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? |
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