RT @nick_routledge: @SherPoint Yes, the modern Spectacle makes of most of us T.S. Eliot's 'Hollow Men.' Wallace Stevens, of course, proposed an adieu to almost all our imprisoning institutions and epistemologies: Exit the mental moonlight, exit lex, Rex and principium, exit the whole Shebang, Exeunt omnes...
@Sophiologist_ A chorus of modern voices (Debord, McLuhan, et al.) go further, echoing planetary prophetology's epochal challenge to a form of totalizing, wall-to-wall propaganda (Ginsberg's "official version of history and reality") effectively "eclipsing the messianic experience". (Agamben)
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Copy of tweet here: Exactly. Bly's 'wounds of abstraction' characterizing an all-encompassing pathology of consciousness; the totalizing hegemony this Spectacle of reification invisibly maintains; and homecoming to concrete reality as the salvational pivot returning us, finally, to freedom's ground. Quote 3/ We use the terms 'truth of the neighborly' or 'realocalization' to describe this emphatic, planetary shift in experiential locus, away from mediated Spectacle toward direct, proximate participation in a dynamic mutualism far transcending human limitations, genius and powers.