Decay Culture Event

“Decay does not result in the equivocation between putrid and wholesome; it rather constructs both ideas as its gradationally proper forms, so that what is considered wholesome can in fact be seen as a rotten derivative of an initial construction that has limitropically diminished.” - Reza Negarestani - "Undercover Softness,"

"Decay had only increased the utter hideousness of its wicked symbolism and diseased suggestion, for the parts most affected by time were just those parts of the picture which in Nature—or in that extra-cosmic realm that mocked Nature—would be apt to decay or disintegrate." - H.P. Lovecraft, Medusa's Coil

“One might equally denote this planet as the muddy planet, for it is the only one to be encased in a thick shell of mud and mudrock, being literally enveloped in its own decay products" - Jan Zalasiewicz, The Earth After Us

"We took a place within a darkly flourishing landscape where even the air was ripened into ruddy hues and everything wore the wrinkled grimace of decay, the mottled complexion of old flesh." - Thomas Ligotti,The Shadow at the Bottom of the World

“that which is present in the interstices of the other matter is itself porous; conversely, therefore, in its pores the other exists; but not only this matter but the third, tenth, and so on. They are all porous and in the interstices of each all the others are present, just as each, with all the rest, is present in the pores of every other. Accordingly they are a multiplicity which interpenetrate one another in such a manner that those which penetrate are equally penetrated by the others, so that each again penetrates its own penetratedness. Each is posited as its negation, and this negation is the subsistence of another” - Hegel, Science of Logic

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Decay is predominantly seen merely as the undoing-agent of positive historical-cultural constructions, the unfortunate side-effect of time and neglect. Decay is the unfortunate aesthetic end of the biological, and the lamentable affect produced by the crumbling inorganic.

Musings on decay often (unfortunately) tread on class difference, as the have-nots are manifested as agents of social degradation, atomized rats which threaten to scratch off the veneer of civilization (Oswald Spengler, H.P. Lovecraft).

Philosophically decay is relegated to secondary status, as the impossible ideal of entropy (Deleuze) or as some strange transformative player for Henry of Hesse the Elder.