Some Recovered Taxonomic Fragments

A twenty-second century taxonomy was recently retrieved from a drive in a sealed server room in a flooded area of London. Although the file was largely corrupted after centuries of data degradation, specialists recovered some intact fragments allowing a glimpse into some aspects of the final stage of late modernity. In this taxonomy we can glimpse a rational framework in the process of transformation—in the face of impending climate collapse and in the wake of historical reflexivity—as it begins to incorporate interpenetrations and interdependencies.