Forwarded from Galactocosmic Ontological Disorder (Batzrov)
Rock is a record of planetary history, eras as long as millions of years flattened by the forces of geological time into strata with amplitudes of just inches, or just an inch, or even less. Ice works that way, too, as a climate ledger, but it is also frozen history, some of which can be reanimated when unfrozen. There are now, trapped in Arctic ice, diseases that have not circulated in the air for millions of years—in some cases, since before humans were around to encounter them. Which means our immune systems would have no idea how to fight back when those prehistoric plagues emerge from the ice. Already, in laboratories, several microbes have been reanimated: a 32,000-year-old “extremophile” bacteria revived in 2005, an 8-million-year-old bug brought back to life in 2007, a 3.5-million-year-old one a Russian scientist self-injected, out of curiosity, just to see what would happen. (He survived.) In 2018, scientists revived something a bit bigger—a worm that had been frozen in permafrost for the last 42,000 years.
Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
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"Groundlessness, the Earth, and multiplicites constitute the plane with which we must being, or which we must reach, even if it is inevitably presupposed. We still know very little of what this entails. We do know that only the claims rising from groundlessness, claims immanent to the plane, are retained to the extent that they express that part of the plane they bear within themselves. Acoordingly, they are less claim than expressions. What makes them necessarily aberrant is precisely their relationship with the groundlessness they rise on the surface, precisely that which they express of that groundlessness."
~D. Lapoujade
~D. Lapoujade
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