“Capitalism is the reciprocal transmutation of life into death and death into capital. Necrosis is capital’s mode of apoptosis, reproducing the means of production by its destruction. It is both saprophytic and parasitic: it feeds on live and dead nature the same; it seeks to render them indistinguishable. From the standpoint of the Necrocene, capital appears as a species, an opportunistic detritus feeder producing mass extinction in the present through the exploitation of past extinctions. The more capitalism exerts its planetary power through the intensification of surplus extraction from Cheap Natures, the more it necrotizes the world-ecology it has created.”
—Justin McBrien, Accumulating Extinction: Planetary Catastrophism in the Necrocene
THE ARCHIVE OF THE UNWRITTEN
History is written by the victors, but if you look hard enough, truth will shine through the cracks. Leaked communications, diary entries, research journals… Within these pages, you will find the lore of parasites in all its forms—ancient, modern, and eternal.
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This printed chain of email was found shredded in one of the few public bins in the City of London. The contents of this digital version were reconstructed from the fragments.
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