Document Type
Article
Abstract
[Editors' Introduction]
Based on a comparison between the theories of N. Katherine Hayles (Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science) and Vladimir Tasic (Mathematics and the Roots of Postmodern Thought), J. Linn Mackey asks the question "Is Chaos Theory Postmodern Science" and looks at parallels between the literature dubbed as "postmodern" and the scientific branch more properly termed "complex dynamics." His conclusions are surprising: both Hayles and Tasic miss important connective elements of both the science and the practice of postmodernism. Postmodern science does, in fact, exist, and literature just may be it.
Repository Citation
Mackey, J. L.. "Is Chaos Theory Postmodern Science?." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 4, no. 4, 2004, pp. 1–13. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol4/iss4/5
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