Chaos Bound Pub Date : 2018-12-31 DOI: 10.7591/9781501722950-012

{"title":"10 Conclusion: Chaos and Culture: Postmodernism(s) and the Denaturing of Experience","authors":"","doi":"10.7591/9781501722950-012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501722950-012","url":null,"abstract":"Wh a t in the present cultural moment has energized chaos as an important concept? Why does it appear as a pivotal concept for us here and now? I conjecture that disorder has become a focal point for contemporary theories because it offers the possibility of escaping from what are increasingly perceived as coercive structures of order. But in privileging disorder, theorists cannot extract themselves from the weight of their disciplinary traditions, even if they want to (and scientists, for the most part, do not want to). Thus there arise complex layerings in which traces of old paradigms are embedded within new, resistances to mastery are enfolded with impulses toward mastery, totalizing moves are made in the service of local knowledge. The convoluted ambiquity that arises from these layerings is the leitmotif of this chapter; it is deeply characteristic of what I shall call cultural postmodernism. For it to come into being, earlier paradigms first had to be understood as constructions rather than statements of fact. I define cultural postmodernism as the realization that what has always been thought of as the essential, unvarying components of human experience are not natural facts of life but social constructions.1 We can think of this as a denaturing process. To denature","PeriodicalId":133871,"journal":{"name":"Chaos Bound","volume":"531 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123085194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Illustrations 插图

Chaos Bound Pub Date : 2018-12-31 DOI: 10.7591/9781501722950-001

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Frontmatter

Chaos Bound Pub Date : 2018-12-31 DOI: 10.7591/9781501722950-fm

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5 Chaos as Dialectic: Stanislaw Lem and the Space of Writing 作为辩证法的混沌:斯坦尼斯拉夫·莱姆与写作空间

Chaos Bound Pub Date : 2018-12-31 DOI: 10.7591/9781501722950-007

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7 Chaos and Poststructuralism 混乱与后结构主义

Chaos Bound Pub Date : 2018-12-31 DOI: 10.7591/9781501722950-009

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2 Self-reflexive Metaphors in Maxwell’s Demon and Shannon’s Choice: Finding the Passages 麦克斯韦的《恶魔》和香农的《选择》中的自反隐喻:寻找通道

Chaos Bound Pub Date : 2018-12-31 DOI: 10.7591/9781501722950-004

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1 Introduction: The Evolution of Chaos 1引言:混沌的进化

Chaos Bound Pub Date : 2018-12-31 DOI: 10.7591/9781501722950-003

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6 Strange Attractors: The Appeal of Chaos 奇怪的吸引力:混沌的吸引力

Chaos Bound Pub Date : 2018-12-31 DOI: 10.7591/9781501722950-008