@suzania 1/ My hacker team established the first web connection into the U.S. Congress around a Congressional Briefing on Computer Ethics I co-chaired 30 years ago. Governance issues. Long a focus of concern. Around AI—mimetic escalation on steroids—most parse the code but miss the Logos.
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Tweet: 20/ The deeper turn? Military and civil spheres have collapsed into a single, fused continuum: the Cloud. A unified field where hybrid, state-corporate actors now actively foment full-spectrum warfare across kinetic, economic, and epistemic fronts—a mimetic vortex of contagion. 4/ This is not distraction or miscommunication but metaphysical deformation and deception at the level of being—a new form of domination. Moral dissonance is shrouded, the truth of the victim erased, witness silenced, and justice deferred, in the silent calculus of the Algorithm. 5/ The novelty of our moment isn't that capitalism exploits or that militarism kills—it's that digital infrastructure has made mimetic escalation algorithmic. The convergence has become infrastructural. What Girard saw as cultural process is now technological architecture. 6/ Commerce, conflict and communion all circulate in one mediated space, collapsed into the singularity of the Cloud. Longing and lethality, profit and power, marketplace and battlefield are rendered exchangeable. War becomes market. Market becomes war. 7/ Here, weaponization is revealed as not adjacent to capital but as its evolutionary form. The algorithm doesn’t just recommend and sell—it aims and hunts. Every desire is indexed, not to heal but to target. Capitalism mutates into weaponized desire. Predation becomes protocol. Quote tweet: 11/ Capitalism and militarism are now one stack, united in a common liturgy: data in, target out. Enmity is automated. Fear loops. Rage scales. And, of course, AI puts this contagion of mimetic escalation on steroids. Gaza isn’t a malfunction. It’s a demonstration. A template.
Open original document@Plough @chezaristote 2/ That said, I occasionally teach smartphone meditation to youngsters. Meditation? A low average 170 daily interactions constitute a psyche-techne of cosmic import. Do we demonize quotidian digital experience, or consciously sanctify it? How do we alchemize addiction into ally?
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Paul J. Pastor Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: top caption Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1970940660426698903 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. There is a certain irony in the fact that integrated and connected technologies seem to be accelerating human disconnection and disintegration so efficiently.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Adorno Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Apr26 1/ Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @pauljpastor 1/ So true. That said, I wonder, if however, the decisive role of information technology shaping the direction, form and character of mimesis at the planetary level can ultimately be understood, in Adorno's terms, "only in the light shed on the world by redemption.” For one... t.co/KBDh26LTD5
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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: Aug16 and two nested Nick posts Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet here: 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? 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. Quote tweet: 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 quoting Bulgakov Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Sep23 2/ Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @EuroConOfficial @EsmeLKPartridge 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. t.co/u9XvVIHjQN
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: @deepfates Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: bottom wizards question Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet: If you knew a society of powerful wizards was trying to summon an alien god to harness its power, but they thought there was a 5% chance it would kill everyone in the world, what would you do? Assume you're only a medium level hero 7:14 AM · Sep 22, 2023
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