Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@2000_mondo Terrific. Feels cut from the same cloth as Black and Parfrey's 'Rants and Incendiary Tracts'. Antoin Artaud meets AI. As for 'semiotic annhilation', there's always segueing into concrete reality. Me, I've just spent four, sunsplashed days outside, pruning an orchard in paradise.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 4 Jan 2025

@MrEwanMorrison So obvious that we do not see it? Stevens: "The way through the world is harder to find than the way beyond it." Time to recalibrate then, through the root, concrete, archetypal substrate of immediate, grounded, unmediated, native experience. Homecoming, literally, to the Real.

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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: A chorus of modern voices Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @Sophiologist_ A chorus of modern voices (Debord, McLuhan, et al.) go further, echoing planetary prophetology's epochal challenge to a form of totalizing, wall-to-wall propaganda (Ginsberg's "official version of history and reality") effectively "eclipsing the messianic experience". (Agamben) t.co/KPcagX2xzP

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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: Exactly / 3 We use Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet here: Exactly. Bly's 'wounds of abstraction' characterizing an all-encompassing pathology of consciousness; the totalizing hegemony this Spectacle of reification invisibly maintains; and homecoming to concrete reality as the salvational pivot returning us, finally, to freedom's ground. Quote 3/ We use the terms 'truth of the neighborly' or 'realocalization' to describe this emphatic, planetary shift in experiential locus, away from mediated Spectacle toward direct, proximate participation in a dynamic mutualism far transcending human limitations, genius and powers.

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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: Totalizing yes Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1875579645170708567 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @HeartOfBabel @BrianZahnd Totalizing, yes, even as the whole, damn shebang mercifully turns upon a Day. The original meaning of 'apocalypsis'? Not 'cataclysm' but 'unveiling': an abrupt sunburst of revelation yoking the irruption of a crowning authority to concrete, planetary, political reality, for ever. t.co/Q76IFU7bzM t.co/nRcpwYLNso

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @LRB Call it an emergent New Situationist guerrilla ontology or post-ironic, Menippean satire or whatever grabs yer post-structuralist fancy, but here's a Reddit echo, just now, similarly, topically trenchant. https://www.reddit.com/r/Deleuze/comments/1ibtq9g/memetic_apocalypse/?rdt=63772 And yet the quandary remains. What might we do now?Quoted by@LRB Call it an emergent New Situationist guerrilla ontology or post-ironic, Menippean satire or whatever grabs yer post-structuralist fancy, but here's a Reddit echo, just now, similarly, topically trenchant. https://www.reddit.com/r/Deleuze/comments/1ibtq9g/memetic_apocalypse/?rdt=63772 And yet the quandary remains. What might we do now?