Chaos bound

Chaos bound: orderly disorder in contemporary literature and science

by Hayles, N. Katherine

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Chaos Bound will contribute to and enliven current debates among chaos theorists, cultural critics and cultural historians, critical theorists, literary critics interested in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, researchers in nonlinear dynamics, and others concerned with the relation between science and culture. -- back cover.

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  • Full title :Chaos bound : orderly disorder in contemporary literature and science / N. Katherine Hayles.

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Chaos Bound will contribute to and enliven current debates among chaos theorists, cultural critics and cultural historians, critical theorists, literary critics interested in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, researchers in nonlinear dynamics, and others concerned with the relation between science and culture. -- back cover.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:1990.

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  • Description:xvi, 309 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0801422620, 9780801422621, 0801497019, 9780801497018
  • oclc:ocm20357616
  • LC Classification:PN771
  • Dewey Decimal:809/.04

Table of Contents

Introduction : the evolution of chaos -- Part I : something out of nothing -- Self-reflexive metaphors in Maxwell's demon and Shannon's choice : finding the passages -- The necessary gap : chaos as self in the education of Henry Adams -- From epilogue to prologue : chaos and the arrow of time -- Chaos as dialectic : Stanislaw Lem and the space of writing -- Part II : the figure in the carpet -- Strange attractors : the appeal of chaos -- Chaos and poststructuralism -- The politics of chaos : local knowledge versus global theory -- Fracturing forms : recuperation and simulation in the golden notebook -- Conclusion : chaos and culture : postmodernism(s) and the denaturing of experience.

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17.90 literature in relation with other… 33.20 modern classical physics: general Centre for Hyperincursion and Anticipat… Chaos Chaos dans la littérature Chaostheorie Chaotic behavior in systems in literatu… Criticism, interpretation, etc Geschichte 1900-1990 Geschichte 1900-2000 Kultur Letterkunde Literatur Literature, Modern Literature, Modern -- History and criti… Littérature - 20e siècle - Histoire et … Littérature -- Histoire et critique. --… Natuurkunde Ordnung Unordnung

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Hayles, N. Katherine

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