end/ Adorno: "Knowledge has no light but that shed on the world by redemption." The Cloud Event offers no options. It exposes a verdict already written in reality's fabric. In that seeing, we are no longer deciding but disclosed. The harvest has come. What we are stands revealed.
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Copy of tweet, image and quote tweet here: Planetary Prophetology 101, isn’t it? Beyond the mystery, the meaning destined to be disclosed. The advance of a dark corruption simultaneously conjoined with humanity's equally mysterious vocation to betterment until, that is, 'apocalypsis', our moment of vision and decision. Image of tweet thread here: Quote tweet: end/ And the 'machina' of the 'deus ex' or, as Ellul might define it, 'the messianic technique' obviating a totalizing existential apostasy? ‘Hypertext,’ noted Michael Heim in 'The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality’ (1995), 'refers to the existence of a hidden, unnoticed dimension.’
@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…