We speak of ‘life forms’ but not ‘death forms’. Prior to the emergence of representational cognition in humans, these didn’t really exist. It wasn’t that death didn’t exist, but rather, there were no mechanically-motivated processes that invented new forms of death, propagated them, and continuously reproduced them in the body of the ecologies and relational hyperstructures of organisms. Now there are.

People speak of creating mechanical life. But to organisms, machines are death forms. Those are not alive. And they kill. Unconditionally. Without relation. In fact, they represent the collapse of the manifold of lived relationships… and their product is dead beings, dead terrain… and dead time.