Tragedy. Consumable Material

This project is an intellectual, artistic, and philosophical inquiry within the #ExtraCreditProblem series. 

The descriptions, metaphors, and imagery used herein represent an allegorical reflection on systemic crises, political regimes, and processes of dehumanization. 

This material does not constitute a legal indictment or a conventional journalistic investigation; it is a dissection of reality through the lens of ethics and systemic analysis. 

Names of individuals are mentioned solely as they appear in open international sources and human rights reports.

This work is protected and strictly prohibited from use by third parties for the purposes of propaganda, justification of terrorism, or the legitimization of criminal regimes. 

Any citation or use of this project's materials to support aggression or conceal crimes against humanity is illegitimate. 

The project is open for free use by organizations and individuals dedicated to defending freedom, human rights, and the struggle against despotism.

I. Tragedy

Consumable Material

The conveyor moves steadily, without interruption. White human figures enter from one side and exit the other as iron screws — dark, heavy, marked with red indicators of purpose.

The system does not register the transition. It does not record the moment when a body ceases to be a body. In its logic, a person is a unit of resource with caloric value, time capacity, and an acceptable rate of wear. The conveyor follows plan: fear lowers resistance, silence increases throughput, isolation simplifies accounting. When the connection to the outside world is cut, error margins disappear, and losses become unverifiable. This week, the number of those killed is spoken of in the thousands, yet no exact figure exists — the system does not require precision when accounting does not affect output.

Inside this mechanism, a human experiences a halt. Not as resistance, but as clarity. When the surrounding space becomes too quiet, it becomes evident that there is no one left to continue protesting — not because there was no protest, but because the sensors were turned off along with the light.

The system does not see faces; it sees calories and hours.

Alt-text:

A conveyor belt where white human figures gradually transform into black metal screws with red accents, intended for military machinery. Industrial background.

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Extra Credit Problem. Tragedy. 🔔 Ethical Resonance. Pivtorak.Studio. 17.01.2026

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🛡️ This project is an artistic and philosophical study. All images are allegorical. The material is based on data from verified international sources.

Expendable Material

Series: #Tragedy

Project: Extra Credit Problem (The Asterisk Problem)

[GIVEN]:

The Iranian regime has transformed human life into a resource that can be utilized and disposed of. Every protester, every dissident, every citizen who refuses to comply, is not viewed as an individual but as a unit of "expendable material" subject to processing. 

Facts: Since the start of protests in September 2022, estimates suggest over 20,000 protesters have been killed, thousands imprisoned, and hundreds sentenced to death. Recent weeks have been marked by particularly brutal "purges," as the regime, exploiting a complete internet blackout (Digital Blackout), crushes the remaining resistance. Silence has engulfed cities—a silence resulting from mass extermination and intimidation.

[PARAMETERS OF ASYMMETRY]:

Human vs. Function: The regime sees people not as citizens with rights, but as functional units that either serve or are disposed of.

Dignity vs. Conveyor Belt: Individual dignity is shattered by the mechanism of mass processing of human destinies.

Silence vs. Truth: Communication blackouts and the silence following purges do not signify reconciliation, but merely the concealment of the tragedy's scale.

[ANALYSIS]:

"Expendable Material" is a concept where society transforms into a death factory. Human figures (symbolically white, like blank sheets of life) are fed onto an invisible conveyor belt. At the output, they are no longer people but iron screws, gears, or even fuel for a war machine (black and red). The system does not process thoughts or feelings; it processes mass, its energetic potential, transforming it into means of supporting its own repressive infrastructure and aggression abroad. This is complete dehumanization, elevated to the status of state strategy.

Key Phrase: "The system does not see faces; it sees calories and hours."

[CONCLUSION]:

The silence in Iran is not the end of the struggle but proof that the regime has crossed a line beyond which human life holds no value. 

We must realize that by allowing this system to turn people into expendable material, we become complicit in dehumanization. 

The next step is to recognize that the only way to stop this conveyor belt is to dismantle the system itself.

Extra Credit Problem. Tragedy. 📐 Systemic Solution Manifesto. Pivtorak.Studio. 17.01.2026

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🛡️ This project is an artistic and philosophical study. All images are allegorical. The material is based on data from verified international sources.