Author Archives: d.perry

“…this psychedelic function of theory, where it has this potential to strip back all the crusted, dead layers of the catastrophe that we usually refer to as the human race,” he continues, “to zoom into this somewhat reptilian, info-material core, with a cold indifference but simultaneously an intense excitement.”

Dominion of Tomorrow’s Mineral Exigencies

to make everything national
reservoir radiance at the ready
tax-exempt lake by the town hall
how often we talk
makes me feel the weight of time
lost inside the system
hidden rhythm extends
the walls that generative
hem me in
top flight cruise vacation prison
the walls that open-plan
tell me where and when
the treasure is hidden
the search ends before it begins
black gold impales my wrist
string me up for even trying to
think of limiting no limits
sunrise always surprising
eternal night underlies it all
everything is temporary
but is nothing?

Lawrence Summers, former President of Harvard University and Chief Economist of the World Bank, issued a confidential memo arguing for global waste trade in 1991. The memo stated:

“I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that… I’ve always thought that countries in Africa are vastly under polluted; their air quality is probably vastly inefficiently low compared to Los Angeles… Just between you and me shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging more migration of the dirty industries to the Least Developed Countries?”