the iconoclast's descending

  The Hermeneutics of Iconoclasm in Mid-Modernity:  A. Covenant Substrate, Non-transactional Kinesthetics, and the Vectoring Awareness of Atoning Energies and Flows.  B. Valorization of Entropic Forms and Feudalizing Mechanisms of Babel. August 29, 2025 [updated November 7, 2025 where noted] Douglas Blake Olds   "Only describe, don't explain." --Ludwig Wittgenstein "The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss—an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc.—is sure to be noticed." Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death   ABSTRACT Technocracy is advancing a radical, algorithmic configuration of reality in which cognition is hijacked—progressively detached from its biological substrate and reconfigured within machinic, software-based architectures. Intelligence is no longer formed in relation to sensory flesh, breath and the rhythms of li...