@SohrabAhmari @michaelbd Trust is collapsing at an epistemic, not merely infrastructural, level—a symptom, in effect, of mediation itself entering ontic collapse. The question is no longer whether this is happening, but how we position ourselves within it. What is being revealed?
@SrDorcee The very experience of not knowing what to trust anymore is an apocalyptic grace—judgment on our idolatry of representation. The core question isn’t “how do we patch epistemology?” but, “where does Truth actually live?” And that question, pressed hard enough, is Christological.
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Tweet thread: Are you living in an imitation, anon? Ellul, Ong and McLuhan, fundamentally Christian media ecologists all, would suggest our reconciliation with truth an eschatological matter. Quote tweet: Escaping the Pseudo-Event? We turn toward a reality wholly penetrated by Truth Alive; the native, immediate, unmediated neighborly. S. Zohar: “The messianic world will be a world without images in which no more comparison will be possible between an image and what it represents. This distinction being made, Ellul does not think that all answers to the question are equally legitimate. He believes that the one Truth worthy of the title is the God who created the world, led the Israelites out of Egypt, became incarnate in Jesus Christ, and will bring the world to its final consummation. Before the Fall, according to Ellul, Truth wholly penetrated reality; after the Fall, we think we can arrogate reality to ourselves, but are cruelly deceived. Between the Fall and the final consummation, only in the incarnation of Jesus Christ has truth completely penetrated reality (Ellul 1981: 89–92, 280 [ET Ellul 1985c: 79–82, 253]). ‘Truth, Reality and the Ten Commandments: Not for Theology Alone’, Virginia W. Landgraf, in ‘Jacques Ellul and the Technological Society in the 21st Century’, Springer, 2013. Tweet thread: Jesus provided us with no old or new 'concept' of the kingdom of God at all. He brought God's kingdom himself. “Though he never coined the phrase, 'the medium is the messiah' may have been McLuhan’s ultimate perceptual insight. The 'medium is the message' may have been merely its conceptual phrasing.” - Read Mercer Schuchardt, The Reformation as Media Event, Second Nature Quote tweet: 5/ McLuhan: "In Jesus, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same...it is only at the level of a lived Christianity that the medium really is the message." "…the kingdom is a social reality at a transcendental level. Hence, it cannot be communicated except by means of a communitarian and fraternal form-of-life." #IvanIllich @unitethepoor #poorpeoplescampaign
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