The nearly synchronic progression of the counters appears strange: 1400 cars produced at Fiat's Melfi plant versus the 1534 daily deaths recorded in Italy in 2001 (National Institute for Statistics ISTAT). A one to one ratio. A death, a car.
Death on the left, production on the right. Death/work, a pairing lacking the strength of the antithesis death/life, work/not work, blatantly poses as the natural existential course, where life is entirely encompassed in the "laborant" universe by virtue of both formal and substantive deduction.
Dead work represents a bleak, neo-realist, antibiotic landscape. It is a documentary about hegemonic thought, a snapshot testifying to our subservience to instrumental logic, a sign to constantly remind us that capital has a single vital impulse, that of generating surplus value, of absorbing the greatest possible quantity of surplus value from dead work snatched from life.

1975/2002
a Tiberio