![]() ![]() On the same day, 20-year-old junior engineer Xiang Kairan from Shenzhen is among a group that sits down to tea with Provincial Communications Administration officials and a local leader from the telecom company China Unicom. Briefly distracted, Chloe’s mum takes a photograph of her daughter and shares it to a chat group in Chinese-owned social media app WeChat. Her mother turns from her own PC and suggests-in Mandarin/Dialect hybrid-Chloe’s social time is up. Eliminated, exasperated, she posts an ironic emote parody on TikTok. Still in a semi ‘Rona Iso’ 10-year-old Australian Chloe Yingchao is playing Fortnite. What follows is a speculative, fictional story. Consciousness is another limit upon which total war will press, and when war has co-opted consciousness what will we do-or even be? Adverserial relations will thus multiple via biolocial processes of mutation, while digital war’s front lines will recede to reflevive, recursive interstices. Sovereignty will not just be defined in the ontology of mathematical alterity. From this black hole of Xenowar will pulse another type of Un-War, fought at the edges of the incomputable, an axiomatic reboot of Non-Turing mathematics and non-Abelian anyons of topological quantum computing. State and Stack firewalls will constitute cosmotechnic event horizons of compression. At other scales friction will spiral in recursions of homotopic functionalities across Stack infrastructures and diastereotopic data planes of invertible war: ‘recurgency’ will replace insurgency. Some Stacks may be enantiotopic to each other, mirror images but not superimposable. Equally, an inability to cut and paste borders of Stack topology will accentuate disconnection. Westphalian deformations will increase turbulence at higher manifolds and dimensions. Topological equivalence will mean the continuous mapping of States within Stack homeomorphism via oscillations of stretching and contraction. This deforms war’s properties while preserving its form: asymmetry will be expressed as inhuman scales, and feedback loops will redefine geopolitics. Simultaneously, the technological and biological merge, transforming conflict into three dimensions in a way that emphasises connection and shape, not geometry. ‘Users’ are a ‘standing reserve’ for the Gestell. Combatants emerge from corporations and nations as the understanding of war as human activity evolves into the realisation that all human activity is now war. War persists, but Clausewitz’s wunderliche Dreifaltigkeit morphs to become topological. Xenowar is the Clausewitzian trinity spun in recursive loops of alterity, where conflict diagonalizes into an inhuman, alien cognition. ‘Xeno’ because this war incorporates the alien and the Other into a new, dynamic, topological trinity. What has war become in an age of recursive computation and the globalised technobiome? Combining speculative fiction, Clausewitzian theory and metadisciplinary analysis, this exploratory piece outlines the emergence of a war that is both new and familiar-Xenowar. ![]()
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