@medialens McLuhan: "World War III will be a guerilla information war, with no division between civilian and military participation." Time, perhaps, for the mimetic escalation of a Media Event addressing the triumphalist, weaponized trivialization of the planetary attention span, for good.
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet here: Couple of thoughts. First, “Those who commit the murders write the reports.” - Ida Bae Wells. As with so much else, supremacist denial mimetically and automatically defines the content, structure and direction of the dominant attention span, religious emphasis included. Quote Daniel Pinchbeck. "In our society, the media functions as a collective nervous system or immune-response task force, inoculating the social body against any new pattern or incoming information that might threaten conventional values and biases." Why, what and where instead, then?
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Copy of tweet here: 5/ Surprised? Good. Adorno: “Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness & mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. This is what is radically evil.” Cayley: "Surprise is the structure of messianic experience."
@oldbooksguy I'm reminded of Don DeLillo: "News is the last addiction before - what?" A media event rescuing our future from the power of propaganda? The 'deus ex machina' of God's coming and arrival?
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge; John 12:31 quotation Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: end So / judgment of world / end Owned Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of Tweet: Nick_routledge Nick_routledge and end/ So, how is transcendent intervention at the planetary level revealed? Through the usual channels? Don't be silly. Here, in the radical upheaval of concrete political reality, presenting as a global movement to end poverty, injustice and ecocide, led by the poor. Including image of tweet: Nick_routledge The judgment of the world is now. The ruler of this world will be cast out now. John 12:31 9:37 PM · Feb 23, 2022 from Eugene, OR Quote tweet: Nick_routledge end/ 'Owned' by the substrative deception of an enslaving epistemology fixed into furrows of death? More than likely, yes. What form a planetary circuit breaker, then? World liberation, as disruption and migration of planetary attention span? This time, a renewing network swarm.
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