To Live and Think Like Pigs by Gilles Chatelet

“The capability to transform anything and anyone into raw material: this could be the very definition of trader knights’ economic and financial droit de seigneur. It is also the criterion that allows us to recognize that neoproletariat caste, the future cybercattle of neurocracy, joyous sophisticate of the always-incomplete chain of predation, primed by silos of soya, stocks of onions, pork bellies…and completed by the global apotheosis of the GReat Futures Market of neurolivestock, more volatile (and more profitable) than all the livestock of the Great Plains. Neurolivestock certainly enjoy an existence more comfortable than serfs or millworkers, but they do not easily escape their destiny as the self-regulating raw material of a market as predictable and as homogenous as a perfect gas, a matter counted in atoms of distress, stripped of all powers of negotiation, renting out their mental space, brain by brain.”

-Gilles Chatelet, 1998