Black Holes | Black holes accumulate mass with such force that light cannot escape. The invisible hand drove technological innovation resulting in economies of scale to production. This allowed for flexibility in the accumulation of capital and its products, compressing relative time and space, giving way to increasingly accessible and ephemeral consumption of goods, services, and stimuli. With capital flows coerced to flow from consumers to businesses, the same resultant force may be modeled by shifts in the elasticity and quantity of aggregate demand.
Revelations | Presentation of ‘resilience’ strategies as predestined for collapse, the metropolis and media as hypnotizing depressants, and societal norms as power structured for capital gains revealed the silhouettes of specified Anthropentric networks to be primordial black holes typically eclipsed by the supermassive force of competition. The directionality of the resultant of forceful demands remains unknown.
Supermassive | Paradigm
Flexible Accumulation | paradigm of mass consumption of ephemeral and globalizing goods, services, and stimuli; borne and bred from Fordist technologies yet deviant from its goals due to the resultant of capital compression into vertically disintegrated sectors and inverted flow of money from consumers to businesses; the predatory captivation with capitalist ideals and volatile, differentiating preferences for products under the guise of the invisible hand.
Primordial | Instance
Resilience | social-spatial strategy design to distinguish endurance to disasters and shocks; plan to secure local social control and economic growth within advantaged zones; at the expense of vulnerable persons: those contributing least to challenges, suffering most from shocks, and with least power to negotiate protections.
Revelations | Evidence
Organism | biological unit composed of organic material; organized by expected occupation in space and ownership of space; driven by cognitive processes that necessitate tradition in daily life; shaped by boundary maintaining images that leverage eugenics to categorize perfection and available freedom.
Vertigo | a state of disorientation, pervasive sadness, and introspection, then alienation: a detachment from self, work, and society; triggered by the mediation of increasingly abstract, complex, and foreign technology while engaged in bottomless labor; inhibitor to aspirational political change, crippled by the invalidation of current difference.
Supernova | Direction
Urban Doom | aftermath of urbicide, permanent ecological catastrophe, due to the futility of an urban landscape to Anthropocentric networks; assumes imminent geological threats devalue then detach physical and economic infrastructure from planetary networks; driven by insufficient, unequal, insatiable ‘resilience’ strategies intending adapt to climate change.
Sources
- KIAN GOH, “CLIMATE JUSTICE AND URBAN FUTURES”
- GEORG SIMMEL, “METROPOLIS AND MENTAL LIFE”
- DAVID HARVEY, “TIME-SPACE COMPRESSION AND THE POSTMODERN CONDITION”
- DONNA HARAWAY, “CYBORG MANIFESTO”
- STEPHANIE WAKEFIELD, “CRITICAL URBAN THEORY IN THE ANTHROPOCENE”
- MUSE, “BLACK HOLES AND REVELATIONS”
- National Human Trafficking Resource Center
- Getty Images
- Upsplash
- Bloomberg CityLab
