DoubleQuotes consist of two quotes (or images), juxtaposed. They are intended to work in a way that I learned from haiku: as thoughts dropped into the mind-pond, not so much for their own sakes as for their concentric ripples and the interference patterns between them.
DoubleQuotes are a subset of my analytic work using concepts drawn from Herman Hesse's Glass Bead Game and my playable variants, the HipBone Games.
Juan Cole's Informed Comment blog carried an entry yesterday entitled The Schiavo Case and the Islamization of the Republican Party.
I'm illustrating Cole's thesis here, drawing on two examples he gave of divorce imposed by law on individuals who have not requested it. There are of course significant differences between the two situations: the point as I see it is that the similarities are nonetheless too close for comfort.
I'm the designer of the HipBone Games, playable variants on Hermann Hesse's Glass Bead Game. I'm associated with the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University, and worked as Senior Analyst at The Arlington Institute, a beltway think tank in Virginia, on the social impact of large and surprising changes. Presently I'm focusing on the Middle East and developing a tool for conflict analysis -- and hopefully, eventually, conflict resolution!
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