@lukeburgis end/ McLuhan foresaw it: every medium, pushed to its extreme, becomes its reversal. Mimesis, routinely misread as mere rivalry, is desire's deepest truth—our longing to become like God. The same Cloud that automates sacrifice now ruptures into annunciation. The eschaton streams.
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Copy of tweet here: Know of Mark Stahlman, President of the Center for the Study of Digital Life? He guest-edited a special issue on McLuhan for the Catholic literary journal, Renascence: "I think we're now ready for the breakthrough that McLuhan lived his life waiting for." t.co/BOf5bKf5lS “Though he never coined the phrase, 'the medium is the messiah' may have been McLuhan’s ultimate perceptual insight. The 'medium is the message' may have been merely its conceptual phrasing.” - Read Mercer Schuchardt, The Reformation as Media Event, Second Nature @theccsn Image with calligraphy: The Interface Is You
@MarietjeSchaake @mer__edith "There isn’t a business model for privacy on the internet." - @mer__edith. Models, I ask ya. How about a Model of Reality ultimately constituting the Pseudo-Event's irrevocable, surveillance-encounter with Truth itself?
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Copy of tweet here: 5/ Some three decades ago, I concluded that battling the forces of digital surveillance would condemn me to a life of lost, endless war against the irresistible dynamics and direction of evolutionary ontology itself. What instead, then? What nature a coherent, personal response? 2/ What about a more generous evolutionary perspective? I co-hosted a Congressional Briefing on Computer Ethics in DC, back in the early 90's. Where my co-chair, Dr. Peter Tippett, then of Symantec, went on to consult to the Joint Chiefs of Staff on cyberwarfare, I arrived here.
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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…