Chaos Imagined by Meisel, Martin -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Frontispiece Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Ω. Uncertainty and Complexity: An Untethered Epilogue

After Entropy Incompleteness and Incongruity The Message of the Quantum Lost Horizons Chaos Everywhere Looking Askance Chaosmos

1. Shaping Chaos 2. Nothing and Something

Something out of Nothing? Nothing in Something “The Nurse of Becoming” Saying Nothing Nothing as Nothing The Middle of Nowhere Positive Negation

3. Number: The One and the Many

Division and Multiplication Sophocles’ Thought Experiment Imagining the Worst Taking the Measure One World or Many? “Number-Worlds” A Glance Into the Abyss Truth and Poetry Sightlines Everything by One and One

4. Carnival

Monstrous Confusion Going to the Fair Dreamworks Lords of Misrule Parody Refram’d The Wild God

5. War

Representation

Conscripting War Emblematics

Condition

Soldiers and Peasants: Callot Goya’s Nightmare Dix and the Chaos Within

Consummation

Managing the Chaos The Fog of Battle Armageddon and Apocalypse

6. Energy

Matter in Motion (Inertia, Friction, Noise)

Statics and Dynamics The Homeostatic Universe Friction and Noise Nebular Hypotheses

Energy Unbound

Wirrwarr Petrific Chaos Energy’s Epic Energy’s Image Postlude: Energy’s Acolytes

7. Entropy

Time and Tide

Conservation and Convertibility Double-Entry Physics The Death of the Universe Ancestral Voices A Question of Time A Sense of Direction Second Thoughts

Tristes Entropics

Nature Decay’d Chekhov’s Fiddle Entartung Zola’s Fevers Vox clamantis

Anarchy and Endgame

Resistance and Complementarity Beckett and the Shape of Chaos Sights and Sounds

8. Coda, or da Capo al Fine Notes Bibliography Index