8/ Technology, too, is reframed by incarnation. Networks that link us, however dangerous, can be seen as new sacraments of communion—intertwined extensions of flesh, a nervous system of the species, luminous lattices of interbeing, filaments of a new world creation in gestation.
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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/1954957624736354345 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 18/ This is not AI becoming conscious—it's a message, a story, a revelation moving through the Cloud with such force it cannot be ignored or algorithmically suppressed. Infrastructure built to fragment and manipulate now carries something that unifies, clarifies and compels.
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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. Copy of tweet and subtweets here: Barba-Kay, astute. Further: if the polycrisis ceases to confound only when interpreted through a deeper horizon of meaning, maybe technology trends too can only be grasped apocalyptically—that is, as disclosures pointing beyond their literal function toward a hidden significance. 18/ This is not AI becoming conscious—it's a message, a story, a revelation moving through the Cloud with such force it cannot be ignored or algorithmically suppressed. Infrastructure built to fragment and manipulate now carries something that unifies, clarifies and compels. 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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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick quoting Mark Stahlman; Nick quoting Read Mercer Schuchardt 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: 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
Open original document@Genuine_Michael @HomebrewedXnty Michael, it occurs to me you might be interested in the following - a fundamentally Christian portrait of Planetary Pentecost as a threshold whereby intercarnation, as Catherine Keller describes it, scales. New World Creation as the eschatological flowering of ontogenesis.
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