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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...

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Hayles’s point is that the almost simultaneous appearance of interest in complex systems across many disciplines—physics, mathematics, biology, information theory, literature, literary theory—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 * American Literature *

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    Publisher: Cornell University Press
    Publication Date: 15/08/2018
    ISBN13: 9781501727924, 978-1501727924
    ISBN10: 1501727923
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    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...

    Trade Review

    Hayles’s point is that the almost simultaneous appearance of interest in complex systems across many disciplines—physics, mathematics, biology, information theory, literature, literary theory—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 * American Literature *

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