@Plough What next, then? If our salvation is already here, why isn't it evenly distributed? Berkman: "There’s more to technology than we perceive on the surface, good and bad. There’s more to human beings too. And it's only when we understand the second that we can comprehend the first."
Image description
Original X alt text
Copy of tweet, image and quote tweet here:
Extended description
Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting J. Poulos Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Many sides Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1877351198237319261 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @johnrobb Many sides: one disease. J. Poulos: “Who has the fullness of soul in them, and the authority this vitality confers, to triumph over the computed and computing world in its worldliness, to redeem it and turn it back toward service to the given life of the world and we the living?” t.co/88bdHOYfV4 t.co/Ks9iJs3aMr
Open original documentExtended description
Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Girard Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: As in cyberspace / 1 Nothing new / end So Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copies of three tweets: As in cyberspace, so below. As in meatspace, so above. On all sides, the murderous dismissal of the Other, experienced and promoted as coherent and socially beneficial, powerfully defines the anthropology of modernity. A hall of mirrors. The war of all against all. 1/ Near enough: – 1/ Nothing new under the sun, as they say. Not 'moral' or 'empathetic' as much as powerfully demonstrating the 'mimetic, unconscious, automatic and universal' mechanism sustaining "the essential complicity between violence and human culture." (Girard) end/ So, an algorithmically-supercharged vortex of mimetic contagion and, all told, a momentum the prophets universally anticipated would inevitably deliver us to the very threshold of suicidal, planetary cataclysm. Hobbes' 'war of all against all', plus nukes. What next, then?
Open original documentExtended description
Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Adorno Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: So true Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @pauljpastor 1/ So true. That said, I wonder, if however, the decisive role of information technology shaping the direction, form and character of mimesis at the planetary level can ultimately be understood, in Adorno's terms, "only in the light shed on the world by redemption.” For one... t.co/KBDh26LTD5
Open original document@DoubleDownNews Pete Berkman: "When the environment is invisible, the path of least resistance is determined by the medium itself. Our plans plan us. In order to recover human agency over technique, the invisible environment has to be made visible. “Apocalypse,” McLuhan says, “is our salvation.”
Image description
Original X alt text
Copy of tweet here: @nick_routledge Exactly. The functional totalitarianism of an interlocking, global, techno-industrial control-complex serving the weaponized exceptionalism of elite structures of power profitably and militantly vested in a form of Final Solution to unmanageable social tensions and inequalities. @nick_routledge · Nov 9, 2023 Replying to @nick_routledge and @washingtonpost 2/ It's now endemic, of course, the devastating obscenity of a global militarist-media complex wedded through pen and sword to a universalized form of psychotic exceptionalism and its diabolical consecration of a terror war endlessly targeting internal scapegoat and foreign foe. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? “Ultimately there is only one factor upon which the shape of history depends: the moral conduct of the nations." - Abraham Joshua Heschel