Tetraditional Economy II

Astronomically inclined visions of the apocalypse accumulate in accelerated fashion by way of wayward zombie-sats.

Apocalyptic aspirations aside, take out too many satellites and doom-sayings  will be curtailed by network failures and spotty service.

Satellites themselves, perjoratively described as “zombies,” have retrieved a new found freedom as they wander and wonder through the cosmos, dropping their typically designed functions, enjoying the attractions of the terrain.

Towards an orbital urbanism, all manner of space craft now echoing Guy Debord in their satellite footprints amidst heterogeneities and densities of debris

Comets and other old-school astrological signs are obsolesced in this schema, while light pollution alone  may condemn all prophecy-mongering astronomy on its own terms.

Tetraditional Economy

New media hype for smart phones and data devices enhances the hospitality of the outboard brain.  However, the outlandish claims can get quickly cranked up to the point of distortion.  Utopian promise, pushed to its limit, reverses. Hype becomes a z-grade maniacal rant, straight out of the mad science milieu.  

Relatedly, extra-terrestrials with over-sized crania, no longer the shape of things to come, have become obsolesced. Living fossils at best, they are stationary artifacts from a discontinued future.  The insight to be retrieved in this occurrence echoes the doom of the alien brainiacs. That is to say: New Media Died Yesterday.  Today’s e-waste is only as novel as tomorrow’s tech failures.