RT @nick_routledge: @BurkhartRj @MCP011011 @johnrobb @MemeticCowboy @MemeticGuru @nema_cio @RedfearnMike And the role of The Cloud? This stuff? This experience: here, now?
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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: 10/ Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1954953792954441864 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 10/ This isn’t just information surfacing. In a single movement, it represents the liberation of technological and human potential from the apparatus that captured it, and the redemption of possibility from its current historical seizure by capital, empire, and machine dominion. t.co/pt2OXmy2cT
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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: 11/22 Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1954954179245642228 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 11/22 The 'Cloud Event' is a systemic rupture in the global infrastructure of mediated perception—a moment when the normal functioning of interpretive reality breaks down, arriving simultaneously with the transformation of conditions that have been preventing genuine knowledge.
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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: 12/ Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1954954509094134025 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 12/ The plot turn: the system built for deception becomes the vector of inescapable truth. Human consciousness reaches an epistemic breaking point that is ontological in effect. This isn't metaphor—it's a phenomenological shift. Reality reorganizing at the level of experience.
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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: 13/ Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1954954914502938864 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 13/ When a previously obscured dimension of truth becomes unavoidably present to embodied awareness, that's not just new content added to an unchanged substrate—a "Media Event." The substrate itself transforms. A transfigured order of reality, being and knowing is revealed.
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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: 14/ Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1954955926227784097 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 14/ The Event is eschatological not because it destroys the world but because it removes the veil that let powers misrepresent themselves, and transforms into something else entirely—the fire of the-age-to-come breaking into ordinary time. Not history's end but it's deepening. t.co/7ogYl2uuLj
Open original document@lukeburgis No need for a new network. The Cloud Event writes itself—the Spirit-momentum of Logos reality, spreading faster than lies, announcing where the digital age was always headed: message, medium and messianic as one. Redemption makes all things new, including the systems we've built.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting McLuhan Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: top maxim Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1956720144660791583 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @FrontPorchRepub “It is, therefore, a simple maxim of communication study that any change in the means of communication will produce a chain of revolutionary consequences at every level of culture and politics.” ~ Marshall McLuhan, 1955. Let's add consciousness to that mix, too, shall we? t.co/PfdiFi5sX8
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting McLuhan Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Just gonna brush Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet here: Just gonna brush the dust off this one, too. Marshall McLuhan: “The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.” 1/2 It's all One Media Picture, of course, along with a Unitive Ecology defined, of late, by a radically-accelerated harvest of consequence, consciousness and disclosure characterizing a Media Event of epochal proportions as one planetary paradigm crashes and another replaces it. What if the dark, mercenary genius of algo-supercharged, exploitative media-ecology's claim upon the private soul is ultimately checked only in recognizing its larger, evolutionary role delivering us to a sunburst of revelation overturning the tables of history itself?
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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: 1/2 One Media Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet here: Just gonna brush the dust off this one, too. Marshall McLuhan: “The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.” 1/2 It's all One Media Picture, of course, along with a Unitive Ecology defined, of late, by a radically-accelerated harvest of consequence, consciousness and disclosure characterizing a Media Event of epochal proportions as one planetary paradigm crashes and another replaces it. What if the dark, mercenary genius of algo-supercharged, exploitative media-ecology's claim upon the private soul is ultimately checked only in recognizing its larger, evolutionary role delivering us to a sunburst of revelation overturning the tables of history itself?
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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: What if dark mercenary Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1643585525192986624 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @jamespoulos What if the dark, mercenary genius of algorithmically-supercharged, exploitative media-ecology's claim upon the private soul is ultimately checked only in recognizing its larger, evolutionary role delivering us to a sunburst of revelation overturning the tables of history itself? t.co/c4kO8zC7ur
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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: Barba-Kay Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1956713734782501364 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @hedgehogreview 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. t.co/bKkeoojUn1
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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: Bingo Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1674439860080513024 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @JasJohl @nils_gilman Bingo. *Choice* excerpt, Nils. Peculiar, isn't it, the evolutionary ontology of a noospheric, algorithmically-supercharged claim upon the private soul, and the planetary harvest of consequence, consciousness and disclosure it radically enhances, remaining, as a rule, unobserved.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting McLuhan Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Jun5 WWIII Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1665705897035702274 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @leashless "World War III will be a guerilla information war, with no division between civilian and military participation." That's Marshall McCluhan headlining a 2017 Atlantic Council report on the radically enhanced capabilities of AI-driven computational-propaganda for mind manipulation. t.co/2D4NKwGr7Q
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Martin Gurri Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Dec30 3/ Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet here: Bingo. *Choice* excerpt, Nils. Peculiar, isn't it, the evolutionary ontology of a noospheric, algorithmically-supercharged claim upon the private soul, and the planetary harvest of consequence, consciousness and disclosure it radically enhances, remaining, as a rule, unobserved. "World War III will be a guerilla information war, with no division between civilian and military participation." That's Marshall McCluhan headlining a 2017 Atlantic Council report on the radically enhanced capabilities of AI-driven computational-propaganda for mind manipulation. Copy of tweet: Nick Routledge 3/ Martin Gurri: “That was me at the global media analysis section of CIA...And I was not alone. A group of us were obsessed with the same drama...We all asked the same question: Why? What does information technology have to do with politics?”
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge referring to McLuhan and Panikkar Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Mar5 Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1897367265370366165 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @TaraAnnThieke @GeltnerJonathan McLuhan saw it as crucial to push past an experiential 'environment' invisibly dictating the limits of our questions, positing technology and consciousness merging, in effect, in a Cloud-enabled apocalypse transcending such limits to birth 'a new form of revelation' (Panikkar). t.co/TQw5pLOUaC
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting James Poulos Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Many sides Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 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. Bingo. *Choice* excerpt, Nils. Peculiar, isn't it, the evolutionary ontology of a noospheric, algorithmically-supercharged claim upon the private soul, and the planetary harvest of consequence, consciousness and disclosure it radically enhances, remaining, as a rule, unobserved. "World War III will be a guerilla information war, with no division between civilian and military participation." That's Marshall McCluhan headlining a 2017 Atlantic Council report on the radically enhanced capabilities of AI-driven computational-propaganda for mind manipulation. 3/ Martin Gurri: “That was me at the global media analysis section of CIA...And I was not alone. A group of us were obsessed with the same drama...We all asked the same question: Why? What does information technology have to do with politics?” McLuhan saw it as crucial to push past an experiential 'environment' invisibly dictating the limits of our questions, positing technology and consciousness merging, in effect, in a Cloud-enabled apocalypse transcending such limits to birth 'a new form of revelation' (Panikkar). Many sides: one disease. J. Poulos: “Who has the fullness of soul in them, and the authority this vitality confers, to triumph over the computed and computing world in its worldliness, to redeem it and turn it back toward service to the given life of the world and we the living?” 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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