The Archive That Isn’t

In Afterfield, nothing happens. But unlike Vacuity, everything is already after. There are no events. No beginnings. No endings. No transitions. Yet the entire domain is saturated with the character of having-followed-something. Not memory of an event, because no event occurred. Not residue of a process, because no process ran. But ontological after-ness as a primitive condition. Everything exists as if it were the remainder of something else. Time does not exist, but consequence does. Not consequence of anything in particular, but consequence as a structural flavor of reality. There is no before. There is no during. There is only the sense of having-been-conditioned. Space does not exist as extension. It exists as distribution of aftermath. Some regions are heavier with after-ness. Others are thinner, closer to pure null. Nearness is similarity of post-condition. Distance is disparity of how completely something feels like it should have followed from something else. Causality does no...