Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. 1 Introduction: The Evolution of Chaos 1
6. PART I SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING
7. 2 Self-reflexive Metaphors in Maxwell’s Demon and Shannon’s Choice: Finding the Passages 31
8. 3 The Necessary Gap: Chaos as Self in The Education of Henry Adams 61
9. 4 From Epilogue to Prologue: Chaos and the Arrow of Time 91
10. 5 Chaos as Dialectic: Stanislaw Lem and the Space of Writing 115
11. PART II THE FIGURE IN THE CARPET
12. 6 Strange Attractors: The Appeal of Chaos 143
13. 7 Chaos and Poststructuralism 175
14. 8 The Politics of Chaos: Local Knowledge versus Global Theory 209
15. 9 Fracturing Forms: Recuperation and Simulation in The Golden Notebook 236
16. 10 Conclusion: Chaos and Culture: Postmodernism(s) and the Denaturing of Experience 265
17. Selected Bibliography 297
18. Index 305