RT @nick_routledge: @nils_gilman Or, in a Bannonesque vernacular, 'lose the planetary narrative, lose the planetary war.' Call it a 'Media Event' if you must, the second-tier fabulism of techo-modernity stumbling blindly into the sunburst of revelation of a 'plot device' overturning the tables of history itself.
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Copy of tweet here: 1/ Yes, even as our tendency to conflate the network's narrative edgeline with 'The State of the World’, amounts to a category fallacy of cosmic proportions - as if the totality of planetary history and reality amounts to a downstream, behind-the-times, lesser subset, somewhere. David, hi. Surprised to stumble upon a fundamentally secular community of interest and vernacular addressing "the political and temporal dynamism of eschatology" as it relates to "the possibility of a messianic Politics to Come." Nils' "radical philosophical event" comes to mind. 5/ In eschatological terms, an extinction tyranny of materialist and religious fetishism urges a summons beyond all cultural or religious containment. Time, then, for a fresh start transcending the co- evolutionary limits of the world's secular and religious imaginaries.
@pauljpastor 1/ So true. That said, I wonder, if however, the decisive role of information technology shaping the direction, form and character of mimesis at the planetary level can ultimately be understood, in Adorno's terms, "only in the light shed on the world by redemption.” For one...
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Copy of tweet here: 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? 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. Quote tweet: 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.