental extremes
-- Metaphorical frame offered by an 8x8 configuration typical of board games

-- Metaphorical frame offered by 8x8 encoding patterns in Chinese tradition
-- Metaphorical frame offered by 8x8 patterns comprehensible as "logical"
-- Metaphorical frame offered by insight from an 8x8 magic square
-- Metaphorical frame offered by understandings of axes of bias
-- Beyond the tabular plan in a global context

Counteracting Extremes Enabling Normal Flying: insights for global governance from birds on the wing (2015)

-- Underside of normality?
-- Lost art of bird watching?
-- Bird flight as offering a global transformation of systemic perspective
-- Styles of flight as styles of governance
-- Empowering democratic take-off through coordinated wing flapping

-- Lift, banking and control as functions of radical extremes
-- Reducing extremism by reduction of "wing length"?
-- Speculative alternatives for global governance?
-- Evolutionary possibilities for global governance?

Radicalisation of Existence and Identity: Recognizing the global emergence and influence of daimonic dynamics (2015)

-- Indicative forms of radicalisation of existential focus
-- Metaphorical clues to radicalisation of existence and identity
-- Daimonisation as answering a radical question?
-- Clues to radicalisation from astrophysics and solar evolution
-- Clues to radicalisation from nature and the environment
-- Clues to radicalisation from matter and its organization

-- Radical implications of daimonisation for weather and climate change?
-- Waveforms, catastrophe, singularity and annihilation
-- Radicalisation in the light of mathematics (geometry, topology and logic)
-- Metaphysics, mysticism and meditation
-- Existence within daimonic reality?
-- Identity within daimonic reality?

Radicalisation versus Demonisation? Enabling radical initiatives under conditions of strategic stalemate (2015)

-- Varieties of radical -- as a perspective or worldview
-- Varieties of radicalism -- being radical or so perceived
-- Varieties of radical action

-- Varieties of radicalisation -- becoming a radical and adopting radical modalities
-- Patterning the varieties of radical experience
-- Radicalisation and demonisation: system dynamics of US and THEM
-- Demonisation reframed as daimonisation?

Beheading versus Befooting: In quest of the lesser evil for the greater good (2014)

-- Befooting and befooted?
-- Befooting by anti-personnel landmines
-- Victims of befooting
-- Befooting as a lesser evil?

-- Degrees of evil
-- Systemic imperceptibility of greater evil-- and of greater good?
-- Paradoxes of framing the greater evil using the Devil's Gambit
-- Engendering identification with the greater good, despite the necessity for lesser evil

Norms in the Global Struggle against Extremism: "rooting for" normalization vs. "rooting out" extremism? (2005)

-- Rooting out extremists
-- Concept of "extremism"
-- Extremism as a quality control problem (Six Sigma methodology)
-- Social deviance as extremism
-- Other possible understandings of extremism
-- Methodological reservations regarding a statistical approach

-- Terrorizing others by extremism
-- Condoning extremism and its potential for terrorism
-- Struggle against extremism: the ultimate global challenge for norms
-- Human quality control: activities susceptible to extremism
-- Possible implications
-- Moderation as extremism -- norms as extremist?

Eradication as the Strategic Final Solution of the 21st Century? Indicative checklist of possible domains of application (2014)

-- Eradication as primarily inspired by the philosophy of weeding
-- Preponderance of references to the eradication of zombies
-- Indicative checklist of domains of strategic predisposition to eradication
-- Evaluation of strategies of eradication and the possibility of alternatives

-- Eradication in the light of radicalization, liminality and termination
-- Unquestionable eradication and the eradication of questioning
-- Toward comprehending the paradoxical eradication dilemma of the Abrahamic religions

Systematic Gerrymandering of Declared Threats and Legality of Response: Opportunistic exceptionalism underlying promulgated rules of governance (2013)

-- Defining threat, especially from terrorism
-- Defining legality, especially in response to threat
-- Defining proof, especially in a context of perceived threat
-- Enabling gerrymandering through doublespeak in response to threat

-- Unsuspected "crown jewels" of intelligence community: backdoors to the mind?
-- Ensuring confidence in democratic supervision
-- Enabling oversight through simulation of requisite complexity
-- Transforming from paranoia through metanoia and hyponoia?

"Big Brother" Crying "Wolf"? But them "wolves" are a-changin'
-- them's becomin' "werewolves"!
(2013)

-- Big Brother crying "wolf"?
-- Erosion of credibility of authority
-- Trust, confidence, and credibility under a regime of total insecurity
-- Appreciating the Emperor's new clothes -- as designed by NSA
-- Clues for an existential turnaround?
-- Questionable "existence" of Al-Qaida

-- Questionable "existence" NSA/PRISM
-- Cultivation of "terror", "terrorism" and "terrific"
-- Ambiguity of "democratic oversight": institutionalisation of negligence?
-- Fear of change: engaging otherwise with "werewolves"
-- Embodying "malware" transformatively: No Security Anywhere (NSA)?
-- Paradoxical correspondences and complementarity

Guidelines in Response to Degrees of Anti-social Behaviour: Airline passengers and children as a case study (2011)

-- Existing institutional provisions
-- Increasing frustration with "anti-social behaviour"
-- Complicit relationships: "exporting" the problem
-- What do you want me to do?
-- Innovative options for consideration by airline authorities
-- Possible guideline scale

-- Simulation and testing
-- Institutional initiatives
-- Travel industry media and commentary
-- Commentary by/for parents
-- Documented research

Global Incomprehension of Increasing Violence: Matching incapacity to question the reason why (2016)

-- Constraints on questioning why?
-- Violence as primary means of getting attention in democratically deficient societies?
-- In quest of extraterrestrials whilst ignoring terrestrial "extras"?

-- Who speaks for the other?
-- Thinking strategically otherwise?
-- Mapping the system of uncritical thinking?


Addendum 2017

France unveils first de-radicalisation centre to tackle Islamist threat (France24, 14 September 2016)

France's 'deradicalisation gravy train' runs out of steam (France24, 2 August 2017)

'Jihadi Rehab' Deradicalisation Centre Closes Doors Because Extremists Didn't Volunteer to Take Part (Breitbart, 31 July 2017)

France's only de-radicalisation centre closes its doors (Agence France Presse, 28 July 2017)


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