Notes

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xxxi
5. Dynamic Fiction and the Field of Action: Mimesis, Metaphor, Model,and Metachaotics 1
6. Orderly Systems: Growth, Competition, and Transgression 27
7. Entropic Crisis, Blockage, Bifurcation, and Flow 45
8. Turbulence, Stochastic Processes, and Traffic 61
9. Energy, Noise, and Information 79
10. Juxtapositional Symmetry: Recursion, Scaling, and Fractals 97
11. Iteration 123
12. Strange Attractors 147
13. Synoptic Study: “The Coded Dots of Life” 163
14. Notes 187
15. Bibliography 193
16. Index 201