Infrastructural Sympoiesis: pipe dreams within medical streams
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Half of the world’s insulin (and an increasing amount of the increasingly desirable ozempic) is produced in a small industrial town in Denmark called Kalundborg. The sheer scale of the industry is reflected through the imposition that industry takes upon the site, both in terms of branding, research, and volume of urban presence. A “Kalundborg Symbiosis” brand has emerged, wherein the site’s myriad factories send each other waste materials loudly and proudly, spurring interest from industrialists the world over.

As an urban presence, production and refinement defines the city. 9% of the whole country’s emissions and a wide share of its resistance to global inflation pressures come from this eco-industrial park. 



Resources are extracted in a way that almost totally insulates the actors involved from any criticsm—medicine is good, optimization is good, and so growth, defined as more an more airtight capture and re-capture of resources, is good.


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