@EuroConOfficial @EsmeLKPartridge 4/ I believe it was Kevin Kelly who once suggested the only reason information technology is interesting is that it forces us to reconsider everything we've taken as given. Why are we all here, for one? Billions of us? Is the whorl where our finger taps end or the fix begins?
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: If climate chaos Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @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? t.co/yOirl4XQBt
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: end Needs be said Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @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. t.co/SK7YaA8N2q
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: I farm Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @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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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: end As for Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @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. t.co/450Lrbtt1p
Open original document@Eirikvi @EsmeLKPartridge @aesthetikeit Well, there's conspiracies and then there's conspiracies. Ramakrishna, when asked, "Why evil?" replied, "To thicken the plot." An aesthetics of dramatic tension seems as apt a response as any. That said, thank God for the fix.
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