Monday, April 07, 2008
Globalization is the Speed of Light(?!)

Seth Godin with 9 tips on how to write like a blogger. His no.2 cuts straight to the point:

Realize that people have choices. With 80 million other blogs to choose from, I know you could leave at any moment (see, there goes someone now). So that makes blog writing shorter and faster and more exciting.

Thinking out loud, what if we were to replace the word 'blog' with 'sermon'?


Carl Raschke has an exciting new book out entitled GloboChrist (makes me think of RoboCop!). For a teaser of sorts, check out his
Globalization and the Great Commission in the "Postmodern Cosmopolis". There's this seriously cool paragraph:

"As Paul Virilio in one of his more enigmatic, but highly insightful, quips tell us: “The speed of light does not merely transform the world.  It becomes the world.  Globalization is the speed of light.”

"At we approach the speed of light time condenses and space contorts.  Globalization yields an instantaneity of both communications and relationships, a transcendence of the simply cultural and the merely social...In the postmodern cosmopolis relationships are radically “deterritorialized” (Deleuze).  Postmodern Christianity is the “radical relationality” that the postmodern cosmopolis makes possible."

Posted at 11:35 pm by alwynlau

 

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