@nils_gilman Goes both ways. Long before the Web, planetary Sages anticipated the advent of a cyberspace-actualized dimension of meaningfulness, constituting a 'quintessentially political' surprise positively addressing such base shenanigans at a totalizing, substrative, ontological level.
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Copy of tweet: Nick Routledge 2/ Only when the fat lady sings, and not a moment before, will a bifurcation point, long anticipated as a seismic evolutionary threshold and surge, advance a sunburst of revelation transcending the mystery of history. "Teilhard’s noosphere is alive and well.” – Jean Houston
@jamespoulos What if the dark, mercenary genius of algorithmically-supercharged, exploitative media-ecology's claim upon the private soul is ultimately checked only in recognizing its larger, evolutionary role delivering us to a sunburst of revelation overturning the tables of history itself?
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Copy of tweet: Nick_routledge and "...the backstage fusion between human and machine authority....modes of governance normalised by digital platforms...algorithmic level of governance as an increasingly key field of political struggle...digital post-democracy...‘swarm governance’..." 5:04 AM · Dec 2, 2022 from Cottage Grove, OR