Archive for the 'magic'

• Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the poetry of names

July 26th, 2016 by Charles Cameron

Posted in Charles Cameron, Doublequotes, doubletweets, Lakota, magic, name, poetry, turkey, Uncategorized | 1 comment

• Indistinguishable from magic?

July 20th, 2016 by Charles Cameron

Posted in analytic, blogosphere, Charles Cameron, Hipbone Analysis, magic, science, science fiction, Uncategorized | Comments Off on Indistinguishable from magic?

• Recommended Reading—Summer 2016

July 11th, 2016 by J.ScottShipman

Posted in 20th century, 21st century, abstraction, academia, analogy, anglosphere, art, authors, book, cognition, complexity, consilience, creativity, critical thinking, Design, diplomacy, emergence, europe, foreign policy, history, ideas, illegal combatants, imagination, innovation, intellectuals, intelligence, interdisciplinary, J. Scott Shipman, john boyd, language, linguistics, literature, magic, memory, metaphor, military professionalism, Patterns, Perception, philosophy, poetry, recommended reading, russia, strategy, synthesis, uncertainty, visualization, weapons of mass destruction, wwii | 8 comments

• Announcing ! BLOOD SACRIFICES

May 25th, 2016 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 3 gen gangs, 4GW, amazon, analytic, anthropology, Apocalyptic, authors, blasphemy, blog-friends, book, ceremonial, Charles Cameron, counterterrorism, criminals, cultural intelligence, culture, death, dystopia, extremists, gangs, historians, ideas, illegal combatants, insurgency, intellectuals, interdisciplinary, law enforcement, magic, management of barbarism / savagery, myth, narcoterror, networks, non-state actors, occult, organizations, primary loyalties, psychology, radicalization, Religion, robert j. bunker, sacred, sacrifice, sane / insane, secret, sectarian, social networks, society, state failure, symbolism, terrorism, Theology, theory, torture, transnational criminal organization, tribes, tyrrell, war, warriors | Comments Off on Announcing ! BLOOD SACRIFICES

• Turchin on Human Sacrifice and Society

April 12th, 2016 by zen

Posted in analytic, ancient history, anthropology, Archaeology, blog-friends, ceremonial, complex systems, complexity, cooperation, counterpoint, culture, debate, egalitarianism, history, ideas, intellectuals, ISIS, magic, Musings, myth, politics, population, power, prayer, Prehistoric, psychology, Religion, sacrament, sacred, sacrifice, social science, society, sociobiology, symbolism, T Greer, Theology, theory, tribes, war | 1 comment