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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 20 Jul 2023

@AimeTim @UniteThePoor 5/ Surprised? Good. Adorno: “Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness & mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. This is what is radically evil.” Cayley: "Surprise is the structure of messianic experience."

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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Eirik @Eirikvi, Jul17, quoting Eliot wording Recovered pictured passage; not a claim to the full source. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1682081142714011650 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. ‘Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only / The wind will listen.’

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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Qur'an30:53 and34:34 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: And you are not / And we never sent Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Jul 17 2023 "And you are not the guide of the blind out of their error; you cannot make anyone hear but those who believe in our signs and have submitted." - 30:53 Quran. "And we never sent a warner to a community but its affluent members say, ‘We reject what you were sent with.’ ” Q 34:34.

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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Barber and Heschel in two posts; Hallaj quotation card Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 5 The poor / 6/12 Neither / Poor People's Campaign / light of thy being Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Two-tweet excerpt from the thread, here: 5/ “The poor are all those who have to endure acts of violence and acts of injustice without being able to defend themselves.”@RevDrBarber. “Who shall prevent the epidemic of injustice that no Court of Justice is capable of stopping?”#AbrahamJoshuaHeschel@UniteThePoor1 @nick_routledge 6/12 #AbrahamJoshuaHeschel: “Neither words of persuasion nor threats of castigation will have any effect. Something greater than prophetic words, namely, an eschatological event, will be necessary to silence the arrogance of man.”@UniteThePoor Painted image of the head of Jesus crucified with calligrapy: Poor People's Campaign The light of thy being has dawned upon the horizon of my being and there will be no sunset. Monsour Hallaj The Martyr of Islam

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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Agamben Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 4 Our present modernity Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1682081142714011650 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. "This is how one pictures the Angel of History. His face is turned to the past. A storm is blowing from Paradise. It has got caught in his wings with such violence the angel can no longer close them. This storm is what we call progress." ~ Walter Benjamin on Klee's Angelus Novus Though his primary theological referent was Jewish messianism, Christian eschatology provided Benjamin a core theo-political motif—the anti-Christ. Not mythology but the System itself—a total machine of illusion, sacrifice and ruin—enthroned as progress, crowning itself destiny. "That things 'just go on' is the catastrophe."    ~ Walter Benjamin Benjamin also foresaw the ‘messianic eclipse’ bound within such catastrophic permanency ending in the game-ending 'blast' of a "tempieternal explosion” (Panikkar); a sudden, 'messianic arrest' yoking the architecture of redemptive time to everyday, temporal, political reality. “The crises become “states of permanent exception and emergency,” and a permanent state of exception is, of course, no longer exceptional. Crisis is "our normal state", crisis that never resolves, “no crisis at all”. Why? Because resolving it would end the game. 4/ Our present modernity can be characterized by its endless deferral of judgment, “a secularized parody of the Church’s incessant deferral of the last judgment” (Agamben), an institution that can only preserve its own existence by endlessly postponing the judgment it announces.

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