2/ The Cloud is not neutral. It is the infrastructure through which worldly power cloaks itself in metaphysical authority. Who is seen, who is shadowbanned. Which narratives gain traction, which disappear. The suffering counting as 'real,' and what gets rendered as noise.
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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: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 3/ I don't wish to sound like a polemical ass, but the structures of consciousness and power dictating the defining story about the nature of reality 'own' the global attention span into the bargain. One Media Ecology, monetized and weaponized, in toto. How do we deal with this?
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick, two nested bodies 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 here: "Compounded by the for-profit seizure of personal consciousness which increasingly defines social reality in our time...how the dark genius of for-profit media ecology has laid claim to the private soul." Quote Nick Routledge · Gotcha. Murdoch Inc., the attention span, and me.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick citing Pew Research Center Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1771319423728795741 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @KuperSimon @wblau @FT Half of Americans have no idea whether Israelis or Palestinians are suffering more deaths. - Pew Research Center t.co/ynLhvg0ZNF
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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/1678417330877890562 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @LondonFfP @Bin_Bayyah Curious if a US presence was represented at your convivium? Its IT sages, on this trail for a while, are keenly alert to the threats and promise posed by ongoing, evolving trends in computer-mediated experience, and their larger, planetary, theo-political implications. t.co/OsS4cDy0EH
Open original document@CTmagazine @jeff_bilbro 3/ Most, meanwhile, are unaware that McLuhan was a fundamentally Abrahamic media ecologist, or that 'Kingdom hermaneutics' and its constitutive function advancing consciousness toward the unitive medium-and-message of a planetary Media Event, was actually his ultimate concern.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick quoting Pete Berkman quoting McLuhan Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1877018495730253900 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @DoubleDownNews Pete Berkman: "When the environment is invisible, the path of least resistance is determined by the medium itself. Our plans plan us. In order to recover human agency over technique, the invisible environment has to be made visible. “Apocalypse,” McLuhan says, “is our salvation.” t.co/TrhjMJwPRp
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick, totalitarianism, endemic militarism and Heschel quotation 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 here: Exactly. The functional totalitarianism of an interlocking, global, techno-industrial control-complex serving the weaponized exceptionalism of elite structures of power profitably and militantly vested in a form of Final Solution to unmanageable social tensions and inequalities. 2/ It's now endemic, of course, the devastating obscenity of a global militarist-media complex wedded through pen and sword to a universalized form of psychotic exceptionalism and its diabolical consecration of a terror war endlessly targeting internal scapegoat and foreign foe. Copy of tweet: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? “Ultimately there is only one factor upon which the shape of history depends: the moral conduct of the nations." - Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick quoting McLuhan Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1877001347779698726 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @johnrobb 2/ Final Computing Solutions. "World War III will be a guerilla information war, with no division between civilian and military participation." McLuhan in a 2017 Atlantic Council report on radically enhanced capabilities of AI-driven computational-propaganda for mind manipulation t.co/Av13EyDav5
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