Epistemic Closure

🦠 Necrocene
>
Epistemic Closure

Metaphysical Ground

The Sealed Universe: Systematic foreclosure of alternative ways of knowing, ensuring only extractive worldviews are considered "valid" reality.

🔮 Sustainability Theorems

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

Political Theory

Reality Governance
Controlling which knowledge systems receive funding, accreditation, and legal recognition to maintain epistemological hegemony.

Economic Theory

Knowledge Enclosure
Patent systems, paywalls, and credential requirements that monetize and restrict access to knowledge commons.

Cultural Theory

Monocultural Rationality
Erasing indigenous, spiritual, and experiential knowledge as "superstition" while elevating instrumental reason.

Ecological Theory

Resource Epistemology
Reducing living ecosystems to measurable, extractable data points while dismissing relational knowledge.

Monopolizes truth through institutional authority, silencing other ways of knowing (especially Indigenous, embodied, or communal knowledge).

📑 Observations

Establishing a triage containing observations of social experience.

🪞 Self-Enquiry

What knowledge have I dismissed because it didn't come through approved channels?

🩺 Diagnosis Questions

1. Whose knowledge counts as "expert"?

2. What ways of knowing are excluded from institutions?

3. How is dissent pathologized or criminalized?

🫆Related Variables

- Research funding distribution

- Indigenous language preservation rates

- Alternative therapy criminalization

‍

"The fish is the last to discover water"

🩻 Targeted Organ

The Third Eye

Capacity for intuitive perception and visionary insight

🧾 Rationale

To prevent holistic understanding that could challenge reductionist control paradigms.

💉 Extraction/Cultivation

Replacing intergenerational wisdom transmission with standardized testing and accredited curricula.

😷 Defense/Propagation

Exclusivity Gatekeeping: Celebrating only peer-reviewed, quantitatively validated knowledge while dismissing lived experience.

❌ Tetrad Analysis

Central Claim:  
Epistemic closure enhances control by restricting reality to measurable data, but reverses into epistemological crisis when unmeasurable realities demand attention.
  • ENHANCES: Predictive control, bureaucratic efficiency
  • OBSOLESCES: Intuitive wisdom, spiritual knowledge
  • RETRIEVES: Medieval scholasticism's dogmatism
  • REVERSES INTO: Proliferation of conspiracy theories and anti-science sentiment

📝 Partial Diagnosis

Mind Virus: Systematically excludes relational, spiritual, and indigenous knowledge while creating dependency on credentialed expertise.

⚗️ Research Repository

🔮 Engagement Circle

Civil Society

🧊 Life Course

Social & Spirituality

🎓 Case Study

Western Psychiatry vs. Indigenous Healing: Diagnostic Statistical Manual pathologizing non-Western consciousness experiences while pharmaceutical solutions receive funding.

📚 Literature

The Order of Things by Michel Foucault; Science, Colonialism, and Indigenous Knowledge by Ranjan Datta

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.
Download the Zine on Gumroad ⬇