“‘The wasteland grows.’ It means, the devastation is growing wider. Devastation is more than destruction. Devastation is more unearthly than destruction. Destruction only sweeps aside all that has grown up or been built up so far; but devastation blocks all future growth and prevents all building. Devastation is more unearthly than mere destruction. Mere destruction sweeps aside all things including even nothingness, while devastation on the contrary establishes and spreads everything that blocks and prevents. The African Sahara is only one kind of waste land. The devastation of the earth can easily go hand in hand with a guaranteed supreme living standard for man, and just as easily with the organized establishment of a uniform state of happiness for all men. Devastation can be the same as both, and can haunt us everywhere in the most unearthly way by keeping itself hidden. Devastation does not just mean a slow sinking into the sands. Devastation is the high-velocity expulsion of Mnemosyne.”[1]

Logistics is the logic of a postmodern future. A forever recurring pastiche of administrative management and ideological machines[1] churning out data points. The multiplication of problems running beyond logistical control suggests hard limits to the possibilities politics presents, whether on environmental, virological or ontological registers.

Transformative semalgebraic ontology posits transformation as “the primary ontological primitive: to be is to be transformable, and what we call entities are stable regions within fields of admissible variation”[1]. Bonisoli begins constructing a semantic algebra to understand the nature of transformations, looking toward a general apparatus that incorporates numerical-quantitative frameworks into a semanticisation of ontological transformations. Enframing this apparatus in a set of nested convergences, invoking Euclidean geometry as a fold of Riemannian space, there is an attempt to move beyond metaphor into a fully semantic-algebraic topology of relations and conditions.