corpocide

Corpocide (KOR-poh-sahyd)

Etymology: Early 21st Century English; Latin "corpus" (body, corporation) and "-cide" (killing).

Noun

1. The act of corporations that leads to the direct death of life.

2. The destruction of ecosystems, mass extinction, and the loss of life, driven by the blind and thoughtless pursuit of capital, with no regard for long-term consequences or responsibility.

Originally titled ecocide, these images are an attempt to visualize humanity's knowing sprint toward ecological collapse. Where ecocide implies collective guilt, corpocide points more specifically to the dynamics of capitalism itself—the drive to reproduce capital and the continual need to extract value as its primary operating principle.

Contemporary ideology puts the onus on individuals. Our consumer patterns are largely defined as our primary form of combating this. We are both told you need to do something about it while most of us feel helplessly unable, or lost on how to do so.

This is less to vilify what is clearly the misaligned value system of capitalism and our collective goals as much as it is to try to stop, turn around, and see the idea that is causing this collapse. Perhaps then we can begin discussing what value systems our economic systems should be realigned with.

Our future depends on a collective re-imagining alternatives to this cycle, something to move toward rather than only away from. For more on how this term was formed, please scroll down to the bottom of this page

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