RT @nick_routledge: @mchlmorelli @trippfuller @HomebrewedXnty 1/2 It's all One Media Picture, of course, along with a Unitive Ecology defined, of late, by a radically-accelerated harvest of consequence, consciousness and disclosure characterizing a Media Event of epochal proportions as one planetary paradigm crashes and another replaces it.
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What if the dark, mercenary genius of algo-supercharged, exploitative media-ecology's claim upon the private soul is ultimately checked only in recognizing its larger, evolutionary role delivering us to a sunburst of revelation overturning the tables of history itself? Military-grade cyberweaponry and the ubiquity of algo-supercharged repression? "Impacts have been particularly keenly felt by those advocating on behalf of minority communities or disseminating information perceived as critical of government." An algo-supercharged vortex of mimetic contagion and a momentum the prophets universally anticipated would deliver us to the very threshold of suicidal, planetary cataclysm. Hobbes’ ‘war of all against all plus nukes. What next? Eschatologically speaking, the web era initiated the arrival of an algo-supercharged parsing mechanism which, ultimately, can only be understood apocalyptically, i.e., from a point of view revealing a meaning different from its literal sense.
@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.