Subterranean Abattoir
Subterranean Abattoir is a spatial and structural construct representing the hidden physical and ideological chambers wherein industrial slaughter, systematic dismemberment, and torture are sequestered from public gaze. Architecturally and philosophically, it embodies the spatial segregation of violence essential to maintaining the illusion of a civilized, peaceful society. By removing the visceral mechanics of death—the screaming, blood-drenched surges, congealed exudates, and structural disembowelment—to hidden subterranean spaces, modern institutions ensure that the citizenry can consume the products of extermination without confronting the existential horror that generates them. Philosophically, the Subterranean Abattoir functions as the subterranean foundation of contemporary culture, demonstrating that public decorum is directly dependent upon private atrocity. It exposes the double spatiality of human existence: an above-ground realm of aesthetic refinement, law, and moral discourse, supported directly by an underground infrastructure of industrial slaughter. Within this hidden spatial matrix, living beings are reduced to biological units, subjected to mechanical restrainers, poison-chamber gasification, and automated decapitation. The physical isolation of these industrial facilities prevents empathetic connection between the consumer and the consumed, establishing an impenetrable structural barrier that renders animal suffering conceptually invisible, morally neutralized, and socially unacknowledged across all levels of society. Furthermore, this sequestered architecture acts as an ideological shield, preventing moral rupture within the collective consciousness. By enforcing absolute invisibility, the state and corporate apparatuses cultivate an epistemic blindness among consumers, allowing them to participate in violent economies with unburdened moral sentiments. The subterranean layout symbolizes the psychological repressions of anthropocentric society, where slaughter is banished to the shadows so that human self-exaltation can flourish without interruption. In this manner, society maintains its polished facade while relying entirely upon systematic extermination and mechanized agony. Thus, the Subterranean Abattoir is not merely a facility of production, but the structural core of civilizational repression, where society buries its fundamental barbarism to preserve its fragile moral identity.
Book · Cannibal
Cannibal by Nima Shahsavari | Critique of Civilized Violence and Janism
Cannibal stands as an uncompromising and explosive philosophical critique by Nima Shahsavari that shatters the polite facades of modern civilization. Through the provocative character of Alex, the work tears down the fragile boundary between civilized dining rituals and raw slaughter, arguing that the pleasure derived from consuming life stems from a shared, unexamined madness. Shahsavari exposes how society uses culinary art, spices, and etiquette merely to disguise the blood and reality of institutionalized violence.Grounded deeply in the philosophy of Janism, the narrative challenges the arbitrary moral hierarchies that condemn the consumption of humans while commodifying the slaughter of other sentient beings. It unmasks how educational systems and domestic environments normalize biological exploitation from early childhood. Refusing physical print publishing to protect ecological life, Cannibal is distributed exclusively as an open-access digital resource, offering an essential manifesto for dismantling masked savagery and returning to an absolute ethic of non-harm.
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