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A conceptual entity where holes generate new polytical activities and surfaces that dissolve traditional boundaries between solid and void.
2 chapters across 1 book
1. As a compositional entity whose behavior (topological changes, transformations, motions, folds, etc.) can induce changes to the compositional side of the void through Surface Dynamics (or superficialities, as Cassati and Varzi call them in their holey treatise Holes and Other Superficialities).This chapter explores the dynamic relationship between holes, surfaces, and the void, emphasizing how topological changes in solid structures induce transformations in the compositional void through surface dynamics. It argues that holes disrupt the traditional solidity (solidus) by introducing new, itinerant surfaces that challenge hegemonic ground orders and enable complex ecological interactions between solid and void. The chapter also distinguishes two types of active surfaces—surface-supporters and surface-transmitters—that mediate the interface between cavity and crust, highlighting the surface as the primary site of interaction, transformation, and transmission between solid and void.
1. In countries with detailed homeland security protocols or relatively high levels of alertness, where ground or aerial operations (hostile, subversive or stealth activities) cannot be conducted, the emergence of intricate poromechanical entities escalates, and cannot be avoided. In such countries, the distribution of illegal immigrants or smuggled products such as drugs and weapons around the border regions does not proceed by way of patterns of activities on the surface, but through the formation and the architecture of nested holeyness beneath the ground. Activities or lines of movement (tactics) cannot be separated from the architecture of such ( )hole complexes. According to military experts or urban planners with military educations, criminal and hostile activities can no longer be explained, analyzed or traced in terms of land, aerial and water levels. These activities conform only (paranoically speaking) to structures of vast underground nemat-spaces and their constantly displacing and vermiculating lines of emergence (schizoid formations of surfaces). The distribution, escalation and diffusion of complicities is identical to different aspects of hole-trafficking. For military experts, the terror market is simultaneously that of the porosities of earth. Cross-border wormholes under the US-Mexico border, tunnels under Gaza-Egypt, and all other examples of hole trafficking, confound the polarities of surface globalization and its Politico-military facets. The economic and power formations of clandestine Guerilla-states, anti-State movements and ambiguously Imperialist states configure themselves according to the poromechanics of war.This chapter explores the concept of 'poromechanics' as a framework for understanding clandestine and hostile activities that evade surface-level detection through complex underground networks, or '( )hole complexes.' It analyzes how military tactics, geopolitical conflicts, and economic-political formations—especially in border regions and oil-rich deserts—are shaped by subterranean architectures and nomadic movements, highlighting the mutual contamination between states and desert-nomads through oil-driven poromechanics. The chapter also discusses the paradoxical and treacherous nature of these underground spaces as both counter-hegemonic and hegemonic forces influencing global war, terror, and power dynamics.