Can the Eschatological Category Ignite Without Humans? — Future-Configuration Generation, Reality Penetration, Recursive Circulation, Xeno-Capital, and Xenoscience

This paper asks whether eschatological organization can emerge without human subjects, religious communities, or inherited doctrines of salvation, judgment, apocalypse, or finality. Rather than presupposing eschatology as a specifically theological category, it decomposes eschatological formations into operational relations involving terminal-state projection, future-directed weighting, irreversible transition, preservation, extinction, resource allocation, and the generation of successor configurations. The central question is whether comparable relations can become non-redundant in artificial, autonomous, institutional, ecological, or posthuman systems even when no human agent conceptualizes them as eschatological. Future-configuration generation describes processes through which present operations alter the set and weighting of reachable future states. Reality penetration tracks how these locally generated orientations propagate into material, informational, economic, technological, or institutional arrangements, while recursive circulation identifies the return of those altered arrangements into subsequent conditions of prediction, allocation, and intervention. Xeno-Capital provides a case in which resource flows can privilege particular future configurations without requiring human-centered narratives of historical destiny. Xenoscience generalizes the analysis by asking when eschatological vocabulary becomes explanatorily non-redundant and when the same operations can be described without it. The broader claim is not that machines or nonhuman systems possess eschatology, but that the operational structures historically compressed by eschatological concepts may recur after human-specific theological conditions have disappeared.