Anthony Judge: Civilization as a Global Configuration of Silences

Civilization as a Global Configuration of Silences Recognizing silence of a higher order Introduction Modes of unsensing and unrecognition Varieties of conspiracies of silence Varieties of silences of the professions Engaging with silence through other metaphors Qualities of silence as variously appreciated Confronting incommensurable forms of silence Silence / Ignorance / Uncertainty as fundamentally interwoven? …

Anthony Judge: Affinity, Diaspora, Identity, Reunification, Return – Reimagining possibilities of engaging with place and time

Affinity, Diaspora, Identity, Reunification, Return Reimagining possibilities of engaging with place and time Introduction Official administrative “necessities”? Property “possession” and ownership Questionable claims to possession Possession of a sense of place Divided realms and domains as variously possessed Dispossession, repossession and being possessed Possession of a worldview within the noosphere Associative diasporas and degrees of …

Anthony Judge: Playing the Great Game with Intelligence

Playing the Great Game with Intelligence Authority versus the People Introduction Playing “chess” authoritatively with the People Classic openings in the Great Game Recognizing patterns in the Great Game Identifying patterns of moves with respect to “intelligence” Recognizing patterns in the Greater Game with Otherness Interplay of black and white in the Greater Game Experimental …

Anthony Judge: Forthcoming Major Revolution in Global Dialogue Challenging new world order of interactive communication

  Forthcoming Major Revolution in Global Dialogue Challenging new world order of interactive communication Introduction Indicative uptake of new communication technologies Unresolved challenges to engaging dialogue Reframing dialogue constrained by value polarities Relevant technologies — existing and under development Revolution in engaging dialogue? Nature of “global” dialogue AI Dialogue: beyond the Turing Test to the …

Anthony Judge: Psychosocial Implication of Without Within Enjoying going solar for oneself

Psychosocial Implication of Without Within Enjoying going solar for oneself Introduction Going solar as an exercise in technomimicry Planets “within” as vehicles for significance? Internalizing alternative modes of transportation Objects, projects, rejects and subjects Questionable objectification of the natural environment Dominion over the world “without” — understood as being “within” Problems of society as “within” …

Anthony Judge: Systematic Gerrymandering of Declared Threats and Legality of Response – Opportunistic exceptionalism underlying promulgated rules of governance

Systematic Gerrymandering of Declared Threats and Legality of Response Opportunistic exceptionalism underlying promulgated rules of governance Introduction 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 …

Anthony Judge: Global Security from an Interplanetary Perspective

Global Security from an Interplanetary Perspective Interplanetary Security Council — Resolution on Planet Earth 27 Mres’klon 4013 Following is an unofficial translation of the purported resolution of the Interplanetary Security Council regarding the Planet Earth. A corrected translation may be anticipated. This unusual document appears to follow the pattern of earlier purported resolutions of the …