@NoemaMag @AndrewSorota 27/ Mimetic escalation is now, in practical terms, already beyond human control and fully infrastructural. “Try turning it off." Girard names the trap—mimetic rivalry drives us toward apocalypse—and the only exit is interruptive intervention—something outside the rivalry's logic.
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2/ Some aver the recent, massive, mimetic escalation in technology-accelerated cycles of violence and counter-violence defining geopolitical conflicts perceived by key antagonists in fundamentally existential terms, abrogates the theoretical premise putting a brake on Armageddon.
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end/ So, an algorithmically-supercharged vortex of mimetic contagion and, all told, a momentum the prophets universally anticipated would inevitably deliver us to the very threshold of suicidal, planetary cataclysm. Hobbes' 'war of all against all', plus nukes. What next, then?
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@lukeburgis 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.
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