Chaos Bound (eBook)

Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science

N. Katherine Hayles (Autor)

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2018
330 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-2296-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Hayles’s point is that the almost simultaneous appearance of interest in complex systems across many disciplinesâ•physics, mathematics, biology, information theory, literature, literary theoryâ•signals a profound paradigm and epistemological shift. She calls the new paradigm ‘orderly disorder.’ This is a timely, informative, and enormously thought-provoking book. — Nancy Craig Simmons â• American Literature 

N. Katherine Hayles here investigates parallels between contemporary literature and critical theory and the science of chaos. She finds in both scientific and literary discourse new interpretations of chaos, which is seen no longer as disorder but as a locus of maximum information and complexity. She examines structures and themes of disorder in The Education of Henry Adams, Doris Lessing’s Golden Notebook, and works by Stanislaw Lem. Hayles shows how the writings of poststructuralist theorists including Barthes, Lyotard, Derrida, Serres, and de Man incorporate central features of chaos theory.

Autor

N. Katherine Hayles is James B. Duke Professor of Literature at Duke University. She is the author of many books, including How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis, Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary, and My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.3.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 9 illustrations
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Barthes • chaos and culture • Chaos and Order • chaos and poststructuralism • chaos theory • chaos theory in literature • chaos theory literary criticism • Chaotic Behavior • Chaotic behavior in systems • chaotic behavior in systems literature • Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science • Critical theory • Cultural Studies • de Man • Derrida • Digital Media • Digital Media Studies • explain chaos • Golden Notebook • interdisciplinary criticism • interdisciplinary theory • interpretations of chaos • literary chaos theory • literary criticism philosophy • literary discourse • literary philosophy • literary themes of disorder • Literary Theory • Literature and Science • Lyotard • maxwells demon and its history • modern literature theory • New Literary History • new literary theory • orderly disorder • Postmodernism • Postmodern Theory • poststructuralist theorists • science behind chaos theory • science of chaos • Semiotics and Theory • Serres • Stanislaw Lem • The Education of Henry Adams • themes of disorder • theories of science • theory, technology, and culture • the politics of chaos • transformation of humanity in the digital age
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-2296-4 / 1501722964
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-2296-7 / 9781501722967