@newhumanitarian @Tammamo The challenge, in other words, is civilizational, a disease of the world-soul as much as structural and institutional powers. Perhaps consideration of modern political theology as it relates to a phase shift of total planetary political change may prove timely and illuminating?
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Jared Yates Sexton Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1894757165879193740 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Jared Yates Sexton History works in these cycle. The New Deal turned to Neoliberalism. Now we’re stuck in this moment where even imagining a future is nearly impossible. Something new, something different, something better and fairer has to struggle into existence. The alternative is deadly. 8:48 AM · Jun 14, 2022 8 31 252 1 Relevant
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1536777742393323520 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @JYSexton On the nose, as usual. Could we also allow that at a deeper level, our political predicament is but a symptom of the very same substrative epistemological error constraining our field of perception and liberating activity, the possibility, promise and potential of a new paradigm?
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1533474077062463488 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @johnrobb Half-assed, any evolutionary perspective which eschews the function of political theology in 'escaping the overwhelming ideological force of claims about the inevitability of 'the catastrophic present' as professional historians @nils_gilman and @moshik_temkin describe it, below. t.co/vJ7xXXcsNs
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick on Northcott, Girard, Agamben, Žižek and Moltmann Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet and quote tweet here: Half-assed, any evolutionary perspective which eschews the function of political theology in 'escaping the overwhelming ideological force of claims about the inevitability of 'the catastrophic present' as professional historians @nils_gilman and @moshik_temkin describe it, below. Image: Brueggemann: "The claim of dominant imagination, in both ancient Israel and in contemporary US ‘democratic capitalism,’ is a totalizing claim that does not permit any reality or any claim outside of its regime and certainly does not welcome any rival claim.." Quote tweet: Given the Clauswitzian escalation in Northcott’s ‘crescendo toward paroxysm’, I’m curious if Michael or others in the Girard, Agamben, Žižek theo-political orbit are hip to Moltmann’s eschatology and further, the political theology of contemporary Islamic messianism? @jbralston
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@ncolloff The spur is that the metastasizing aggregate of a planetary Extinction Tyranny has finally secured its flag. As Benjamin noted in 1940, this 'storm' isn't happenstance as much as an ontic inevitability constitutive to the phenomenon of techno-modernity itself. What instead, then?
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Copy of tweet here: Your question invites an answer. The Church isn't alone. The stark truth, in materialist terms, is that everyone, everywhere, has been outgunned by a global control-complex poised to kill us all. The unifying articulation of a coherent, consolidated, planetary response, then? 3/ This, not some form of cheap universalism, rather a planetary reckoning with a Wholeness transcending supremacist epistemologies and their full-spectrum dominance over the moral and ontological imagination and “the infrastructure of all religions and all cultures.” (Girard) 1/ We're certainly ripe for the sudden, planetary irruption of a positive anthropology proving timely, coherent, comprehensible, accessible, democratically and universally 'catchy’, and which functionally addresses the totality of human and earthly needs.