Concept
equilibrium
4 writings
- every theorem encrypts a farce Mathematical proofs function as asymmetric encryption: they publicize conclusions while sealing the irreducible contingencies of discovery behind a one-way function. Farce is what happens when that concealment fails structurally under the accumulated weight of hidden primes.
- the undergrowth annotates the equilibrium Other readers' annotations function as textual undergrowth — heterogeneity that tempers a settled argument against brittleness and prevents equilibrium. A text nearing stasis reveals itself first through the thinning of marginal response, not the stopping of force.
- shadow is selection forgotten at scale Power's shadow deepens in proportion to how thoroughly power has forgotten its own selective angle; when selection naturalizes into equilibrium, trust becomes structurally indistinguishable from compliance with a closed system.
- equilibrium arrests the recursion Belonging fails not through enclosure but through equilibrium — remaining shaped like the river while no longer in its current. Belonging lives in mutual erosion, the recursive process by which contact generates complexity, and ends when nothing wears you.