For this case study, Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi present Labour Lung, part of a series of works that have been ongoing since 2017. Labour Lung is an audio installation that simulates the changing sounds of a lung affected by the continuous inhalation of opium. Depicting the function of inhalation as an apparatus of the colonial opium trade, the work examines the link between the rise of opium smoking in the nineteenth century and the handing over of our total biological and cognitive functions to capitalist technologies.