Bacteria, the simplest form of free-living life, are constantly with us. A single bacterium can multiple to more than a million in about eight hours and, no matter how much we wash, millions remain on our skin. Each of us is the keeper of a huge invisible zoo. In fact, at any given time, there are as many creatures on our bodies as there are people on earth.
The notion of culture is in need of a radical re-evaluation, one which recognizes the fundamental fact that communication and identity are not in any way basic or necessary to cultural production. The multiplying, non-communicating disjunctive series that aggregate on the surface to make up the basis of life form an economy of intensive zones that superimpose without recognition. The ecos is an environment and a culture which operates unilaterally to the anti-environments manufactured by the myths of communication.
