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Keywords: criticism, critical, assumptions, radical, dissent, definitional, bias, biases, constraints, limits, warping, groupthink, missing, disagreement, opposition, distinctions, boundaries, consensus, conspiracy, ambiguities, flatland, antagonistic, apartheid, apartness, critique, schism, negative, negativity, antagonism, difference, unsaid, incompatibility, incommensurability, distortion, provocations

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• [2010] Changing the System not the Planet: missing a conceptual link? (23k, 18w)
• [2010] Missing the New Renaissance? (83k, 34w)
• [2010] Re-Emergence of the Language of the Birds through Twitter? (167k, 103w)
• [2009] Incapacity to Manage Differences * (23k, 27w)
• [2009] Looking in the Mirror -- at Josef Fritzl ? (60k, 28w)
• [2009] Radical Disagreement Reframed Metaphorically through Intersexuality * (18k, 1w)
• [2009] Recognizing the Psychosocial Boundaries of Remedial Action (58k, 55w)
• [2008] Climate Change and the Elephant in the Living Room (122k, 128w)
• [2008] Global Quality Navigation System (GQS): participative enhancement of aesthetic discovery (26k, 4w)
• [2008] Moving Symbols: Radical Change in Psycho-social Energy Policy? (90k, 56w)
• [2008] Self-reflexive Challenges of Integrative Futures (61k, 33w)
• [2007] Emergence of a Global Misleadership Council: misleading as vital to governance of the future? (125k, 144w)
• [2007] Living Differences for Sustainable Lifestyles * (5k)
• [2007] Root Irresponsibility for Major World Problems: the unexamined role of Abrahamic faiths in sustaining unrestrained population growth (110k, 122w)
• [2006] Epistemological Challenge of Cognitive Body Odour: exploring the underside of dialogue (55k, 47w)
• [2006] Guidelines for Critical Dialogue between Worldviews: as exemplified by the need for non-antisemitic dialogue with Israelis? (142k, 106w)
• [2005] Avoiding Dialogue with Alternative Worldviews at any Cost: Timid hypocrisy in responding to terrorism (36k, 43w)
• [2005] Being Positive and Avoiding Negativity: Management challenge of positive vs negative (126k, 118w)
• [2005] Cardioid Attractor Fundamental to Sustainability: 8 transactional games forming the heart of sustainable relationship (90k, 83w)
• [2005] Cui Bono: Groupthink vs Thinking the Unthinkable? Reframing the suffocating consensus in response to 7/7 (307k, 441w)
• [2005] Enlightening Endarkenment: selected web resources on the challenge to comprehension (114k, 81w)
• [2005] Imagination, Resolution, Emergence, Realization and Embodiment: iterative comprehension ordered via the dynamics of the Mandelbrot set (9k, 3w)
• [2005] Liberating Provocations: use of negative and paradoxical strategies (98k, 168w)
• [2005] Provocations libératrices: Du bon usage des stratégies négatives et paradoxales (92k, 50w)
• [2005] Provocations libératrices: Du bon usage des stratégies négatives et paradoxales (92k, 50w)
• [2005] Psycho-social Significance of the Mandelbrot Set: a sustainable boundary between chaos and order (74k, 53w)
• [2005] Sustainability through the Dynamics of Strategic Dilemmas: in the light of the coherence and visual form of the Mandelbrot set (151k, 167w)
• [2005] Website of Differences * (2k)
• [2004] Dynamically Gated Conceptual Communities (165k, 156w)
• [2004] Encoding emergent and hidden distinctions: reflective representation of polarized thinking * (5k, 5w)
• [2004] Is God a Terrorist: Definitional game-playing by the Coalition of the Willing? (118k, 110w)
• [2004] Seven Deadly Sins of Fundamentalism: assessing memetic weapons capability of neoconservatism (88k, 78w)
• [2004] Towards a Logico-mathematical Formalization of "Sin": Fundamental memetic organization of faith-based governance strategies (146k, 163w)
• [2004] Twistedness in Psycho-social Systems: challenge to logic, morality, leadership and personal development (44k, 47w)
• [2003] AWOL: American Way Of Life: Assumptions -- justifying worldwide imposition of democratic imperialism (16k, 5w)
• [2003] Don Justo's Self-Built Cathedral: metaphoric learnings for contemporary alternative initiatives (36k, 29w)
• [2003] Global Strategic Implications of the Unsaid: from myth-making towards a wisdom society (52k, 107w)
• [2003] Terminal Empowerment: socio-political implications of radical mutual assistance amongst the terminally ill (37k, 25w)
• [2003] Varieties of the Unsaid in sustaining psycho-social community (133k, 208w)
• [2002] Groupthink: the Search for Archaeoraptor as a Metaphoric Tale (31k, 19w)
• [2002] Warping the Judgement of Dissenting Opinion: Source materials (129k, 264w)
• [2002] Warping the Judgement of Dissenting Opinion: Source materials (83k, 170w)
• [2002] Warping the Judgement of Dissenting Opinion: towards a general framework for comparing distortion in rules of evidence (81k, 158w)
• [2001] Being Bushed: multiple personality disorder in a globalized religious flatland (26k, 13w)
• [2001] Coherent Patterns of Schism Formation, Bifurcation and Disagreement (15k)
• [2001] Conspiracy and Terrorism (55k, 1w)
• [2001] Critical Thinking vs Specious Arguments (14k, 57w)
• [2001] Needing Evil Elsewhere (11k, 6w)
• [2000] Critical Factors for the Long-term Survival of Humanity (9k)
• [1998] Boundaries of Sustainability in Community-Oriented Organizations (37k, 5w)
• [1998] Developing an Internet Framework for Creative Dialogue on Irreconcilable Policy Differences (7k)
• [1998] Living Differences as a basis for Sustainable Community: Designing a difference engine (74k, 29w)
• [1998] Reframing Personal Relationships between Innovators or Leaders (28k, 6w)
• [1998] Sustaining a pattern of alternative community initiatives: based on their differences from the conventional economic rationale (26k, 4w)
• [1997] In Quest of Uncommon Ground: beyond impoverished metaphor and the impotence of words of power (65k)
• [1997] Sustaining the Coherence of Dialogue through Apartness: configuration of entities through hypertext (26k, 1w)
• [1995] Approaches to the art of disagreement (Method: Integrative Knowledge Project)
• [1995] Assumptions (Criteria: World Problems Project)
• [1995] Assumptions (Method: Human Development Project)
• [1995] Beyond the constraints of text (Context: Transformative Approaches Project)
• [1995] Biases (Assessment: Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential)
• [1995] Consensus, uncertainty and action formulation (Action implications: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Constraints on a meta-answer (Strategic appropriateness: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Constraints on patterning disagreement (Method: Integrative Knowledge Project)
• [1995] Constraints on a problem-focused approach (Significance: World Problems Project)
• [1995] Contrasting strategic styles (Embracing difference: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Criticism (Assessment: Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential)
• [1995] Cultural and educational biases (Significance: Human Development Project)
• [1995] Definitional Boundary Games and De-signing the 21st Century (19k)
• [1995] Economic bias (Significance: Human Development Project)
• [1995] Form and communication (Embracing difference: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] In quest of radical coherence (Post-crisis opportunities: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Integrating constraint and opposition (Strategic ecosystem: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Integrating opposition (Strategic appropriateness: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Language-determined distinctions (Method: Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential)
• [1995] Modes of awareness and experiential biases (Significance: Human Development Project)
• [1995] Mythical, religious and spiritual biases (Significance: Human Development Project)
• [1995] Paradoxical merit of negative strategies (Post-crisis opportunities: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Patterning disagreement (Comments: Integrative Knowledge Project)
• [1995] "Positive" vs "Negative" strategies (Method: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Psychological bias (Significance: Human Development Project)
• [1995] Social and educational biases (Significance: Human Development Project)
• [1995] Strategic assumptions (Overview: Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential)
• [1995] Subtler forms of disagreement (Method: Integrative Knowledge Project)
• [1995] System dynamics (Embracing difference: Global Strategies Project)
• [1995] Using disagreements for superordinate frame configuration (Configuring: Transformative Approaches Project)
• [1994] In Quest of Radical Coherence: a group design initiative (10k, 1w)
• [1994] NGOs and Civil Society: Realities and Distortions (94k, 13w)
• [1993] Axes of Bias in Inter-cultural Dialogue (5k, 1w)
• [1993] Insights evoked by intractable international differences (45k, 7w)
• [1993] Systems of Categories Distinguishing Cultural Biases: with notes on facilitation in a multicultural environment (19k, 4w)
• [1993] Using Disagreements for Superordinate Frame Configuration (12k, 6w)
• [1992] Axes of Bias in Inter-Sectoral Dialogue (5k, 2w)
• [1992] Computer Graphics: Constraints and Possibilities (6k)
• [1992] Future Coping Strategies: Beyond the constraints of proprietary metaphors (59k, 1w)
• [1992] Sustaining Higher Orders of Policy Consensus through Metaphor: towards a new language of governance (9k, 7w)
• [1991] Higher Orders of Inter-sectoral Consensus (74k, 1w)
• [1987] Reflections on Associative Constraints and Possibilities in an Information society (51k, 6w)
• [1984] Differences in Style of Artistic and Policy Endeavour: Towards Transformative Conferencing and Dialogue (Part P) (15k, 1w)
• [1983] Antagonistic Dualities: Polarization and Paradox (20k, 79w)
• [1983] Further Constraints on Conceptual Container Design (35k, 79w)
• [1982] Nyetworking Conspiracy of the New Age (14k, 1w)
• [1981] Anti-Developmental Biases in Thesaurus Design (50k, 3w)
• [1981] Beyond Method: engaging opposition in psycho-social organization (106k, 7w)
• [1980] Societal Learning and the Erosion of Collective Memory: a critique of the Club of Rome Report (159k, 2w)
• [1979] The Territory Construed as the Map: in search of radical design innovations in the representation of human activities and their relationships (95k, 9w)
• [1977] Complexity: its constraints on social innovation (3k, 17w)
• [1976] Limits to Human Potential (111k)
• [1974] Conceptual Distortions from Negative Descriptors: non-governmental vs. anti-governmental (21k)
• [1974] Conceptual Gaps And Confused Distinctions: Possible ambiguities in the translation of interrelated concepts between sectors, jargons or languages (18k)
• [1971] From Apartheid to Schizophrenia: the logic of depersonalized separate development (66k, 3w)
• [1969] Organizational Apartheid: Who needs whom in the Second United Nations Development Decade ? (65k, 1w)

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