@holdengraber Though his primary theological referent was Jewish messianism, Christian eschatology provided Benjamin a core theo-political motif—the anti-Christ. Not mythology but the System itself—a total machine of illusion, sacrifice and ruin—enthroned as progress, crowning itself destiny.
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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: Or, as Walter Benjamin noted Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1905316173782434040 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @erikmbaker @_Eric_Reinhart Or, as Walter Benjamin noted, authoritarian surges or 'storms' as he called them, aren't a happenstance as much as an ontic inevitability constitutive to techno-modern 'progess' itself. t.co/NeSd67bvfX Retained uncertainty: ["Both pictured passages compared with saved wording; portrait retained; saved misspelling progess unchanged."]
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Paul Holdengräber quoting Walter Benjamin Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: That things 'just go on' is the catastrophe Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet here: "That things 'just go on' is the catastrophe." ~ Walter Benjamin thanks to Retained uncertainty: ["Both pictured passages compared with saved wording; portrait retained; saved misspelling progess unchanged."]
Open original document@ncolloff The spur is that the metastasizing aggregate of a planetary Extinction Tyranny has finally secured its flag. As Benjamin noted in 1940, this 'storm' isn't happenstance as much as an ontic inevitability constitutive to the phenomenon of techno-modernity itself. What instead, then?
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Copy of tweet here: Your question invites an answer. The Church isn't alone. The stark truth, in materialist terms, is that everyone, everywhere, has been outgunned by a global control-complex poised to kill us all. The unifying articulation of a coherent, consolidated, planetary response, then? 3/ This, not some form of cheap universalism, rather a planetary reckoning with a Wholeness transcending supremacist epistemologies and their full-spectrum dominance over the moral and ontological imagination and “the infrastructure of all religions and all cultures.” (Girard) 1/ We're certainly ripe for the sudden, planetary irruption of a positive anthropology proving timely, coherent, comprehensible, accessible, democratically and universally 'catchy’, and which functionally addresses the totality of human and earthly needs.