Book Launch for Mike Corrao's Being Towards Death, introduced by Logan Berry, and followed by a live interview with Mallory Smart.

…Within the fabric of dying capitalism, the omniscient voice emerges. It watches you, fixates on your every movement as you spiral and spill through a compound of occult, otherworldly structures that have been converted into low-income housing. In this slippery, dark realm, ideas from previous iterations of humanity are irrecoverable, undownloadable. Only fragments of language remain: textured, glitchy, unpredictable.

The voice tells you: “We are living in times of exceptional instability.” Extreme and unresolvable polarities compose the foundation of the text: collapse + creation; confusion + elation; hilarity + hypnosis; concealment + omniscience. Being Towards Death presents a cruelty severe enough to manipulate the framework of matter and life itself.

The work resists traditional genre conformity entirely. Corrao’s structural, architectonic illustrations spill over the text in designs of chaos and unrest. They act as winding roads among a landscape where language suffocates on itself, backdropped by climate anxiety, housing inequality, and poverty.

Although you’ll exit Being Towards Death, its design will stay woven inside you, gouging permanent structures into your psyche. Even after the world returns, glimmers of Corrao’s Molochian underworld still slip through its seams.