Frontmatter --Contents --List of Illustrations --Acknowledgments --Ω. Uncertainty and Complexity: An Untethered Epilogue --1. Shaping Chaos --2. Nothing and Something --3. Number: The One and The Many --4. Carnival --5. War --6. Energy --7. Entropy...
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Frontmatter --Contents --List of Illustrations --Acknowledgments --Ω. Uncertainty and Complexity: An Untethered Epilogue --1. Shaping Chaos --2. Nothing and Something --3. Number: The One and The Many --4. Carnival --5. War --6. Energy --7. Entropy --8. Coda, Or Da Capo Al Fine --Notes --Bibliography --Index. Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations --?. Uncertainty and Complexity: An Untethered Epilogue -- 1. Shaping Chaos -- 2. Nothing and Something -- 3. Number: The One and the Many -- 4. Carnival -- 5. War -- Representation -- Condition -- Consummation -- 6. Energy -- Matter in Motion (Inertia, Friction, Noise) -- Energy Unbound -- 7. Entropy -- Time and Tide -- Tristes Entropics -- Anarchy and Endgame -- 8. Coda, or Da capo al fine -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. Martin Meisel considers the long effort to conjure, depict, and rationalize extreme disorder, with all the passions, excitements, and compromises the act has provoked. He builds a rough history from major social, psychological, and cosmological turning points in the imagining of chaos, particularly exploring the remarkable shift in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from conceiving of chaos as disruptive to celebrating its liberating and energizing potential
