@pauljpastor @lukeburgis A thoroughly enchanting excerpt! Originally, 'Wired' magazine claimed Marshall McLuhan as their patron saint. Beyond McLuhan, though, who is there? Well, Jesus. Though try finding the text cracking the Kingdom hermaneutics code. I haven't found it yet and I've been asking around.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Michael Morelli @mchlmorelli, Aug 30 Recovered pictured passage; not a claim to the full source. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1867680174348939414 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Just sent a DM
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Michael anywhere Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @mchlmorelli Michael, anywhere I can get a copy of your contribution?
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Thank ye Feedback Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1867680174348939414 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @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. t.co/HJb64n0pkG t.co/riLvWUpzEn
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Michael Heim Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: end And the machina Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @mchlmorelli @trippfuller @HomebrewedXnty 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.’ t.co/OfqrV6czyc
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Read Mercer Schuchardt and McLuhan Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Though he never / 5 McLuhan Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1867680174348939414 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Tweet thread: Are you living in an imitation, anon? Ellul, Ong and McLuhan, fundamentally Christian media ecologists all, would suggest our reconciliation with truth an eschatological matter. Quote tweet: Escaping the Pseudo-Event? We turn toward a reality wholly penetrated by Truth Alive; the native, immediate, unmediated neighborly. S. Zohar: “The messianic world will be a world without images in which no more comparison will be possible between an image and what it represents. This distinction being made, Ellul does not think that all answers to the question are equally legitimate. He believes that the one Truth worthy of the title is the God who created the world, led the Israelites out of Egypt, became incarnate in Jesus Christ, and will bring the world to its final consummation. Before the Fall, according to Ellul, Truth wholly penetrated reality; after the Fall, we think we can arrogate reality to ourselves, but are cruelly deceived. Between the Fall and the final consummation, only in the incarnation of Jesus Christ has truth completely penetrated reality (Ellul 1981: 89–92, 280 [ET Ellul 1985c: 79–82, 253]). ‘Truth, Reality and the Ten Commandments: Not for Theology Alone’, Virginia W. Landgraf, in ‘Jacques Ellul and the Technological Society in the 21st Century’, Springer, 2013. Tweet thread: Jesus provided us with no old or new 'concept' of the kingdom of God at all. He brought God's kingdom himself. “Though he never coined the phrase, 'the medium is the messiah' may have been McLuhan’s ultimate perceptual insight. The 'medium is the message' may have been merely its conceptual phrasing.” - Read Mercer Schuchardt, The Reformation as Media Event, Second Nature Quote tweet: 5/ McLuhan: "In Jesus, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same...it is only at the level of a lived Christianity that the medium really is the message." "…the kingdom is a social reality at a transcendental level. Hence, it cannot be communicated except by means of a communitarian and fraternal form-of-life." #IvanIllich @unitethepoor #poorpeoplescampaign
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