RT @nick_routledge: @pauljpastor As McKenna saw it, the real challenge is about reclaiming our minds—a stance, he suggests, that asks us to become producers, not consumers, of reality. I don't know. I enjoy this place for now, but I'm not sure I'll stay or whether there'll even be something here to remain for.
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Tweet: @nick_routledge and @lukeburgis 13/ This is the terror and the Good News. The system will not fix itself. It will be torn like the temple veil. The messianic comes not to negotiate, but to rupture. The algorithm that surveils will herald. It will announce what it cannot contain: the Lamb it meant to kill. What if a war on perception itself - so totalizing in its epistemic, full-spectrum claim upon the private soul that we barely recognize an essentially diabolical assault for the peak deception it signifies - is, oddly, similarly vulnerable to a larger, 'invisible' susceptibility? 2/ But what if the very same computer-mediated reality and force now being wantonly employed by global authoritarianism to slay entire social networks and populations and their dependent structures of consciousness and power, isn't as much a peerless as peer-to-peer capability? I once ran into @pmarca hawking a pre-release of Netscape Navigator 1.0. Already, my team had run the first WWW pipe into the U.S. Congress, on Mosaic. Then, as now, as always, if you can't see the paradigm for the trees for the point of it all, your dominative days are numbered. Quote tweet: end/ With world-enslavement massively consolidated by an epochal analog-to-digital shift capturing modern experience itself, of course. Which does rather beg the question of its larger, evolutionary significance, doesn't it? What, ultimately, does 'The Web' represent?
Open original document@jeff_bilbro @alexnazaryan @SulkinMaya @j_amesmarriott @larissaphillip @justindeanlee @NadyaWilliams81 @deenamousa @KelseyTuoc 1/2 The Machine is a clear civilizational hazard—an attention predator, automator of sacrifice, and mimetic derangement engine. And Kingsnorth is hardly alone in missing its deeper role as a simultaneous vector of consciousness pressing toward an evolutionary, parousial horizon.
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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: top Aug16 body Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @Plough @suzania @MadocCairns @koppsch_a If climate chaos loses its terror and becomes a liberating hope only once its interpretation is fully Christianized, perhaps technology trends can also only be fully understood apocalyptically, that is, from a point of view revealing a meaning different from their literal sense? t.co/yOirl4XQBt
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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: nested end/ Needs be said Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @unherd end/ Needs be said, reality's inclusivity is boundlessly vaster than 'the West' and 'Christendom' as Kingsnorth has it. Then again, illumination framed in an essentially occidental, Christian vernacular has its merits. For one, if "everything is religious", This Machine is, too. t.co/SK7YaA8N2q
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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: nested May28 I farm Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @leashless I farm. Yes, the Technium cult, largely blind, anthropocentric, diabolically absurd; and Kingsnorth, hands-down, one of our wisest. But he misses a critical, positive, Christological dimension, namely, IT as central to transcendent political intervention at the planetary level.
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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: Aug2 end/ As for here and now Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @RyanHaecker end/ As for the here and now, the transition from experiencing cyberspace as a seamless complement to, and not a separate substitute for concrete reality, similarly stands the test. Presence is eternity radiantly alive. This stuff, here, now, is holy, too. t.co/450Lrbtt1p
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Heschel Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: bottom end/ dirt under fingernails Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet here: Fascinating, the fascination of it. But has AI yet stumbled upon 1 Cor 1:19? Incompleteness itself as dimensional blind. Not digital mists but fog at sea. The beauty of a seasonal creek. Silence, radiant with tender presence. Terroir of humus. *whispers* Incarnation experience. 1/ Yes, even as our tendency to conflate the network's narrative edgeline with 'The State of the World', amounts to a category fallacy of cosmic proportions - as if the totality of planetary history and reality amounts to a downstream, behind-the-times, lesser subset, somewhere. end/ Which brings us to the dirt under the fingernails of these, my transmitting fingers, uniting us all, root and branch, flesh and blood, off-screen and on-screen, in the dynamic interplay of a single helix of Presence. It is time, friends. "Eternity utters a day." - Heschel
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