Templexity: Disordered loops through Shanghai Time

After the superficial radicalism of Land's style passes, we are left with a broadly productivist account of templexity as time disintegrating into spiromorphic positive feedback loops. In an especially telling passage, Land repeats Eliade's schema of Judaism as the escape from cyclical temporality:"modernity in its distinctive, progressive sense is the dramatization of something else. As an exoteric sign, public display, or collective drama, its central theme is a break-out from confinement within cyclical time. In this respect it bears a striking theological message, recapitulating the understanding of Judaism as the ‘discovery of history’ – a revelatory transition distinguishing Abrahamic from pagan religion, industrial from rural society, and cosmic mission from indigenous peculiarity. The attractions of this popularization are not hard to understand. After all, from the perspective of progressive modernism, cyclical stability is a trap, broken open (uniquely) by the ignition of self-reinforcing, cumulative growth. So persuasive is this vision that its subversion counts as perhaps the greatest of modern ironies. Though staged as a break from the cycles of time, modernization is more realistically envisaged as a flight into cyclicity."-- Itai Farhi, goodreads.com, Jul 15, 2020
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Destination orientation;