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@antoniogm 1/ N.O. Brown, succinct on ‘apocalypsis’, the moment of vision and decision: “To see through this show; to see the invisible reality; to put an end to politics. The revolution, the revelation, the apocalypse, is vision; which pronounces a last judgment; and brings about the end.”

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 24 Oct 2021

@BaldHeadQueen @stewartdantec 2/ “The parables having been spoken among us, there is no need for another summons to final assize. A Last Judgement has already passed upon us and our world. A Last Judgement has already passed upon our way of seeing and knowing the world, on our way of being in the world.”

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Quoted by@MarlonMillner @UniteThePoor 1/ I seem to recall it's from Dale Pendell's 'Walking with Nobby: Conversations with Norman O. Brown.' Frankly, given his staggeringly vast cultural, disciplinary and thematic embrace, Brown resists capsule descriptions. 'Love's Body,' likely his best known, if mysterious work.Quoted by6/ The original meaning of ‘apocalypsis’? Not 'cataclysm', but 'unveiling'. Our prophets, of course, have always anticipated this eschatological turn - planetary consciousness coalescing suddenly in a sunburst of revelation overturning the tables of temporality, once and for all.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @TaraAnnThieke The epistemological basis of the Extinction Tyranny, isn't it? A mode of perception and action fundamentally unhinged from concrete reality. No wonder the prophets speak of 'apocalypsis' as a totalizing flip-flop in experience of coherence, authority, significance and legitimacy.Quoted by@TaraAnnThieke The epistemological basis of the Extinction Tyranny, isn't it? A mode of perception and action fundamentally unhinged from concrete reality. No wonder the prophets speak of 'apocalypsis' as a totalizing flip-flop in experience of coherence, authority, significance and legitimacy.