Entropy, Law, and Funambulism

This piece is more reminiscent of a stream of consciousness than a discussion on entropy, analogising the intriguing applicability of thermodynamism in relation to understandings of law, lines, and ex-tant resistances. To speak of exerted energy, that which is wasted in the machinations of a seemingly closed system, is prescient in a time of disruption and apoplexia. Beyond the aesthetic nerve that enticed the writing of this piece on entropy, there are legal and politi-cal analogies and extant anxieties that lend an overwhelming famil-iarity to this encounter with thermodynamic processes. Entropy is a measurement, a method of quantifying energy that is available for unuseful work within a thermodynamic process. Without involving the reader entirely with the science or statistical mechanics of en-tropy (and within the bounds of what this non-scientific author knows of the phenomenon), entropy is an accumulated inefficient resource that gathers as a machine or engine has reached its ‘theoretical maximum efficiency,’ the energy thus having to be exorcised, or ‘dis-sipated’ in the form of waste heat.