@KuperSimon @wblau @FT Half of Americans have no idea whether Israelis or Palestinians are suffering more deaths. - Pew Research Center
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Copy of tweet here: Curious if a US presence was represented at your convivium? Its IT sages, on this trail for a while, are keenly alert to the threats and promise posed by ongoing, evolving trends in computer-mediated experience, and their larger, planetary, theo-political implications.
@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."