@Naifalbidh No world culture can save itself from the global tyranny of peak modernism, alone. Correspondingly, messianic eschatology, the unifying articulation of planetary prophetology and the realized intervention it positively represents, arrives at an all-inclusive, planetary level.
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Messiah. Image and Calligraphy. Acrylic inks on paper. #nofilter
@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 quoting Walter Brueggemann Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1293988833655062528 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 5/ 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...”
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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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