@johnrobb 2/ Meanwhile, a mature, evolutionary, integral synthesis embracing the natural *and* manufactured narratives distinctive, respectively, to meatspace *and* cyberspace alike, owes its transcendent character precisely to its fundamentally reconciliatory promise and power.
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Copy of quote tweet: Absurd. You would think natural reality is no more than a Spectacle to some. We are Earth, for crying out loud. The transition from experiencing tech as a seamless complement to, and not a separate substitute for, concrete reality, Beauty evolving as us! Quote Tweet
@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?