@mchlmorelli Thank ye. Feedback? I reckon Abrahamic media ecologists better placed than most to bear witness to Marcuse's 'Great Refusal' ontologizing in the Pseudo-Event's surveillance-encounter with the Revealing Dimension of a both-ways 'vision machine' wholly suffused by His Truth Alive.
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Copy of tweet here: 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. McLuhan was very fond of the phrase, "the Prince of this world, Satan, is a very great electrical engineer." And tailor to Emperors, too. The cyberspatial conglomeration of evil? A cosmic design feature, not a flaw, making it addressable, ultimately, in one fell swoop. 1 John 3:8 Technology is too often used as a stealth vector (often by private actors who control the tech) to enact, embody, or constitute quintessentially “political” matters — that is, matters concerning the allocation & legitimation of power & authority. AI puts this pattern on steroids Goes both ways. Long before the Web, planetary Sages anticipated...
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Copy of tweet here: @nick_routledge @mchlmorelli and 2 others end/ And the 'machina' of the 'deus ex' or, as Ellul might define it, 'the messianic technique' obviating a totalizing existential apostasy? ‘Hypertext,’ noted Michael Heim in 'The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality’ (1995), 'refers to the existence of a hidden, unnoticed dimension.’
@jamespoulos @mgurri: “That was me at the global media analysis section of CIA... And I was not alone. A group of us were obsessed with the same drama... We all asked the same question: Why? What does information technology have to do with politics?" #osint #gonefishing #layingthesmackdown