Lingchi; How Nike, Shell & Co Are Slowly Killing The Incumbent Utility.
5 min readJan 24, 2018
Lingchi
Lingchi, a form of torture and execution used in China from 900 CE until it was banned in 1905, means death by a thousand cuts. It was a slow and lingering death, administered by slicing and cutting parts of the body of anyone accused of treason, while the accused was tied to a pole. While it’s no longer happening (I hope), it was…