Articles by Anthony Judge
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TERROR 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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