RT @nick_routledge: @Gregoresate @Joshowieblount @johnrobb Hypostasis? Second-tier fabulism, more like it, even as the frenetic paroxysm of this 'mimetic crisis' (Girard) proves central to delivering us to a sunburst of revelation overturning the tables of history itself. 'The final crisis' is, yes, a narrative crisis.
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Copy of tweet: end/ So, an algorithmically-supercharged vortex of mimetic contagion and, all told, a momentum the prophets universally anticipated would inevitably deliver us to the very threshold of suicidal, planetary cataclysm. Hobbes' 'war of all against all', plus nukes. What next, then?
@johnrobb 1/ Yup. And, viewed in larger, evolutionary terms, this ostensibly dire progression follows a predictable, apocalyptic logic. Not apocalyptic in the sense in which the word is used colloquially to refer to catastrophes, but in the word’s original sense of revelation or unveiling.
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