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cave - LD50
A short toxic-cavern text that uses enclosure, poison, and subterranean atmosphere to think the outside from below.
Archive condition
The page uses the canonical extracted text as its reading layer while preserving the original file paths as the archival source of record.
Core idea
The page matters because it relocates the outside into enclosed subterranean space. Toxic depth becomes a way of undoing surface comfort.
Atmosphere does conceptual work here. Cave-space and poisonous dose are used to make underground materiality active rather than scenic.
That matters because geotrauma is often most vivid when it is local, enclosed, and materially hostile rather than cosmically abstract.
How to read this text
Read for dose, enclosure, and depth together. Their combination is what gives the page force.
Track where the cave stops being setting and becomes a machine for material thought.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 13
Daily reminder that the ancient Deluge came up from within the Earth [noise comes from inside the channel] [outside is inside] #CaveTwitter #RhettTwitter's Plutonian/Neptonian split Can I make Kube jokes still or is it just caves now?
Definition · paragraph 22
"Geotrauma is an ongoing process" #CaveTwitter is in a permanent state of production, and produces its own production in kind ground making geology
Definition · paragraph 13
cave — LD50 https://www.ld50gallery.com/cave[1/21/2018 12:22:34 PM] Jurong Caverns; Singapore's underground liquid hydrogen storage facility. Daily reminder that the ancient Deluge came up from within the Earth [noise comes from inside the channel] [outside is inside] #CaveTwitter #RhettTwitter's Plutonian/Neptonian split Can I make Kube jokes still or is it just caves now?
Definition · paragraph 28
cave — LD50 https://www.ld50gallery.com/cave[1/21/2018 12:22:34 PM] The message is clear, what we think of as modernity is just a temporary phase between the reign of the old nature gods and the new gods which will be born from the chaos of the net. Man's mastery of earth is temporary.
History · paragraph 79
cave — LD50 https://www.ld50gallery.com/cave[1/21/2018 12:22:34 PM] Pictured: Rhett Allain drags the ravaged corpse of outed Strasserist Nick Srincek into #CaveTwitter Necrospeleology has done a number on Rhett, it looks like >wasn't that a chapter from Necrophysics? Yep, dedicated to Numko his work on Lemurian cave dwellers and their adaptation to subterranean ecosystems - really interesting how Rhett connects it to Zone-9
Appears in sections
Geotrauma and the Outside Primary section
Molten earth, Barker, the inhuman Outside, and the archive's geological imagination.