Frameworks for problem solving in complex environments
Adapting ideas about triple loop learning, wicked problems, and Cynefin from management models can be a useful starting point for problem solving in complex environments.
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Tolerance of intolerance is insanity
Fascism and Stalinism are in vogue again because it’s easier to follow than to do any independent thinking.
Musk comment highlights Australian journalism’s failure
How one comment about Elon Musk’s Twitter bid highlights the failures evident in all of Australian news media and journalism.
Identifying the fascist tendencies of Morrison’s Coalition
Umberto Eco helps us understand the Morrison Coalition’s fascist tendencies, but only News Corp can show us how it got there.
The Rowling affair: Our ignorance, narcissism, and neo-Stalinism reflected back at us
JK Rowling is no TERF, no matter the neo-Stalinist cant being promoted by the Google-media-Wikipedia disinformation network.
The Mysterians: Yankee go home?
Japanese Mysterians film likely carried an anti-imperialist, anti-American message under standard SF cliches of the era.
Jane Austen: not ‘great literature’
The novels of Jane Austen are not great literature for their naïve and narrow conception of the world, which approaches propaganda.
The Glass Key (1942)
Stuart Heisler’s screen adaptation of Dashiell Hammet’s The Glass Key gives us a character study of the noir anti-hero as descended from Eve and the original sin.
Crossfire (1947)
Edward Dmytryk’s 1947 Crossfire courageously attacks the bigotry of antisemitism and, more subtly, homophobia, on a shoestring budget but with outstanding performances.
Citizen Kane (1941)
Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane (1941) is not quite the unsurpassed masterpiece often claimed, but it is nevertheless a considerable cinematic achievement.
In the news … October/November 2021
Commentary on the news, current affairs, journalism, and the news media landscape more generally for October 2021.
Laura 1944
Laura (1944) is an entertaining murder mystery melodrama, highly acclaimed in its own time, but not really a film noir as uncritically and widely claimed today.
In the news … May 2021
Commentary on the news, current affairs, journalism, and the news media landscape more generally for May 2021.
In the news … April 2021
Commentary on the news, current affairs, journalism, and the news media landscape more generally for April 2021.
Spellbound (1945)
Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound remains captivating, though contexts have changed for genres, subject, and artistic treatment.