@lukeburgis 7/ This makes conversion of conflict in its myriad forms an essential alchemy of incarnation: the Word made flesh not as solitary descent but as radical relationality—God with creation, neighbor with neighbor. The pattern of Christ: kenosis into relation, reality transfigured.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge referring to Debord/McLuhan/Ginsberg/Agamben Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: A chorus Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet here: Dec 18, 2023Replying to @Sophiologist_ A chorus of modern voices (Debord, McLuhan, et al.) go further, echoing planetary prophetology's epochal challenge to a form of totalizing, wall-to-wall propaganda (Ginsberg's "official version of history and reality") effectively "eclipsing the messianic experience". (Agamben) Exactly. Bly's 'wounds of abstraction' characterizing an all-encompassing pathology of consciousness; the totalizing hegemony this Spectacle of reification invisibly maintains; and homecoming to concrete reality as the salvational pivot returning us, finally, to freedom's ground. 3/ We use the terms 'truth of the neighborly' or 'realocalization' to describe this emphatic, planetary shift in experiential locus, away from mediated Spectacle toward direct, proximate participation in a dynamic mutualism far transcending human limitations, genius and powers.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge referring to Bly Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Exactly Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet here: Exactly. Bly's 'wounds of abstraction' characterizing an all-encompassing pathology of consciousness; the totalizing hegemony this Spectacle of reification invisibly maintains; and homecoming to concrete reality as the salvational pivot returning us, finally, to freedom's ground. Quote 3/ We use the terms 'truth of the neighborly' or 'realocalization' to describe this emphatic, planetary shift in experiential locus, away from mediated Spectacle toward direct, proximate participation in a dynamic mutualism far transcending human limitations, genius and powers.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 3/ We use terms Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet here: Exactly. Bly's 'wounds of abstraction' characterizing an all-encompassing pathology of consciousness; the totalizing hegemony this Spectacle of reification invisibly maintains; and homecoming to concrete reality as the salvational pivot returning us, finally, to freedom's ground. Quote 3/ We use the terms 'truth of the neighborly' or 'realocalization' to describe this emphatic, planetary shift in experiential locus, away from mediated Spectacle toward direct, proximate participation in a dynamic mutualism far transcending human limitations, genius and powers.
Open original document@Plough @myleswerntz end/ Yet Christians can advance peace only so far, where "God's new voice in our midst" - meaning more fully conceived in integrative, planetary terms - carries the world beyond the "imaginative vice that keeps us from seeing any politic other than one undergirded by violence."
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Copy of tweet thread here: ‘Thus we Christians today are placed in the most difficult of all situations. We have to repudiate both the spirit of the age and the means that it employs. If we do not, if we yield even a fraction to those forces, we will betray Jesus Christ.’ —Jacques Ellul, What I Believe Our call, in practice, is to confront the simultaneity of the enormous force of the Zeitgeist and its primary, expressive medium. I wonder what Ellul, so presciently alert to the transcendent significance of wedded spiritual and media environments, would have made of the Web Era. 2/ As for Bulgakov’s “victory of good on the path of world-historical tragedy leading to the final separation of light and darkness"? It embraces a harvest of collective consciousness, disclosure and consequence in cyberspace as much as meatspace. We are a unicity, after all.