@jamespoulos Cybernetics stalls because every correction remains representation checking representation. Incarnation is the reality-binding event: truth bound to bodies, consequence, cost, covenant-mechanism before metaphor, borne rather than rendered. “The medium is the message” radicalized.
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Our call, in practice, is to confront the simultaneity of the enormous force of the Zeitgeist and its primary, expressive medium. I wonder what Ellul, so presciently alert to the transcendent significance of wedded spiritual and media environments, would have made of the Web Era. 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. @theccsn 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." Subtweet: 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.
Open original document@walterkirn Total technology, fully realized, saws through the beam it stands on. The perfected abstraction displaces the legitmacy structure it was meant to witness, mass-producing disbelief. The Powers, perfecting the instrument of their own dissolution, fall first. The Real outlasts them.
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Copy of tweet here: In truth, AI defines but a subset of representative reality losing its authority. The entire Media Picture is fracturing. No less than credibility itself—truth's ontic touchstone—is collapsing as a category. The deeper issue, then? What's it pointing us at? Subtweet: 17/ This is media ecology's deepest point. The trust crisis isn't merely informational, it is ontological. The entire mediation stack—computer-mediated and otherwise—is a world-making apparatus, and generative AI is the threshold event of a universal solvent poured into it.