@PhilipDBunn @Plough When 'Wired' magazine originally claimed McLuhan as their patron saint, they were likely unaware that 'Kingdom hermaneutics' and its constitutive function advancing consciousness toward the unitive medium-and-message of a planetary Media Event, was actually his ultimate concern.
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Copy of tweet 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. 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.’ "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 @theccsn 5/ McLuhan: "In Jesus, there is no distance...
@Plough Wholly captivating, the author's pilgrim words, holiness upon holiness, exquisitely crafted. And, yes, read upon a scroll. Me, I love Books, and the Screen as sacred complement, not secular substitute. Kelly: "Hypertext creates its own possibility space." This place? Holy, too.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting George Landow Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 1 Le subtweet Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @MassimoFaggioli 1/ Le subtweet? The radical, evolutionary iteration of a *spatial* dimension to semiotic radiance "distributed among the strengths of the connections [links!] between the units." (George Landow in 'Hypertext: the convergence of contemporary critical theory and technology', 1992) t.co/NndDM2EGav
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Ian is a Ghost @poetinbabylon; Nick Routledge quoting Michael Heim Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: a review / Is subtweeted / We are ten years Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet thread here: a review I just read in History of Religions says that Kripal maintains the thesis that most historians of religion are "closet mystics," and as a not-so-closeted semi-mystic studying the history of religion I feel subtweeted by this review Is 'subtweeted' a theological term? I suppose it properly should be. "Hypertext," noted Michael Heim, in his 1993 text, 'The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality', "refers to the existence of a hidden or unnoticed dimension." We are ten years away from a theology of hypertext and subtweet (!) — but I think about this often (I return often to modes of narrative theory that
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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: Odd isn't it Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @McLinstitute Odd, isn't it, that hypertext's structural ontology, and the concomitant revolution in expression of consciousness and bounds of possibility space it uniquely allows, remains typically unnoticed. Is such awareness born only from within the possibility-expression-structure itself?
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