Structural Violence

Foundational Logic

🦠 Necrocene

🔮 Sustainability Theorems

A cross-domain analysis of Political, Economic, Cultural, and Ecological theories.

Political Theory

Necroviolence
The desecration of humanity

Economic Theory

Prolonged Violence
Structural deprivation that kills gradually through poverty, pollution, precarious work

Cultural Theory

Epistemic Violence
Destruction of meaning systems, languages, and cultural memory

Ecological Theory

Ecological Violence
Treating living systems as disposable, creating sacrifice zones

The Daemonic Nature: Violence is not an aberration but the primary operating system - the invisible energy source powering extraction, domination, and control.

📑 Observations

Establishing a triage containing observations of social experience.

🪞 Self-Enquiry

In what ways do my daily choices depend on or ignore systems of violence I don't have to see?

🩺 Diagnosis Questions

1. Does the system require some beings to suffer for others to flourish?

2. Is harm externalized to invisible populations or future generations?

3. Are there sacrificial logics built into economic and political calculations?

🫆Related Variables

-Direct and indirect mortality rates from systemic causes

-Wealth transfer from vulnerable to powerful

-Ecological damage costs vs. prevention costs

"These people have always been divided, we're just managing the situation (mowing the grass)."

🩻 Targeted Organ

The Lungs

Capacity for Collective Solidarity

🧾 Rationale

To create a permanent crisis economy where destruction becomes profitable.

💉 Extraction/Cultivation

Targeting family homes, community centers, mosques, and schools, the infrastructure of social reproduction.

😷 Defense/Propagation

Naturalization: Framing fragmentation as ancient "tribal conflicts" rather than engineered policy.

❌ Tetrad Analysis

Central Claim:  
Violence as the primary operating system for extraction and control
  • Object of Perception: Social Order
  • ENHANCES: Social control through fear; efficiency of domination; externalization of costs
  • OBSOLESCES: Empathy; solidarity; restorative justice; visible accountability
  • RETRIEVES: Colonial and feudal power relations, sanitized through bureaucracy
  • REVERSES INTO: Pervasive insecurity and paranoia that ultimately threatens the powerful; normalized pathology becomes visible as systemic collapses

📝 Partial Diagnosis

Normalized Pathological Violence - Harm is so embedded it becomes invisible, treated as "the way things are"

⚗️ Research Repository

🔮 Engagement Circle

Civil Society

🧊 Life Course

Safety & Security

🎓 Case Study

The Prison-Industrial Complex

Direct physical violence as economic engine and social control.

📚 Literature

"The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail" by Jason De León (2015)

The author, an anthropologist, coined the term "necroviolence" and his work provides a forensic and ethnographic analysis of how state policies constitute a form of structural violence that continues to exert force on the bodies of migrants even after death.

Devoured in the Necrocene
Part One of understanding the world we live in is to see its full destructive power. This Zine visualizes the Necrocene, the Age of Death, and its application in Gaza.