RT @nick_routledge: @Plough @suzania @MadocCairns @koppsch_a If climate chaos loses its terror and becomes a liberating hope only once its interpretation is fully Christianized, perhaps technology trends can also only be fully understood apocalyptically, that is, from a point of view revealing a meaning different from their literal sense?
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet appearing here: @nick_routledge and @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. Quote tweet: 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.
@RyanHaecker end/ As for the here and now, the transition from experiencing cyberspace as a seamless complement to, and not a separate substitute for concrete reality, similarly stands the test. Presence is eternity radiantly alive. This stuff, here, now, is holy, too.
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet: end/ Which brings us to the dirt under the fingernails of these, my transmitting fingers, uniting us all, root and branch, flesh and blood, off-screen and on-screen, in the dynamic interplay of a single helix of Presence. It is time, friends. "Eternity utters a day." - Heschel Image: Copy of tweet: Elsewhere..."Think of this as a revolution, not of guns, but of consciousness, which will be won by seizing the key myths, archetypes, eschatologies, and ecstasies so that life won't seem worth living unless one is on the transforming energy's side." #GarySynder Quote tweet: 4/ Our present modernity can be characterized by its endless deferral of judgment, “a secularized parody of the Church’s incessant deferral of the last judgment” (Agamben), an institution that can only preserve its own existence by endlessly postponing the judgment it announces.