@leashless @bruces And little did they know. The Cloud was always going to prove central to the Pseudo-Event's surveillance-encounter with Truth Alive or, as Ellul might define it, 'the messianic technique' of the 'machina' of a 'deus ex' obviating a totalizing existential apostasy.
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Copy of tweet here: 1/2 Simultaneously, paralleling its colossal impetus, cloud imperialism's consolidation within and dependence upon an all-aggregating machine-abstraction, reveals the entire ontological edifice as, correspondingly, vastly more ephemeral and exposed than its engineers conceive. McLuhan was very fond of the phrase, "the Prince of this world, Satan, is a very great electrical engineer." And tailor to Emperors, too. The cyberspatial conglomeration of evil? A cosmic design feature, not a flaw, making it addressable, ultimately, in one fell swoop. 1 John 3:8 Technology is too often used as a stealth vector (often by private actors who control the tech) to enact, embody, or constitute quintessentially “political” matters — that is, matters concerning the allocation & legitimation of power & authority. AI puts this pattern on steroids Goes both ways. Long before the Web, planetary Sages anticipated…
3/ The prophets insist: history is not a blind alley. Beneath its surface runs a hidden trajectory—not toward despair, but disclosure. A truth so stark that no evasion remains. The collapse of illusion under the weight of the Real. A script must end.
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Copy of tweet here: The epistemological basis of the Extinction Tyranny, isn't it? A mode of perception and action fundamentally unhinged from concrete reality. No wonder the prophets speak of 'apocalypsis' as a totalizing flip-flop in experience of coherence, authority, significance and legitimacy. end/ "Overthrow the importance principle; turn it upside down. Put down the mighty from their seats and exalt them of low degree. Every throne a toilet seat and every toilet seat a throne." - N.O. Brown. Love's Body, University of California Press, 1966. world3.scribble.com/world3/meme1/space2/frstlst.html 1/ N.O. Brown, succinct on ‘apocalypsis’, the moment of vision and decision: “To see through this show; to see the invisible reality; to put an end to politics. The revolution, the revelation, the apocalypse, is vision; which pronounces a last judgment; and brings about the end.”