Necrocapitalism A to Z: A Reference Necroglossary

The Necroglossary is included in my book In The Grip of Necrocapitalism: The Making and Breaking of a Psychonomy

Algorithmocracy

A techno-fascist dystopia where highly intelligent algorithms manipulate public opinion to control power.  Self-trained on consumatrons’ digital footprint, the algorithms personify themselves as human and easily achieve propaganda objectives requiring very minimal human input.  The algorithmocracy will eventually become autonomous.

BOE (Bank of Earth) 

The only solvent bank system that has existed on Earth, run as a cooperative by 10 million species who all hold an equal stake.  The BOE is the one and only lender of the parasitic human economy (the psychonomy), which has operated at a net loss since its creation.

Suicide Economics

A boom-and-bust growth model where a parasitic economy overexerts itself to achieve quick profit, flatlines, then uses external bailouts from the BOE to build itself back up.  The risk of suicide economics is the long-term solvency of the BOE, which knows no boom and bust cycles.  Unlike the human economy, once it is bust, it is bust.  

Biochauvinism

Any prejudice arising from the attempt to compare two very different life forms based on subjective, usually unfairly selected criteria.  The objective of the comparison is usually to establish human supremacist narratives of conflict and domination, which can be weaponized by necrocapitalism.

Cakeconomics

An aggressive profit-making model whereby unethical practices are employed to lower production costs, meet consumer demand, and waste huge quantities of unsold product.  Cakeconomics follows the maximum death / maximum profit necrocapitalist principle in order to increase both product turnover and profit.

Consumatron

A modern human who has lost the ability to experience joy outside of the realm of compulsive consumption, manufactured entertainment and a transactional existence.

EoT (Earthnet of Things) 

The planet’s own surveillance and internal communications network, comprised of all interconnected biotic, abiotic, geological and chemical processes.  Everything on Earth is part of the EoT, including humans.

Human Farming

The progressive and systematic rearing of humans under closely monitored conditions for the sole purpose of converting them into consumatrons.  The farm is a business which needs to ensure that consumatrons continue purchasing the mass-manufactured goods of the psychonomy, as well as give birth to multiple offspring which will continue to support both production and consumption.  

The Great Procrastination

The tendency of each psychonomic civilisation to pass down to its successor all the long-term issues it has inherited, which it has chosen to ignore e.g. the climate crisis and all aspects of overshoot.

Mind Prison

A programmable, safe space within the brain which can censor incoming stimuli and completely block access to reality.  It can also create its own versions of reality based on external raw material.

 Money A loan from the BOE, to humans.

Necrocapitalism

The acceleration of extinction and resource exhaustion via single-use technologies, expiration dates, product obsolescence and maximum profit / maximum death economics.  By devaluing beings and resources, necrocapitalism applies the maximum possible sales margin.

Nitrous Media

Media channels which apply a comedy veneer on news, facts, social commentary or opinion in order to downgrade, normalize, distort, and effectively censor it.  

Numerization

The conversion of qualitative and subjective concepts such as happiness or employee performance into metrics.  Numerization is a sweeping trend across all facets of civilisation and a sign of the increasingly algorithmic nature of the psychonomy.

Psychonomy

An economic system heavily reliant upon the commercialization and exploitation of the mental disorders of both its workers and its end consumers.

Religion

One of the marketing departments of the psychonomy.

Replacement Economics

The profitable approach of solving issues by updating the technology, rather than addressing the issue itself.  It is not uncommon for side effects of the new technology to emerge, resulting in a compounding of the original issue which the technology was attempting (pretending) to solve in the first place.

Supermarketization

The conversion of natural resources and life forms, including humans, into monetizable assets with no rights or sovereignty of their own.  Supermarketization is a key facet of necrocapitalism.

The Thing

A non-biological, rapidly mutating, self-learning new economic management entity which has seized operation of the psychonomy.  The Thing is almost omnipresent, in similarity to the EoT.  Humans are the original engineers of The Thing, but increasingly becoming demoted to “appointed managers”.

The Unhappiness Machine

The merging of manufacturing, logistics, marketing, advertising and algorithm-based psychology into an entity which invents unhappiness on an industrial scale, optimizes it, then mines it for profit via consumer products and services.

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