Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science

Hayles’s point is that the almost simultaneous appearance of interest in complex systems across many disciplinesâ•physics, mathematics, biology, information theory, literature, literary theoryâ•signals a profound paradigm and epistemological shift. She calls the new paradigm ‘orderly disorder.’ This is a timely, informative, and enormously thought-provoking book.

N. Katherine Hayles here investigates parallels between contemporary literature and ...