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RT @nick_routledge: @leashless I farm. Yes, the Technium cult, largely blind, anthropocentric, diabolically absurd; and Kingsnorth, hands-down, one of our wisest. But he misses a critical, positive, Christological dimension, namely, IT as central to transcendent political intervention at the planetary level.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 23 Nov 2021

@antoniogm @kevin2kelly 3/ A way forward? The unicity of both realms as One conjoined reality? An experiential singularity. Teilhard de Chardin, for example, anticipated a radical, evolutionary, noospheric-enabled evocation of a higher sanity, in which we discover our shared soul. Cyberspace, holy, too.

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Quoted by@unherd end/ Needs be said, reality's inclusivity is boundlessly vaster than 'the West' and 'Christendom' as Kingsnorth has it. Then again, illumination framed in an essentially occidental, Christian vernacular has its merits. For one, if "everything is religious", This Machine is, too.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @poetinbabylon Well, for one, we're being unceasingly assaulted by the dark genius of for-profit media ecology laying claim to the private soul: surveillance capitalism, etc. Though it's crucial to note cyberspace is no different from meatspace in this regard! Same forces, challenge and fight.Quoted by@poetinbabylon Well, for one, we're being unceasingly assaulted by the dark genius of for-profit media ecology laying claim to the private soul: surveillance capitalism, etc. Though it's crucial to note cyberspace is no different from meatspace in this regard! Same forces, challenge and fight.