ne ther
March 8, 2039
urras
nor
anarres
> select [open the code : mpn T*P] / print low res mode / human lecture codification
p. 8 [open the code / archive]
> […] [Disconnection]
from the [Internet] has
been achieved. [Now]
is your turn to achieve
the [most] important
disconnection: the one
from the [Western]
“self”. The [disconnec-
trans*plant special edition
tion] from what you’ve
named [consciousness,
this “self”] that [pretends
to command] XXX [un-
able to connect] with
other [life forms] XXX
we [call you the discon-
nected ones] […] <
p. 27 [open the seed / archive]
> […] In 2032, the
Pan-African Alliance
condemned molecular
colonialism and declared
the WHO institution
non grata in the Afri-
can continent, since it
considered it under the
biohacking journal
p. 12 [open the
molecule / archive]
> […] Obtaining a
pure molecule of
chlorophyll raises the
same obstacles as ob-
taining testosterone
on the part of both the
pharmaceutical and
biomedical industry
as well as of the legal
and health system. It
is the whole life which
is patented. […] <
control of the pharma-
ceutical industry. […] in
2037, a remote connec-
tion point to the Intranet
Mycorrhiza was estab-
lished […] <
We thank all the members of the biohackers community for the interviews and/or contents they have shared with us in order to
prepare this issue. For safety reasons, their names will not appear on these pages but we know they will recognize themselves.

– Note on the edge of time –

This journal is part of the Trans*Plant project. We are grateful to all who have accompanied us in the process.
Quimera Rosa > https://quimerarosa.net/transplant/

Journal made at 42°17’18.914’’N, 3°16’35.01’’E, designed and layout by txe roimeser.

Made in collaboration with the CCCB (Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona) as part of the Science Friction exhibition.

English version in collaboration with Solu / Bioart Society in the framework of Biofriction program.
Translation: Ari Gatak.
Proofreading: Helen Torres.
 MMXXXVI

I have thrown several personal tarot spreads and noticed something strange. A couple of cards
were recurrent and out of personal context. So I decided to throw a general spread to find out
what’s hidden in the messages.

I use two types of tarot. The first one is from A C and the second one is from O. They are five-card
spreads to be read first in a line, then as a mirror. The predominant card is therefore the central one.

The Magician appears first. He symbolizes will,
the wisdom and the word by which worlds have
been created. He has the ability to cast white
and black magic; to manipulate the tangible and
the intangible. It is followed by the Eight of
Wands. Communication that comes and goes at
the speed of light. / The central card is anoth-
er eight, this time of Swords, which indicates
thought interference. / It is followed by the
Tower. This card shows an unexpected fall that
occurs overnight. / The spread ends with the
Hermit, external information is cut off. Time
of solitude and reflection. Light is the only one
that can enlighten us.
The second spread tells me more or less the
same. First card: be awake and vigilant about the
arrival of something unexpected. It is followed
by the Death, that which never dies. Then
comes the Failure. We get locked in a box in the
middle of the sea. Then, throw away all knowl-
edge acquired so far by means of traditional and
academic studies. It ends with the Judgement.
This card tells us not to judge events as good
or bad on an individual basis. There is no place
for judgement if we think about becoming. / I
can see communication will soon cut off. Giv-
en that these days this happens almost exclu-
sively through the Internet, I think it is about
to fall. It is not an accidental crash, but some-
thing that is being built up. Something is being
brewed. The Magician and the becoming are up
to something.

OCTOBER 2036
4 · editorial neither urras

Historical context:

Year 2036, February 26. By that date, the annual resources available on planet Terra
had already been exhausted. The Global North human lifestyle already needed six planets
to support its rate of consumption. On March 8, multiple transnational and intersection-
al uprisings broke out all over the planet, combining various physical and virtual actions,
many of them coordinated. One of its most remarkable effects was the fall of the network
then called the Internet; the rarefaction of mineral resources had already complicated its
maintenance and made its administration more authoritarian. That March 8 the min-
eral extraction mines were occupied and reappropriated by their workers and neighboring
communities. Undersea cables were cut and many data centers were attacked through the
network itself and from the streets. On March 13 the Internet shut down.

EDITORIAL
It is in this context that we present this archival publication and, simultaneously, the
first paper edition of Neither Urras Nor Anarres1, the digital journal used as an
internal communication tool by the members of a biohackers network.

To put it together, we relied on remains of various nUnA digital versions found on

damaged hard disks, as well as on direct testimonies from members of the small group
of biohackers called Trans*Plant (T*P). This group also provided us with access to
some objects and documents that have been preserved throughout this time travel.

As all archives, this one is very incomplete; also as all of them, it has a speculative part.
The editorial group presenting this printed version of nUnA does not consider ar-
chaeology as a science that explains the past based on the finding of material remains,
but rather as a practice which, based upon these remains, seeks to develop a coherent
narrative of either the past or the future.

1. The title of the journal refers to a sentence by K CH on a night of mescal with QR at

19°24’55.205’’N and 99°8’12.274’’W. At some point of the conversation, she broached “We want
neither Urras nor Anarres!”. The reference comes from “The Dispossessed”, a science-fiction novel by U K
LG. The story takes place on a planet called Urras and its moon, Anarres. The inhabitants of Anarres are
the descendants of exiled people from Urras, after their participation in an anarchist revolution two hundred
years before the events narrated in the book. They live in sharing culture in a world with extremely scarce
resources. The inhabitants of Urras, on the contrary, have developed a capitalist urban culture.
 nor anarres editorial · 5

This archival edition of nUnA is based on the remains of T*P, due to the interesting
and diverse quantity of obtained material, and to the peculiarity of its project called
Mycorrhiza Intranet Connection… One of the aims of this project was to connect
to the Mycorrhiza, that is, a network composed by a symbiosis of roots and fungi
through which the land plant world communicates. For this reason, they first needed
to anticipate the Internet shutdown, in order to prevent any control over the connec-
tion operation from endangering the mycorrhizal network of the vegetal world.

To understand the Mycorrhiza Intranet Connection project we think it’s crucial to sit-
uate both the group and the context of its actions.

The T*P group, like the networks of which it was part of, was configured by trans-
feminist, non-binary and sexually dissident entanglements, in alliance with activists,
artists, scientists and hackers. Its beginnings in biohacking in the late 2000s started
to take shape in the post-porn community years at 41°22’47.112’’N, 2°10’14.385’’E,
in which BDSM practices were fundamental. Their affinity for latex gloves, needles,
scalpels and ropes is key to understanding its unashamed approach to tattoo, nursing
practices and biomedical experiments carried out in kitchens, garages and laborato-
ries. All these practices were closely linked to self-experimentation, and to what was
then called DIY/DIWO (Do It Yourself / Do It With Others). Even though T*P
defined itself as a transnational nomadic group, it was composed mainly by Europeans
and people from Abya Yala who had migrated to Europe. Their work on extractivism,
colonization and witch hunting brought them to cross back the Atlantic in 2012, to-
wards 17°22’56.889”S, 66°9’52.364”W, and to the Akelarre Yaku project, in collabo-
ration with M F D, in order to establish a first direct connection with the vegetal and
the molecular through a research on the cinchona tree, quinine extraction, malaria,
and the birth of pharmaceutical industry.

2015. It is the time of COP21, when a committee of experts has certified the name
of a new geological era, the Anthropocene, characterized by a kind of human activity
that has changed the natural cycle of Terra. Global warming, nuclear crises, dramatic
decline in biodiversity, human and non-human climate refugees… There is no room
for doubt. However, D H warns us of the main danger of the term Anthropocene: the
very notion of the Anthropos, based on “human exceptionalism and methodological
individualism”; she also reminds us that all forms of life will eventually seek their
own solution to get out of this crisis; therefore, there is no possible way out without
a collaboration among them.

This archive shows some of the actions of T*P biohackers group that took place be-
tween 2016 and 2038. We hope this contextualization will help you link the distinct
actions presented in the following pages. The journal has been structured keeping the
original names that formatted the archives, which have been encoded to be legible
to humans as Open the Code, Open the Molecule, Open the Identity, Open the Pill, and
Open the Seed.

May the Chlorophyll be with/in you.

6 · open the code
After the Internet shutdown on
March 13, 2036, the Trans*Plant
group decided to test the first con-
nection to Mycorrhiza, the net-
work made up of a symbiosis of
roots and fungi through which the
land plant world communicates. It
took them twenty years to get to
that moment. Their goal was to
set a tool for a direct communica-
tion with the vegetal, in the hope
of generating a post-Anthropos
alliance. In order to establish the
connection point to Mycorrhiza,
they had set up their servers with
neither urras
OPEN
THE
CODE
accumulated recycled material and
had provided themselves with their
own mini-Internet.
The goal of the first test was to cre-
ate a first direct connection point
at a specific spot in Mycorrhiza, as
well as to establish a remote con-
nection with a T*P server, in order
to obtain parts of the information
exchanges and to develop a human
language translation code.
That first test was entrusted in
2036 to the QR*3 group, and
was established at 41°39’59.7”N,
0°53’58.1”W, at a place where the
river drought had left big Mycor-
rhiza caves exposed. The remote
connection node was established
not far from there, on the -3 level at
41°39’35.432”N, 0°54’27.387”W.
It is also known that QR*3 used to
call this place “the Bunker”,”the
Incubator”, or “the -3”.
The connection point was suc-
cessfully established, but the first
members of this group died right
away under the effect of a still un-
 nor anarres open the code · 7

Remote connection

Neither Urras Nor Anarres

node to Mycorrhiza made

Reconstitution made by

editorial group in 2038.

up by Artemisia annua.

known volatile molecule. At that
time, they ignored that the process
would lead them to another kind of
connection to the vegetal—an in-
travenous administration of chlo-
rophyll to their participants…
It is a fact that the remote connec-
tion node is still alive, but its cur-
rent location remains unknown. It
is also known that its setting un-
derwent multiple developments,
one of them being the change of
the kind of plants that ensured its
operation and safety. In its first
version, Mycorrhiza was made up
by a Milpa, a cultivation system
used in some territories of Abya
Yala. In the next pages you will find
some images of this initial version.
We also know that Mycorrhiza had
requested the QR*3 group multi-
ple criteria to establish the safety
of the initial remote connection
node. Two of them were:
- This node must be located in a
bunker to prevent anyone from de-
tecting it.
- This node must incorporate
a safety system in case of intru-
sion into the bunker, which will
be monitored by Mycorrhiza.
This system is based on the release
of volatile molecules depending
on the behaviors of the intrud-
ers, the composition of which will
remain secret.
Thanks to some elements provid-
ed by T*P (photographs, diagrams,
texts and code extracts) we have
been able to reconstitute one of the
latest versions of this connection
node. For this purpose, they have
delivered us an Artemisia annua
seed that had been cryogenized
in 2019 at 47°17’48.046”N,
2°30’35.319”E.
In this reconstituted version, the
Milpa has been replaced by Arte-
misia, a plant used for thousands of
years to treat malaria, an endem-
ic disease that has gone global on
Terra due to global warming. The
relationship of T*P group with
seeds cryogenization is explained
in detail in Open the Seed.
One of the conditions set by T*P
when delivering us these files was
not to publish any information,
only a few images of its reconsti-
tution, as well as some information
regarding its functioning. They
have only allowed us to publish
a partially decoded text excerpt
emitted through Mycorrhiza. •
8 · open the code
> select
[open the
code : mpn
T*P] / print
low res mode
/ human lec-
ture codifi-
cation @ nei-
ther urras
nor anarres
Anonymous. 2016
> The Milpa is a cultivation
system used in some territories
of Abya Yala based on ancient
farming methods. It is a meth-
od of cultivation that produces
corn, beans and squash, grown
in concentric circle patterns
in which every plant protects
and provides nutrients to each
other. The Milpa refers to the
physical space, the soil, and the
plant species that grow in it. It is
also the reflection of the knowl-
edge, the technologies and the
practices necessary to obtain
food from soil and labour. “To
neither urras
do Milpa” means to carry out the
whole process, from the selection
have to [hack this identity control
center] XXX”<de control identi-
of the site to the harvest. The tario] XXX” <
concept of Milpa refers more to a
way of doing than to a cultivation
system; it involves complex inter-
actions and relationships between
people, and different relationships
with both plants and the land. <
> Message received through
Mycorrhiza during the second
connection established from the
Bunker. The excerpts in brack-
ets are the ones that could have
been decoded. The others are
an attempt to weave these frag-
ments together by the editorial
group. The parts in XXX are the
ones left unsolved.
“[The disconnection]
[…] [Disconnection] from the [In-
ternet] has been achieved. [Now]
is your turn to achieve the [most]
important disconnection: the one
from the [Western] “self”. The
[disconnection] from what you’ve
named [consciousness, this “self”]
that [pretends to command] XXX
[unable to connect] with other
[life forms] XXX we [call you the
disconnected ones] XXX You will
 nor anarres

Remote connection node to

Mycorrhiza made up by a Milpa. GR*3
Group, 2036.
open the code · 9
10 · open the molecule
OPEN
THE
MOLECULE
Open the Molecule gathers
some remains of the first chloro-
phyll IV, made at 46°3’36.804’’N,
14°30’16.467’’E, in December
2017. This section shows some
stories, images, diagrams and sci-
entific articles that give an account
of the research, as well as the ob-
stacles found by T*P in their at-
tempts to acquire a pure molecule
of chlorophyll and to elaborate a
protocol after three years of re-
search. Three years of ongoing
dialogue and joint practice with
neither urras
nurses, biologists, doctors, chem- for the first IV. It is known for a
ists, artists… fact that no further records of in-
travenous chlorophyll in humans
It is implied from the stories and had been found: the protocol was
documents found that there were developed by contrasting hacked
numerous complications, which at papers from scientific publication
the beginning had to do with a cer- sites.
tain resistance in the scientific field
to hybridize the animal world with
the plant world. Apart from the
multiple transdisciplinary collabo-
rations, it was not easy to achieve a
continuous accompaniment by sci-
entists in the preparatory process
 nor anarres open the molecule · 11

> 2016. The first exchanges with biomedical professionals

seem to announce serious complications: non-solubility
An anonymous of chlorophyll in water and, therefore, in blood; risk of
stroke; totally unknown effects on the immune system;
risk of anaphylactic shock; risk of diabetes from glucose
production as a result of photosynthesis.

> March 2017. Research at 41°24’31.239’’N,

2°11’57.813’’E, and 41°23’8.317”N, 2°11’39.953’’E,
encounter with photodynamic therapy: a photosensitive
molecule and its activation by exposing the area to be
found fragment

treated to light. One of the results: chlorophyll cannot

produce photosynthesis when isolated from plant cells.
[…]. Good news: there is no risk of diabetes. But the
energy received after the application of chlorophyll, in this
context, is transformed into reactive oxygen that causes the
death of the exposed cells.

> December 2017. Therefore, the action at

46°3’36,804’’N, 14°30’16.467’’E should be performed
without light, which is no longer color, but energy. A
process invisible to human perception. The chlorophyll
molecule has a light absorption spectrum in red and blue,

which gets almost to zero in green. We see plants as green

because they reject that visible part of the electromagnetic
spectrum. We associate them with what prevents them from
living. […]

C C
C C
C C C C
C C C C

N N N N Simplified version of a chlorophyll

Mg Fe molecule and a hemoglobin molecule:
N N N N
their structure are very similar, the main
C C
difference is that the central atom of
C C
C2 C2 C
hemoglobin is iron, while in chlorophyll
O is magnesium.
O C O C C O
C O
We know that this image was a source
O OH OH
C 20 of inspiration for T*P.
O
C

CHLOROPHYLL HEMOGLOBIN
Mg = Magnesium Fe = Iron

In 2037, when the damaged hard
drives were found, video record-
ings of the first IV became avail-
able. The T*P group had to deal
with an important variable: the ef-
fect of light on human body from
the moment chlorophyll enters
blood. Light on the body could
lead to a risk of cell death while
the chlorophyll remain in the or-
ganism (from 24 to 36 h.) and to
photosensitivity of eyes and skin
(degressively over the period of ap-
proximately 2 months); therefore,
the action was carried out almost
in the darkness. The video images
are recorded with a thermographic
camera from the time the chloro-
phyll is administered in the vein.
The action was completely done
in the dark, except for the mo-
ment of connecting the catheter,
which was illuminated with a sin-
gle green LED.
We also know that, in 2036, when
the first attempt to connect to the
Mycorrhiza Intranet took place,
the first members of this group
died immediately after, under
the effect of an unknown mole-
cule. And also that in 2037 the
first connection was successfully
established after a group of hu-
man agents accepted the protocol
called Less Human Than Human.
This protocol stipulated that a
chlorophyll IV was the first step to
reach a connection with the Myc-
orrhiza Intranet. •
 12 · open the molecule
> select
[open the
molecule : mpn
T*P] / print
low res mode
/ human lec-
ture codifi-
cation @ nei-
ther urras
nor anarres
Anonymous. 2017
> Part I. This text only suffers
from a little jet lag with the
present. It has been written
between 2 am and 8 am on
this December 5, 2017. The
English translation has been
done just before being read,
right now.
The bed that has been shared
until now starts to welcome
both a night and a day shift, in
order to allow for such transla-
tion. In the next room, proto-
cols for performing the IV are
being reviewed and practiced,
neither urras
between laughter and fatigue. This
text has several voices and runs
through various veins. This text
is the result of affects, allianc-
es, pacts and care. This text is a
journey that has been traveled
through together.
This text wants to rest, to go to
bed and stay with. This text is
borderline, it inhabits the bor-
der. This text calls upon the dead
and the living, the human and the
non-human to a post-anthropo-
centric ritual. How to live and die
together? How to live with? How
to make Mycorrhiza? How to es-
tablish interspecies communica-
tion networks?
This text needs 27 plant species
to be written. This text expresses
deep doubts about any concept be-
ginning with “self”, including that
of “self-experimentation” used by
ourselves. Perhaps it is not about
what we do with our lives, but what
we do with/in life.
This text suffers from arrhythmia.
It pumps up all the contradictory
emotions experienced throughout
these last two years of transition
process. From a sketch of a human
transition to plant.
Two years based on the convic-
tion that an intimate relationship
with plants is possible. Two years
of a process based on the profound
conviction that a chlorophyll IV
is possible. An intravenous that,
through the fantasies, fears and
judgments that generates, opens up
the discussion on the identitarian
system. This process of self-exper-
imentation is not individual, since
the people who accompany the
person receiving the IV are tran-
sitioning with her. Transitions that
are permanently modified through
feedback processes. And, beyond
these specific processes, it is the
social norms what’s challenged.
Part II. After two years of re-
search, we finally decided to obtain
the source of chlorophyll in the
form of a pure molecule extract-
ed from living Chlorella, a type
of single-celled green algae. This
molecule, Chlorin e6, obtained in
the form of a dark green powder,
was purchased from a biochemi-
cal company at 36°57’18,851’’N,
122°3’5.912’’W. In order to do so,
we had to pose as researchers from
a university at 41°23’2.083’’N,
2°6’52.96’’E.
Obtaining a pure molecule of chlo-
rophyll raises the same obstacles as
obtaining testosterone on the part
of both the pharmaceutical and bi-
omedical industry as well as of the
legal and health system. It is the
whole life which is patented.
Part III. The main downside of
chlorophyll is that it is not soluble
in water and, therefore, in blood,
which forced us to mix it with a sol-
vent, Dimethyl sulfoxide, known
as DMSO. DMSO can penetrate
skin and other membranes without
damaging them, thus it serves as a
vector for introducing substances
into a living system. Which will

make Ce6 penetrate deeper into
my body and remain longer in it.
Therefore, the choice of a dose, a
frequency and a duration, becomes
crucial to carry out this IV.
The main property of Ce6 is its
photosensitivity, and since my body
is devoid of chloroplasts, I will not
be able to photosynthesize. So, as
long as this molecule remains in
my body, and in the case it receives
light, it will produce free radicals
in the form of reactive oxygen,
which will induce oxidative dam-
age. A process that will cause cell
death in illuminated areas.
Chlorin e6 has a major absorption
peak at wavelengths that corre-
sponds to what the human visual
system interprets as red and blue.
Its permanence in my body is es-
timated to last between 8 and 24
hours, its dissolution with DMSO
would not allow for an exact cal-
culation. My eyes and skin will re-
main photosensitive for nearly two
nor anarres
months. During the first week of
this period, I could not be exposed
to natural light or strong indoor
lights, in order to avoid the risk of
serious burns. This sensitivity will
decrease progressively. Numerous
trips have been planned for the fol-
lowing two months, so I will have
to be completely covered. How
will the different control systems
react to the impossibility of iden-
tifying me due to a human > plant
transition process?
A process that goes through a more
sensitive becoming. A becoming
sensor, as N M says. My will is
not to become more human, but
less human. It is not really a desire
to become plant, but to hybridize
with plants. To become with. To
transition together. “May the chlo-
rophyll be with/in you.” <
open the molecule · 13
Chlorin E6 Trisodium Salt
- Frontier Scientific, Inc. Logan,
Utah, USA
- Result: No response
- Same case for about 10 others
companies
- 9189 €/g
Photolon®
- Belmedpreparaty. Republican
Unitary Production Enterprise.
- Minsk, Republic of Belarus.
- Result: bureaucratie impasse
- 1000 €/g
Chlorin E6
- Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.
(European Support Office. Heidelberg,
Germany)
- Result: only available for research
(universities, laboratories, hospitals).
We said we are researchers of a
Catalan University.
- Use: Performance @ Kapelica
Gallery. Ljubljana, Slovenia.
- 900 €/g
DMSO Dimethyl sulfoxide
- Sigma-Aldrich / Merck
- USA / Germany
- Result: bought by Hangar.org on
20.11.2017
- Use: to dissolve Chlorin E6 in water
(and so in blood) to make it suitable
for IV @ Kapelica.
- 1 €/g
14 · open the identity
Open the Identity collects the ear-
ly experiments of the Trans*Plant
group.
Thanks to the original Leather
Book kept by T*P, we have been
able to obtain fairly complete in-
formation about this period.
The Leather Book was made
in 2016 at 41°26’55.109’’N,
2°4’34.083’’E, out of bacterial cel-
lulose sheets cultured by the group
neither urras
OPEN
THE
IDENTITY
in order to learn tattooing and
make chlorophyll ink. Except for
its impermeability, bacterial cellu-
lose has similar characteristics to
human animal skin, and it is used
as a biomaterial for the care and
regeneration of tissue. In 2016, at
47°4’33.557’’N, 2°22’56.776’’E, it
was used to take care of K’s skin af-
ter a first chlorophyll tattoo. That
same year a chip was implanted
in K, information that appears in
the leather book, also used for the
group as a notebook.
This tattoo depicted an Ani-
malPlant, Elysia chlorotica. This
sea slug incorporates chloroplasts
into its own digestive cells from
the algae it feeds on. And it is there
where organelles continue to pho-
tosynthesize for nine months, the
same period of time they would
need to do so in algae. The tat-
too produced a nice swelling and
a small infection. It remained per-
8 de marzo de 2039 edición especial trans*plant ni urras ni anarres

Recipes
ceptible to human normative vi-
sion for nearly 6 weeks.
This tattoo was part of a collective
ritual conceived as the beginning
of a Trans* process, accompanied
by a change of name—from Y to
K. A name inspired by quinine,
from cinchona’s bark, a tree native
to central Andes forests, and a sub-
stance used by Andean witches as a
remedy for fever and muscle aches,
and also as an abortifacient. Until a
nor anarres
century ago, cinchona was the only
treatment for malaria used world-
wide, based on the extraction of an
alkaloid, the quinine. An alkaloid
that shaped the birth of the phar-
maceutical industry in a context
of political rivalries between colo-
nial powers.
We also know that, since 2029,
this community used a new tattoo
ink that could easily interact with
the production of melanin, which
open the identity · 19
Bacterial skin
(sheets of the leather
book)
1 SCOBY (Symbiotic Colony Of Bacteria
and Yeast, also called kombucha)
1 liter of water (60 liters of water)
200 ml of cider vinegar, do not use wine
or apple vinegar (12 liters)
200 g of sugar (12 kilos)
2 tea bags (60 tea bags) 1 black plastic bag
A pool made in a wheelbarrow placed in a
garden in the summer. SCOBY grows better
in heat, in a temperature grade between 18
and 35° C. The skin takes about 2 weeks
to grow, depending on temperature.
Tattoo Potion
(Chlorophyll Tattoo Ink)
10 g of sodium chlorophyll powder (it can
be food chlorophyll extracted from chlorella)
100 ml of Hamamelis water
5 ml of propylene glycol
5 ml of medicinal glycerin
1 mixer or blender, 1 sterilized bottle,
1 scale
Sterilize all tools before using them. Mix all
the ingredients and beat. Store in a sterile
jar in a cool, dark place.
allowed its users to modify their
skin pigmentation, with innumera-
ble nuances and a 6-week duration
after each tattoo session. •
Note: little is known so far about the ef-
fects of a chlorophyll tattoo on the human
animal body.
20 · open the identity
> select
[open the
identity : mpn
T*P] / print
low res mode
/ human lec-
ture codifi-
cation @ nei-
ther urras
nor anarres
Anonymous. 2016
> There is a kind of fascination
the moment I approach the
phone with the NFC Tools ap-
plication open, and the message
“NFC tag detected” appears.
The machine reminds me of
the reality of my transition pro-
cess before humans have the
capacity to do so. According to
it, my gender is ISO 14443-3A
and my available technologies
are NfcA, Mifare Ultralight
and Ndef. My serial number
is 04:FA:10:12:FF:38: 84. I am
not (at the moment) password
protected. My (small) memory
neither urras
is 868 bytes. The write/read and
power transfers are performed
an RFID chip the size of a grain of
basmati rice? A 2 × 12 mm chip en-
in 15.36 MHz frequency and at a capsulated in biocompatible glass,
distance of less than 5 cm. NFC
(Near Field Communication) is
located between the skin and the
muscle of the triangle formed by
the acronym for this wireless tech- the metacarpal bones of the fore-
nology that allows machines to
recognize each other by radio fre-
finger and thumb of the left hand.
A site chosen for its accessibility
quency. It is a technology designed
for identification (RFID - Radio
Frequency ID), integrated into
the latest models of smartphones,
credit cards and transportation.
In short, a technology that deals
only with knowing that you are you
and, in the same gesture, makes
you feel heartened by the thought
that, indeed, this is the case. Each
electronic chip based on this tech-
nology has a unique identification and dexterity, and for the low risk
number, which cannot be changed of damaging radial and median
or deleted. At least in theory. nerves, blood vessels, tendons or
synovial sheaths. Also a place full
An implant of a free, non-detect- of soft tissue that helps absorb
able version of higher-capacity impacts, and that is at a reasona-
should lead to the consideration of ble distance from the bone against
the unforeseen, non-standard uses which the chip could collide, lead-
of this technology. Transforming ing to a break of the glass capsule.
an identification technology into a In the six weeks following the im-
post-identitarian technology used plantation, the chip has migrated a
to hack what is called human being. little more than half a centimeter
to the vertex of the triangle formed
But why to start a human > plant by the two bones. But there is still
transition process by implanting a good distance from critical points

and it shouldn’t move any more, as
it is now wrapped in collagen gen-
erated by the organism to isolate it,
due to its incapacity to expel it.
Collagen whose formation I accel-
erated, in theory, by taking prena-
tal tablets during the first month.
Ready to give birth to a little green
monster.
My transition process aims for the
loss of my human condition and
the adoption of a new name to be
socially recognized. The chances
that this change might be accepted
by the Civil Registry seem to fall
exponentially to zero. And I’m not
sure whether I want to be a guinea
pig of psychiatrists willing to test
if I feel like a plant trapped in a
human body –which would allow
them to invent a kingdom dysphoria
disorder–, or if my photosynthetic
will is not an extreme manifesta-
tion of a repressed anorexia, or
whether my admiration for vege-
nor anarres open the identity · 21
tative silence is not an evidence of nology like it or not. I’m a dog. Or,
a conspiracy and asocial tendency. I would rather say, a bitch.
Being recognized by NFC devices
is then the first step to be recog- Above all, do not confuse H’s Cy-
nized by humans in my transition borg Manifesto with Hollywood’s
process. A new identity document Terminator manifesto. My will is
has been implanted in my body, not to become more human, but
and I control its data. The ques- less human. It is not really a de-
tion is that it seems that, in order sire to become plant, but rather to
to become a plant, one has to go hybridize with the vegetal, to be-
down the biological pyramid step come with. To transition together.
by step, the great circus of the hi- “Making Kin. Not Babies”. <
erarchy of different life forms.
The first RFID chips have been
tested in a mouse over twenty years
ago. Its use became widespread for
the identification of livestock and
companion species (as well as their
human owners). The first cyborg
was a mouse developed in a labora-
tory in the 1960s in the context of
the space race. Cyborg becoming
is, above all, an animal becoming,
whether transhumanists and their
dreams of improving the human
species through a fusion with tech-
22 · open the pill
2016 The research begins with the
aim of establishing a protocol for
the first chlorophyll intravenous: we
did not find any human references.
Reading of scientific papers: we found
a record of intravenous in medical
practice (Photodynamic Therapy -
PDT) used to treat localized cancers.
Its principle: IV of a photosensitive
molecule and its activation by expos-
ing the area to be treated to light, in
order to cause cell death.
neither urras
OPEN
THE
PILL
These are the first lines of Onco-
MouseTM Journey, the T*P group’s
notebook, where all their Open
the Pill research on photodynamic
therapy and Human Papillomavi-
rus (HPV) is condensed.
At that time, PDT was a medical
technique still difficult to access,
limited to a few private clinics and
some hospitals, especially in Abya
Yala countries, where it had begun
to be implemented due to its low
pharmacological costs. In those
years, the main medical technolo-
gy to treat cancer was chemother-
apy, which depended on the phar-
maceutical industry as well as on
significant medical resources.
We have implied from the notes in
the notebook that the encounter
with PDT not only gave the group
clues about a possible intravenous
chlorophyll, but also brought them
to begin a new parallel biomedical

research—replicating the tools and
protocols of photodynamic thera-
py to treat human papillomavi-
rus condylomas in a DIY/DIWO
manner.
HPV is a sexually transmitted vi-
rus, classified as an STI (Sexually
Transmitted Infection), which was
quite widespread in the population
at the beginning of the 21st centu-
ry, a virus several members of the
T*P group lived with.
2017 The group begins the re-
search at 41°24’31.239’’N,
2°11’57.813’’E, and at
41°23’8.317’’N, 2°11’39.953’’E,
alternating between scientific lab-
oratory and garage/kitchen. In the
OncoMouseTM Journey notebook, this
research is also coded as My disease
is an artistic creation, a name that
was apparently linked to the post-
porn practices of members of the
T*P group, what gives us clues of
a continuity with the documentary
My sexuality is an artistic creation.
Their familiarity with BDSM
practices and the post-porn envi-
nor anarres
ronment could also help explain
their interest in the collective
management of sexual transmis-
sion viruses, as well as their lack of
prejudice and apprehension when
putting bodies on an experimental
table.
In the found files there are several
notes that refer to the complex-
ities of moving forward with the
replication of the PDT protocol
without the use of non-human an-
imals. In order not to experiment
on bodies other than their own,
they began a parallel research at N
41°24’31.239’’N, 2°11’57.813’’E;
at 19°24’55.205’’N, 99°8’
12.274’’W; and at 38°33’45.915’’N,
121°44’18.389’’W, cultivating hu-
man tissue (fibroblasts) acquired
from their own bodies by means of
open the pill · 23
a biopsy, in order to make the tests
on that grown-in-vitro tissue, and
not on non-human animal cells.
In the notebook, we found pro-
tocols to grow in vitro tissue in
which culture food was adminis-
tered from plasma and proteins
from human blood itself. Fetal
bovine serum (FBS - Fetal Bovine
Serum), traditionally used in cell
culture, derived from the blood
drawn from a bovine fetus through
a closed collection system from
the slaughterhouse. At that time,
FBS was the most widely used se-
rum-supplement for in vitro cell
culture in all scientific laborato-
ries on planet Terra. The T*P
group refused to experiment with
non-human animals in any labora-
tory, hence much of their Open the
Pill research shifted to find other
alternatives to the use of FBS.
Eventually, they established a pro-
tocol to replicate photodynamic
therapy and treat papillomavirus
condylomas based on scientific
papers, though without the use of
mice or non-human animal cells. •
24 · open the pill neither urras

your own model with the disease Performativity of laboratory life,

of your choice. Get ready, curves
are coming.
[…] The main objective of My dis-
ease is an artistic creation is to open
the black box, as hackers say, or
to open the pill, as AIDS activists
used to say. It is about replicating
knowledge and making it accessi-
ble. On the other hand, through
self-experimentation and from a
collective perspective, we want to
locally form a critical mass of us-
ers/experts (understanding users
as experts) as well as to establish a
critical and open dialogue with the
health system.
> select It is also about generating a kind
[open the of knowledge that could break ta-
pill / mi en- boos related to the diseased body.
A body is always a sick body, con-
fermedad es sidering disease as part of life itself
una creación can be a creative tool to decon-
struct the normalization processes
artística : mpn produced by the notion of healthy
T*P] / print body. <
low res mode
/ human lec- + privatization of the living
+ creations of “model organisms”
the notions of objectivity and
truth are at stake. What happens
with visual representation systems
(drawing, photo, video, 3D…) that
have shaped a discipline such as
biology and its use as verification
systems (M.F.)? What translation
tools can we implement when talk-
ing about notions such as body,
life, performativity, disease, iden-
tity, individual, collective, autono-
my, experts…? <
> ** C notes:
or my part, I would try to start
with this: not to use bovine serum,
maybe ask for a free sample of HPL
(human platelet lysate - a kind of
bovine serum obtained from human
blood: serum + platelets), and work
with donors and blood separation.
At the same time, look for a vegetal
alternative. In addition, I find this
interesting because it raises ethical/
hygienist/safety issues… regarding
the contagion and the purity of the
blood used to feed cultures. We
should develop this

ture codifi- + trans-species biopolitics

cation @ nei-
ther urras
nor anarres
Anonymous. 2017
Excerpts from the
“OncoMouseTM
Journey” notebook”
> […] a journey through the
biomedical mirror: becoming
OncomouseTM. […] Concept of
model organism, procurement
of cells, patented animals mod-
ified to develop human cancer
cells, possibility of ordering
+ trans-species exist and are manufac- and if we’d want to get out of this…
tured in laboratories like mice with
implanted human cells because this is a market quite
similar to the oncomouse. HPL is
obtained from unused blood draws
> […] self-experimentation from European countries. Also, the
and performativity as research companies that commercialize it make
methods: it clear that it is virus-free blood and
does not come from foreign or non-
How to develop a transdisciplinary European people-: / … hOrroooorr <
research when art is connected
to science? After a historical re-
vision of the separation between
both disciplines, a consequence
of the witch hunt in Europe and
the colonization in Abya Yala, we
will see the concrete effects of this
separation—that is, the creation of
universities, the condemnation of
witchcraft, […]

> HPV
(Human Papillomavirus).
Anonymous Notes 2017
+ The human papillomavirus rep-
resents one of the most common
sexually transmitted diseases
+ There are more than 100 viral
types
+ Most of the described HPVs do
not cause any symptoms
+ Between thirty and forty types
of HPV are normally transmitted
through sexual contact and infect
the anogenital region
+ Most people with HPV do not
know they are infected
+ Most HPV infections in young
people are short term, with little
long-term significance. 70% of
infections disappear within 1 year
and 90% within 2 years
+ Some types of HPV can cause
warts or condylomata (HPV 6 and
11), while others can cause sub-
clinical infections, which could (in
a minority of cases) lead to cervi-
cal, vulvar, vaginal, anus or penis
cancers
+ Infection with HPV is the most
common cause of almost all cases
of cervical cancer, although most
infections with this virus cause no
pathology
+ HPV types 16, 18, 31, 45, are
carcinogenic with high cancer risk.
33, 35, 39, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59 and 66
are low-risk HPV types. This at no
way means that someone infected
with a carcinogenic HPV will de-
velop cancer
nor anarres
+ Do not be afraid, whatever your
sexual practices may be, you can
avoid any cancerous development
of the virus by doing a smear test
every 3 years
+ There are DIY tests to detect
HPV and a lot of documented in-
formation <
> Notes 3:
Anonymous 2017
> On the one hand, we had a work
group of about ten people, includ-
ing people affected by HPV, some
interested in the transdisciplinar-
ity and identity issues addressed
by the project, others interested
in learning about HPV, and also
doctors, patients, performers, biol-
ogists, PhD students, and journal-
ists. Above all, it was a plural group
of identities and people that do
not fit into the binary definitions
of man/ woman, hetero/homo,
healthy/sick, expert/user, looking
for a space where they could dis-
cuss and learn together different
ways of understanding the process-
es that affect our body, the medical
practices, etc., taking into account
different corporealities and identi-
ties and paying special attention to
trans*, crip and functional diversity
processes.
The process resulted in a shared
learning that took various forms:
open the pill · 25
- Learning about HPV: its history,
its presence in the population, the
gender and sexuality dimension,
the socio-economic dimension,
and the different strains of HPV of
which only some are problematic
in terms of health, ways of detec-
tion, treatments and vaccines (with
their pros and cons).
- Learning about PDT: biology,
chemistry, electromagnetic spec-
trum and light.
- Learning about the functioning
of the pharmaceutical and biomed-
ical industry: privatization of living
things, patents, bio-capitalism, co-
lonial dimension, extractivism, use
of other forms of life, persistence
of the rigidity of gender and race
categories in scientific products
and research, ecological cost…
- Collective learning of laboratory
work. <
26 · open the seed
We know that in 2019 the T*P
group started working with Ar-
temisia annua, a plant commonly
called Sweet Wormwood, or Sweet
Annie, its English nickname. A
plant used by Chinese medicine
for more than two millennia in the
form of an infusion to treat inter-
mittent fevers and malaria.
This work was carried out in a bio-
technology laboratory company at
47°17’48.046’’N, 2°30’35.319’’E,
which developed a technology that
neither urras
OPEN
THE
SEED
allows for better preservation of
the properties of cryogenic sub-
stances.
In 2018, a research team from the
Democratic Republic of the Con-
go carried out a clinical trial on
957 patients, with which it demon-
strated the superiority of decoc-
tions of Artemisia annua and Ar-
temisia afra (African version of A.
annua) over the artemisinin-based
combination therapy (ACT),
the treatment preconized by the
WHO to cure malaria (99.5% vs.
79.5%). ACT tablets are based on
the combination of an active prin-
ciple of the plant, artemisinin, with
another molecule, to reduce the
possibility of parasite resistance
responsible for the disease. The
Chinese researcher Y T was the
one who managed to isolate and
name the artemisinin molecule in
1969. She focused her research
on traditional Chinese medicine
remedies, after finding references
to the plant Artemisia annua (ab-

sinthe) as a good remedy against
fevers –a possible symptom of ma-
laria– in a 1,300-year-old book.
She was awarded the Nobel Prize
in Physiology and Medicine in
2015 for this research, making her
the first Chinese woman to receive
it. It was also the first time that the
Nobel Foundation recognized the
merit of traditional Chinese med-
icine. An alternative vision, advo-
cated by the Pan-African alliance,
thinks that it is the plant polyther-
apy what makes it effective against
the disease and what reduces the
risk of resistance. One argument in
favor of this is that the Artemisia
afra variety does not contain arte-
misinin but it is nevertheless effec-
tive in treating malaria.
nor anarres
In 2019 at 47°17’48.046’’N,
2°30’35.319’’E, the T*P group
proceeded to cryogenize Artemisia
annua seeds in a liquid medium at
-196° C. The spheres surrounding
the seeds were composed of wa-
ter, plant nutrients, and depleted
soil-regenerating microorganisms.
Some of them had been encapsu-
lated in calcium alginate in order
to be transported without the need
to maintain the cold chain.
In 2032 the Pan-African Alliance
condemned molecular colonialism
and declared the WHO institution
non grata in the African conti-
nent, since it considered it under
the control of the pharmaceutical
industry. The Alliance called for
open the seed · 27
the creation of a new transnation-
al body where the various medical
cultures of the planet would coex-
ist, and whose actions would be co-
ordinated according to the needs
of those affected.
It is also known in 2037 that a
remote connection point to the
Intranet Mycorrhiza was estab-
lished, by means of an Artemisia
annua plant whose seed had been
cryogenized in 2019. The pictures
below show the cryogenization
process and the recipe for the en-
capsulation in calcium alginate. •
28 · open the seed ni urras
ni anarres open the seed · 29

> [memories
of alien
travel / 2016
> 2017]
Anonymous. 2036
- fragments -
> I look back 20 years af-
ter that, at the beginnings of
Trans*Plant, and think about
our first goal of performing a
first IV in K. The first thing
that comes to mind is green.
Green as a translation process,
a concept, a symbol. A simple
color at first glance; literally.
The thread of a project whose
main question could be: who
would be able to establish the
consequences of an intravenous
chlorophyll without having any
reference of previous experi-
ence? (…)
> Early 2016. Reading res-
idence at 48°53’2.161’’N,
2°21’2.195’’E. Green as an an-
thropomorphic color associated
with the vegetal, in charge of
representing the natural in its
most radical otherness. The color
of the alien.
> End of 2016. 47°4’33,557’’N,
2°22’56.776’’E. First action for
this beginning of the transition
process: change of name, implan-
tation of an NFC chip in K’s left
hand, first chlorophyll tattoo. The
imperceptible and the visible.
> The question of whether K has
turned green is a recurring one.
As if contact with a different life
form would automatically led to
a transfer of pigments that would
contaminate the initial color. The
visual recognition criteria are the
basis on which power relations
have been established, the valid-
ity of certain bodies established
as the norm against others. (…)
The artistic practice initially pro-
duced this visual perception in a
pictorial way, through a mixture
of pigments. A model that implies
defining the visual not by the light
emitted, but by the reflection of an
object.
> The first exchanges with bi-
omedical professionals seem to
announce serious complications:
non-solubility of chlorophyll in
water and, therefore, in blood; risk
of stroke; totally unknown effects
on the immune system; risk of an-
aphylactic shock; risk of diabetes
from glucose production as a result
of photosynthesis.
> 2017. Research at
41°24’31.239’’N, 2°11’57.813’’E;
and 41°23’8.317’’N, 2°11’39.953’’E,
in order to replicate the tools and
protocols of the medical practice
(Photodynamic Therapy) used to
treat localized cancers. Its princi-
ple: intravenous of a photosensi-
tive molecule and its activation by
exposing the area to be treated to
light. Chlorophyll cannot produce
photosynthesis isolated from plant
cells. (…) Good news: there is no
risk of diabetes. But the energy re-
ceived is transformed in this con-
text into reactive oxygen that caus-
es the death of the exposed cells.
The action at 46°3’36.804’’N,
14°30’16.467’’E, therefore, should
be performed without light, which
is no longer color, but energy. A
process invisible to human per-
ception. All these molecules have
an absorption spectrum in red and
blue, which falls almost to zero in
green. We see plants as green be-
cause they reject that visible part of
the electromagnetic spectrum. We
associate them with what prevents
them from living. […] <
 MMXXXVIII
> The cards predicted the Internet crash, and the prediction was real. The situation is chaotic.
There are no resources to survive and no clear information. There is talk of a volatile molecule
that has killed some people. They also say we won’t be able to keep being communicated as before.
/ I search for information in older oracles. I will use the Runes and the I Ching.

Asking the runes about the molecule. Asking the I Ching about future
communication.

I picked up Odin’s rune. It could indicate that
what is being lived or what is happening is kar-
mic. / It is an opportunity to discover inherit-
ed lies. / The second stone is Elhaz, it speaks
of self-preservation. Self-defense mechanisms
arise naturally, granting the necessary pro-
tection. Future must be ensured and not be
squandered. / The third rune is Is, it speaks of
stagnation and paralysis. The circumstances are
controlled by fragility and rigidity. The situa-
tion tends to be one of convalescence. / This
spread makes me think that the molecule has
served a specific purpose, but its future is un-
certain. Is is freezing. How to know if ice is
eternal or it will turn into water once again?
Water never stops, it always finds a way to come
through.
Two hexagrams. Lake and Heaven into the up-
per trigrams. First hexagram: Break-through.
Changing line #6. The lake has risen up to
heaven; and Force, the Creative. / The first
hexagram is the announcement, the bursting. A
change of course, of times, of life. It’s time to
clean yourself and your environment. It is a risky
and difficult maneuver, but healthy and neces-
sary. Eradicate the evil: Pressure builds up until
it breaks through and makes you take action. /
Six at the top means: the decision, advancement
has been reached. Victory has been achieved.
Everything seems to be in order, but you need
to examine the situation until you eradicate the
remnant of the evil. If you overlook it, it will
succeed in escaping and everything will start
over. / Second hexagram: it is time to act, to
create. It is a strong time. Like the growth in
the spring. / It is pure driving force, the seed,
the idea. Time, origin, light. / To begin with,
to engender, to spiritually enlighten, to lead, to
invent. Go back to nature and learn from its in-
finite creativity. Information that does not be-
long to us is over.
We shall only have the needed information.

APRIL 2038
Thanks to some documents provided by the T*P group, we were able to verify that the use of various predictive and/or divination
methods was a common practice among the network they belong to. These used them to obtain information about the near or
distant future, to resolve conflicts and solve problems, as well as to structure some of their gatherings or reflect on important
issues. From all the found material, we have selected two spreads: one made in October, 2036, and the other one in April, 2038.
We have selected them because of how stunning their predictions turned out to be. We know they were both made by the same
person, a witch who lived at 34°39’1.968’’S, 58°34’56.094’’W, who laid out all the spreads while smoking leaves of Sweet Annie.
trans*plant manifesto neither urras nor anarres biohacking journal

trans*plant
[…] The biggest problem with mainstream
ecology is that it is based on the notion of na-
ture, a notion historically created to separate
humanity from the rest of the universe, estab-
lishing a colonial relationship with it. The di-
chotomy culture/nature structures an infinite
list of other dichotomies of modern western
thought: man/woman, white/non-white, hete-
ro/homo, science/witchcraft, adult/child, nor-
mal/ abnormal… The second term of each
dichotomy is associated with nature and, there-
fore, with the same regime of violence. A heter-
otrophy carried out to its maximum allows for
the establishment of a necropolitics that has lit-
erally decided to consume everything. Protect-
ing nature therefore seems like a bad idea… It
is quite curious that it has come to be accepted
that an individual delimited by a skin envelope
constitutes a living being, but the planet as a
whole is not a living organism […].
Note: The existence of two versions of
the Trans*Plant Manifesto is reported;
the one presented here are fragments of
the first one. It is estimated that it was
drafted at the end of 2018. It appears
that it was distributed almost exclusively
within the biohackers network. In its
edition of July 28, 2038, the journal
specialized on open biotechnology
Neither Urras Nor Anarres mentions a
second version, written that same year,
which describes the near end of the
network –which at that time was called
the Internet– and all the technologies
dependent on it. What was considered
by biohackers the ideal time to start the
project that was been developed for two
decades—the connection of a private
connection point to Mycorrhiza. And that
an intravenous chlorophyll protocol was
ready to be administered to the involved
human operators. To date, no version of
the second manifesto coded to be legible
to humans has been found.

[…] To be able to think of a non-anthropocen-

tric ecology we need to move from identities
based on essences to identities based on rela-
tionships. A human > plant transition process
that includes a chlorophyll intravenous proto-
col opens the discussion on the identity system
at stake through the fantasies, fears and judg-
ments that generates. A process of self-exper-
imentation that is not at all individual, since
the people who accompany her also travel with
her. Obtaining a pure molecule of chlorophyll
raises the same obstacles as obtaining testos-
terone on the part of both the pharmaceutical
and biomedical industry as well as of the legal
and health system. It is the whole life which
is patented […].

manifesto