Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@johnrobb Don DeLillo: "News is the last addiction before - what?" @x

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.
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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.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @riyeff We? Depends who you reckon with. A vast field of study has long been alert to the structure of media ecology (of late, generative AI) changing us even more than its content. Ellul, Ong and McLuhan would, of course, suggest our reconciliation with truth an eschatological matter.Quoted by@riyeff We? Depends who you reckon with. A vast field of study has long been alert to the structure of media ecology (of late, generative AI) changing us even more than its content. Ellul, Ong and McLuhan would, of course, suggest our reconciliation with truth an eschatological matter.