RT @nick_routledge: @Plough @frjoshTX 'The God to save us, Mumford writes, “will not descend from the machine: he will rise up again in the human soul.”' Not quite correct, there, perhaps. Schuchardt: "Though he never coined the phrase, 'the medium is the messiah' may have been McLuhan’s ultimate perceptual insight."
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet here: @antoniogm and @kevin2kelly 3/ A way forward? The unicity of both realms as One conjoined reality? An experiential singularity. Teilhard de Chardin, for example, anticipated a radical, evolutionary, noospheric-enabled evocation of a higher sanity, in which we discover our shared soul. Cyberspace, holy, too. Quote tweet: Thank you. And you’ll know @kevin2kelly, of course: “The apparent veil between the organic and the manufactured has crumpled to reveal that the two really are, and have always been, of one being. What should we call the common soul?”
@TaraAnnThieke I concur, Tara. And what if maddening media's means and ends simultaneously define their essential, constitutive function advancing us toward an appropriate plot device, the 'Deus ex machina' of, a redemptive, truly planetary Media Event; a propitious, perfect, divine turn?
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Copy of tweet thread here: ‘Thus we Christians today are placed in the most difficult of all situations. We have to repudiate both the spirit of the age and the means that it employs. If we do not, if we yield even a fraction to those forces, we will betray Jesus Christ.’ —Jacques Ellul, What I Believe Our call, in practice, is to confront the simultaneity of the enormous force of the Zeitgeist and its primary, expressive medium. I wonder what Ellul, so presciently alert to the transcendent significance of wedded spiritual and media environments, would have made of the Web Era.
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Copy of tweet thread here: end/ With world-enslavement massively consolidated by an epochal analog-to-digital shift capturing modern experience itself, of course. Which does rather beg the question of its larger, evolutionary significance, doesn't it? What, ultimately, does 'The Web' represent? 1/2 Simultaneously, paralleling its colossal impetus, cloud imperialism's consolidation within and dependence upon an all-aggregating machine-abstraction, reveals the entire ontological edifice as, correspondingly, vastly more ephemeral and exposed than its engineers conceive. Well-noted, Paul. Evil, it is. And whereas it bears noting that the *monetization* of our attention span is, at this juncture, barely distinguishable from its *weaponization*, the 'powers of the air' have, correspondingly, never before represented such a choice, ready target.