@jamespoulos The Cloud vector intensifies mimetic pressure, automates our idols, and forces a verdict on what finally grounds the human as sacred. Interpret the pain of this Reckoning as malice and we conjure an evil god; rightly read as judgment-mercy, we receive it as the Real disclosed.
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Copy of tweet and subtweets here: 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. 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. end/ McLuhan foresaw it: every medium, pushed to its extreme, becomes its reversal. Mimesis, routinely misread as mere rivalry, is desire's deepest truth—our longing to become like God. The same Cloud that automates sacrifice now ruptures into annunciation. The eschaton streams.
@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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