Taxonomy
Mutations of Financial Bacteria
“Left to their own devices, yeast cells will consume all available resources and poison themselves to death.”
Ethan Siegel, “Humanity is like yeast cells”, Big Think, 2021.
It is a collection of creatures that emerge from the invisible, from what seeps through. Imagined fragments of a spectral world, a financial biology in permanent transformation. Graphic phantoms that insist on inhabiting our systems of exchange and memory, materialising in drawings that resemble organs, bureaucratic labyrinths, cancerous bio-algorithms. Bacterial mutations of an economic system that infiltrates bodies and everyday life. Creatures that operate at the molecular scale: extracting, designing, parasitising, mutating.
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Debitorum
Alias: Liquidity Moth
Family: Noctivagous Credit
Morphology: Wing apparatus resembling skirts eroded by expired clauses; head perforated like a sieve of currencies. Around its body floats a dark cloud of accounting spores that mimic reserves, yet remain hollow.
Vector of contagion: Deposits its eggs in central bank balance sheets. The larvae silently devour paper money, leaving shells of debt. In its adult phase, it migrates to tax havens, where its wings vibrate to the rhythm of manipulated interest rates.
Observed mutation: From domestic archive-feeding insect it became a parasitic financial entity, each wingbeat expands the evaporation of liquidity in fragile economies.
Speculum intestini globalis
Family: Derivativae mutantes
Common name: Speculative intestine
Morphology: Labyrinth of expansive loops, folds that trap faces and empty capsules. Rugged surface with microscopic inscriptions.
Contagion: Spreads across futures platforms, replicating with every transaction.
Behavior: Functions like an intestinal galaxy: its curved folds generate fictitious gravity that attracts capital.
Mutation: With high liquidity, it dilates and extends pseudopods; in recession, it becomes fibrotic and encloses debts in cysts.
Manufex Migrantis
Alias: The Centipede of Eternal Discount
Morphology: Segmented organism, elongated and multiple, with dozens of filamentous limbs functioning as work units. Each leg is an enzymatic production reactor, specialized in transforming vital energy into corporate profit. The thorax concentrates metabolic activity and redistributes capital flows as if they were blood currents.
Contagion: Spreads through free trade agreements, industrial relocations, and migratory capital. Activates its infection in environments where regulation is minimal and labor becomes disposable. Its carriers are multinationals that disseminate global supply chains like viral vectors.
Behavior: Operates in productive swarms, moving towards geographies with high social vulnerability. Reproduces a pattern of “maximum hands, minimum costs.” Its metabolism is based on the extraction of infantilized energy: young, thin bodies turned into disposable labor cells.
Mutation: Derived from the Noctiluca Derivativa strain,
Habitat: Settles in free-trade zones, sweatshops, textile factories in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ethiopia, or Haiti. Prefers habitats where regulation exists only as a legal illusion, and where state corruption offers biological and fiscal immunity.
Arbor Toxicus of Litigating Volumes
Alias: Herbicide of Systemic Volatility
Provisional classification: Order Chemico-Financiales, Family Arbores Glyphosatae, Subclass Derivatium Oncogenicum
Description of the mutation: The creature unfolds as a molecular market tree: each branch resembling modified carbon chains, each fruit-orb a disputed chemical patent. The central trunk bears the inscription “volume,” reminding us that what circulates is not sap but contaminated stock-market flow.The mutation embodies the logic of financial glyphosate: its effects are cumulative, invisible at first sight, and although thousands of organisms display symptoms (lesions, lawsuits, medical debts), the courts of the system act like dry branches that endlessly postpone the evidence. The creature flourishes precisely in that zone of legal ambiguity where the market extracts its greatest profitability.
Vector of contagion: It spreads through the rhetoric of “agricultural innovation” and the promise of efficiency in emerging markets. In its most active phase, it camouflages itself in international contracts, shielding toxicity with layers of technical language, due diligence, and corporate arbitration.
Exo-Mycelium Martis
Alias: The Teslian Winged
Morphology: Organism with a central, ascetic, elongated stem, with semi-translucent winged extensions reminiscent of pulmonary alveolar structures. Its core is a symbiotic reactor of battery-cells, capable of storing both solar energy and industrial waste.
Contagion: Spreads through financial launchpads and capsules of technological speculation. Uses as its vector the imaginary of progress and the promise of space colonization, infecting both human bodies and investment balance sheets.
Behavior: Operates in swarms that simulate cellular cooperatives, but in reality function as monopolistic clusters. Its migratory flight is oriented towards planetary wastelands where it can establish unregulated metabolic chains. Feeds on debt, lithium, and narratives of innovation.
Mutation: Derived from Manufex Migrantis, but having lost its collective legs, it develops market wings—a phenotype that allows it to fly over toxic atmospheres. Its DNA is reconfigured as business pitch, where each codon is a KPI and each exon a token.
Habitat: Arid lands, post-agricultural deserts, and in its advanced phase, the Martian crust. Prefers habitats where extraction costs exceed immediate benefits, paradoxically attracting high-risk speculative capital.
Monospirae conglutinata
Alias: Chemical Twins
Morphology: Two spiral bodies joined by a central cord. At first sight they simulate the perfect design of symmetry, but their organs are compressed and shared, a single stock-market heart beats for two executive heads.
Contagion: The pathological union occurs when regulatory atmospheres are weakened by the dispersion of “invisible chemicals”, derivatives of mergers, hidden subsidies, and patents.
Behavior: They grow like fetuses in contaminated incubators, feeding on monopolies of air and water. They present themselves to the public as miracles of efficiency, yet inside there is no independence they share a circulatory system, a fiscal liver, and lungs of debt. When they colonize a market, they generate an illusion of stability while prolonging the agony of what should be genetic diversity (economic and biological).
Mutation: Each time an atmosphere of failed regulatory chemicals accumulates, new Siamese appear: banking, pharmaceutical, or automotive conglomerates.
Habitat: Regions with high atmospheric pollution and low institutional transparency. There, where clouds of chemicals mix with financial smog, these anomalous twins are born and reproduce, inhabiting simultaneously the sick forests and the accounting ledgers.
Equus lobbyensis ballisticus
Alias: Dividend Cowboy
Morphology: Equine body, multiple legs simulating the “raised hands” of congressmen voting tailor-made laws. The head shows a hybrid between bovine skull and tribal mask, adorned with gunpowder cavities. Its skeleton is covered in stock market codes in the form of cattle brands, as if Wall Street tickers had been burned into its skin.
Contagion: Spreads exclusively within the political ecosystem of the United States of America. Its spores travel in the form of midnight-amended bills, while lobby-proteins penetrate the neural receptors of the Capitol. The main vector is campaign donations, which function as viral capsules.
Behavior: Parasitic and expansive: each school shooting acts as a catalytic enzyme, accelerating the multiplication of the organism in the market. Operates under a “cowboy code”: shoot first, regulate later.
Habitat: U.S. Congress, especially in states with the highest density of firearms per capita. Its larvae incubate in gun fairs and patriotic speeches, reaching reproductive maturity in news broadcasts after each tragedy.
Tentaculus Orbitalis
Alias: Tentacular Clause
Morphology: The main body branches into appendages resembling claws or hooks. Their extremities evoke illegible signatures and marginal clauses. Around them, four fragmented spheres rotate like disintegrated coins in microgravity. The texture suggests superimposed layers: viral proteins, notarial seals, and residues of mortgage deeds.
Vector of contagion: Juridico-viral transmission in three phases: Atmospheric: migratory capital channeled through stablecoins/DEX and high-frequency routes.Tissular: adhesion via ISDA boilerplate, pari passu clauses, and parametric triggers in smart contracts.
Orbital: re-hypothecation of collateral in clearing houses and L2 layers acting as Van Allen belts, concentrating “particles” of flow. Catalysts: monetary volatility, carry-trade windows, and regimes of regulatory exception.