Articles by Anthony Judge
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IN 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 It is partly inspired by the G8 Summit in Italy (July 2009) when media reports noted the failure to meet unpublished […]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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