Joshua Johnson

For a period of about two billion years, bacterial organisms were the dominant life-form on Earth. During this period, the Earth’s atmosphere experienced a rapid transformation, as early cyanobacteria photosynthesized oxygen from the oceans, loosing hydrogen into space. Oxygen pollution of the atmosphere resulted in further evolution, producing an explosion of new types of bacteria, and provoking the first mass extinction as the terraformation of the atmosphere destroyed almost all organisms unable to survive an oxygen rich environment.

The existence of the manufactured object is in-itself a unique miracle deriving from the evolutionary growth of capital in the soil of human relations and requires the organization and structural support of a complex machinic ‘organism’. As the late-capitalist environment undergoes accelerating upheaval, how will our products adapt in response? How will we adapt to them?