From Order to Chaos
Michel Serres's Field Models
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4386824 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria L Assad (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 33 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | SubStance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0049-2426 • E-ISSN: 1527-2095 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3684967 |
| OpenAlex | W2335011273 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
IN HIS PRE-GENESE WRITINGS, Michel Serres uses laws of thermodynamics and information theory to articulate passages that would bring literary culture and thought into play with one another (Paulson, 31). The notion of interplay, with its attending complexities and ever-shifting dynamics, prevents Serres from seeking global paradigms, universal ways of ordering, that can join the literary and the scientific (Paulson, 36), and instead drives him on to explore the fluid and heteroclite topology of the passages he discovers. This urge toward the all-inclusive (thus limitless) limits of Serres's field vision eventually leads to an a-topical foregrounding of all passages in an indeterminate soup or noise that can summarily be called chaos, but which Serres refers to by a variety of tropes. The following is a description of Serres's descent into chaos and an attempt to discern a meaning from this undertaking-a reconciliation of literature and science in a discourse surpassing both
Epistemology · Field (mathematics) · Foregrounding · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Michel foucault · Order (exchange) · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Law · Mathematics · Origins and Evolution of Life · Philosophy · Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2021 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |