The manifesto that accompanied the publication of the map:
— The whole world is falling apart along our seams.
— From Kamchatka to Chile! From Alaska to New Zealand! Reified by capital, in the middle of the Solar System. Liber-slavia! Neoliberslavia!
— What happened to Yugoslavia in the 1990s – material plundering legitimized by identity wars – now seems to be playing out globally, only this time under the influence of artificial intelligence.
— When I find the time and energy, I’ll turn this map into a globe.
— Our traumas and post-traumatic sensitivities are becoming global traumas and global post-traumatic sensitivities.
— How to parody the Balkan obsession with geopolitics when that very obsession itself is becoming global?
— Tidal waves of neoliberal-nostalgia await us. Monsoon tears of neolib-nostalgics.
— They could learn from us, come here to see their own future, but how, when they are too arrogant and we are too fucked up?
— Every map lies, and this one especially.
— But will you see a better visual analysis?
— Because it is not the world that is falling apart but your mental model of the world. ■
