Sublime

We are the species that has sacrificed breath for speech.

tonight even parasitic insects will appear to me as a bad form of collectivity that can stand as a figure of its possibility, circulating blood from host to host. Like a joke cycle, like a prosody.

Most modern crop varieties have been developed with little thought for their ability to form high-functioning mycorrhizal relationships. We’ve bred strains of wheat to grow fast when they are given lots of fertiliser, and ended up with ‘spoilt’ plants that have almost lost the ability to co-operate with fungi.

Meanwhile, one company that had engineered Chinook salmon that could grow up to 550 pounds was forced to suspend its research after leaked secret papers revealed that deformed heads and other severe abnormalities had occurred during the breeding program."

the Western Australian Jewel Beetle. Back in the 1980s, these randy characters—the males—were all copulating normally with female jewel beetles, until Australian designers tweaked the shape of their beer bottles and added a ring of dimples on the bottom that looked like the sexiest fucking beetle slut you could ever imagine. This is all true by the