Existential Graphs as Ontographic Media

Abstract

The result of one of the most massive scientific efforts on earth, the Trinity test would pioneer the design of the bomb later named »Fat Man« and dropped on Nagasaki. The test was soon ceasing to be a test and became a reality. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientific director of the Manhattan Project, upon witnessing the explosion cited the Bhagavad Gita: »If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One.« And then, as the large cloud grew over the desert, another line came to his lips from the same scripture: »I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds.« He would soon turn against his own invention, unable to stomach the implications of what he had helped to construct-a technology that would shatter the world. A machine designed for nothing but death, but in doing so, transforming all life on earth. 1 The Trinity test marked a pivotal moment when species survival and technology were intimately and horrifically intertwined. Since then, every element of life is penetrated by technology. The very shell of the planet transformed geologically by radiation. Today, one of the main markers used by science to demarcate for the newly coined geological era of the Anthropocene is this test. It demarcates a moment when human materials and technologies have