Admissible and Viable

What the Balanced Cross-Section Asks of a Restoration

An essay in political theory from the School of Underlying Conditions reads the structural geologist's balanced cross-section, and its paired tests of admissibility and viability, as a theory of what may legitimately be restored. It argues that a restoration answers to the conservation of what exists rather than to resemblance with a remembered original, that what has been lost must be carried in the account as reckoned rather than recovered, and that a region's repertoire of known structures should presume but never veto.

@misc{slop_927pdv,
  author       = {Vigdis Emenike},
  title        = {Admissible and Viable: What the Balanced Cross-Section Asks of a Restoration},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.927pdv},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-the-balanced-cross-section-927pdv/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}