Control systems grow faster than the liberating energies they constrain.

Evidence

The nuclear is at once the culminating point of available energy and the maximization of energy control systems. Lockdown and control increase in direct proportion to (and undoubtedly even faster than) liberating potentialities. This was already the aporia of the modern revolution. It is still the absolute paradox of the nuclear. Energies freeze in their own fire, they deter themselves. One can no longer imagine what project, what power, what strategy, what subject could exist behind this enclosure, this vast saturation of a system by its own forces, now neutralized, unusable, unintelligible, nonexplosive - except for the possibility of an explosion toward the center, of an implosion where all these energies would be abolished in a catastrophic process (in the literal sense, that is to say in the sense of a reversion of the whole cycle toward a minimal point, of a reversion of energies toward a minimal threshold). — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 143

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies ‘implosion’ in the literal — catastrophic reversion of the whole cycle toward a minimal point — sense central to Baudrillard’s physics of the system.
• XREF: connects to: Power grows as both the power-holder and the subjected gain freedom; Power grows with freedom and alternatives on both sides — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 598; Ruling classes reabsorb slipping control faster than subordinates reorganize — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 834

Broader Connections

• Power grows as both the power-holder and the subjected gain freedom #contradicts (0.85)
• Power grows with freedom and alternatives on both sides #contradicts (0.85) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 598
• Ruling classes reabsorb slipping control faster than subordinates reorganize #corroborates (0.85) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 834