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cybernetics

The Strait of Hormuz: Cascades, Delay and the Architecture of a Crisis

The current US President destabilised one of the most tightly coupled junctions on Earth, then seemed surprised when the consequences spread. The deeper problem is that political, ideological and socioeconomic systems often reproduce themselves through the disorder they create.

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Philosophy

śūnyatā and the generative logic of absence

Absence is not a flaw in the structure. Absence is the engine.

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cybernetics

recursion, technically

Field logic describes the recursively antisymmetrical organisation of difference by which systems continually reshape the probability of their own continuity.

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cybernetics

strait of hormuz

The more instability surrounds the Strait of Hormuz, the more valuable it becomes. The paradox is that a prolonged conflict may be increasing the strategic importance of one of Iran’s most powerful sources of leverage.