RT @nick_routledge: @MassimoFaggioli That's what the dominative psychopolitical complex constitutively does: it metabolizes competing signals in a frequency only it controls. The only power capable of exceeding that frame? Apocalypsis as anagoresis—what Benjamin names the interruptive 'blast' of 'messianic arrest'.
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The challenge, in other words, is civilizational, a disease of the world-soul as much as structural and institutional powers. Perhaps consideration of modern political theology as it relates to a phase shift of total planetary political change may prove timely and illuminating? Subtweet: The spur is that the metastasizing aggregate of a planetary Extinction Tyranny has finally secured its flag. As Benjamin noted in 1940, this 'storm' isn't happenstance as much as an ontic inevitability constitutive to the phenomenon of techno-modernity itself. What instead, then? Your question invites an answer. The Church isn't alone. The stark truth, in materialist terms, is that everyone, everywhere, has been outgunned by a global control-complex poised to kill us all. The unifying articulation of a coherent, consolidated, planetary response, then? 3/ This, not some form of cheap universalism, rather a planetary reckoning with a Wholeness transcending supremacist epistemologies and their full-spectrum dominance over the moral and ontological imagination and “the infrastructure of all religions and all cultures.” (Girard) 1/ We're certainly ripe for the sudden, planetary irruption of a positive anthropology proving timely, coherent, comprehensible, accessible, democratically and universally 'catchy’, and which functionally addresses the totality of human and earthly needs.
Open original document29/ The Parousia is not another disclosure offered for acceptance or refusal. It is the collapse of conditions making sustained non-recognition possible—cultural buffers, institutional mediation, and the illusion of distance that makes rejection of truth psychologically 'viable.'
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Copy of tweet here: 10/ Embodiment, then, isn’t an optional moral add-on to “apocalyptic insight.” It is the epistemic condition of integrity. If exposure and judgment aren’t lived as cost, fidelity, mercy, and refusal of domination, then apocalypse re-seals reality even while claiming to open it. Quote tweet: nick_routledge 7/ This is why post-truth politics correlates so strongly with disconnection from materiality—and why every return to direct, consequential engagement with matter recovers sanity by accessing forms of verification that exist outside human opinion and puncture our projections.