The frame has blurred away \ Fever death arising like burst glass || mangled spines \ This is the age of fact | where the violent insertion of cancer cells into animals is applauded by scientists across the globe \ Objectivity is the new face of barbarism | death god // sublimating existence for truth \ Raw data filters from the rot of deformed limbs | tweezers crush the heads living fish // guts spill | formaldehyde fixes the flesh of squirming insects | spliced genes splay the spines of mewling mice \ There’s no doubt || biology is the practice of death \ Animals without niches \ Organs without bodies \ Cells without hosts \ An aperture maw | red // yellow // black // white | leaking nervous tissue over an absent whole \ Reality has been atomised // brutalised // banalised \ Objective knowledge replacing all critical thought << [[Muscle // nerve // fat // blood // bone ]] Experience nothing \ [[The germ cell cycles every 28 days ]] Know nothing \ [[The average lifespan of a lab rat is three years ]] Feel nothing \ [[Over one hundred million are killed yearly ]] Science saves \ Biospace severed // prescription drugs fall // epistemic // into clean white bottles \
After getting a biology degree, I came to the realisation that for three years of my life I had studied nothing but death.
That objectivity is a throwaway term to allow morally inept ***** to slaughter as many living creatures as possible for the sake of publishing a scientific paper that will be out of date by the end of the decade.
That anthropocentricism, utilitarianism and humanism allow one to circumvent any and all forms of ethical debate over the suffering inflicted by science on other life forms.
That animal ethics is such a joke to the University that the only exercise we did to confront it was stick a pin on a string, the left pole signifying comfort and the right discomfort, before cutting into a live eel.
That statistical and categorical norms allow for those who define them to dominate over those who deviate from them.
That truth is like any other commodity; completely divorced of its origins; a free-floating fact whitewashed of all bias and blood, to be consumed without any thought as to its production.
That science isn't progressive, but a conservative body miming apoliticality, while developing lethal weapons for imperalist armies.
That this world is abhorrent.
