Order and the Virtual
The Philosophy and Science of Deleuzian Cosmology
Published on 30. June 2024
240 pages
978-1-3995-2737-8 (ISBN)
Description
Bill Ross demonstrates the relation between Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of difference and the conceptual foundations of contemporary physics through careful engagements with the theory of relativity, quantum physics and chaos and complexity theory. Ross shows that recent work in cosmology by figures such as Lee Smolin and David Bohm calls into question the assumption that the laws of physics are universal and unchanging, a view that Deleuze anticipates. The second law of thermodynamics tells us that order in the universe as a whole is destined to break down. Against this, Ross demonstrates that given Deleuze's conception of the event as an expression of non-locality, and his emphasis on dissymmetry over symmetry, at the cosmological scale the universe is not destined towards disorder: evolution outruns entropy.
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English
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Edinburgh
United Kingdom
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Professional and scholarly
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3,95 MB
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978-1-3995-2737-8 (9781399527378)
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Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1. Chaos
- Chaos and Complexity Theory
- Nietzschean Chaos and the Superior Principle of Sufficient Reason
- The Eternal Return and the Disparity of Forces
- Ergodicity and Infinite Duration
- Post-Classical Physics and the Question of Entropy
- 2. Entropy and the Complete Concept in Leibniz and Deleuze
- Dissymmetry, Energy Gradients and 'the Ultimate Origination of Things'
- On the Ultimate Origination of Things
- From Many Worlds to Chaosmos
- The Calculating God
- Mathematical Thought, the Problem and the Cosmos
- The Compete Concept and Disjunctive Synthesis in Sufficient Reason
- Physical Systems, Disparity and Disjunctive Synthesis
- Chaosmos as Cosmology
- Absolute Zero, Limits and the Infinite
- Simple Order
- 3. Order
- Mechanism and Vitalism, Order and Complexity
- The Game Analogy #1: Leibniz and Kant
- The Game Analogy #2: Claude Shannon and Michel Serres
- Game #2.1: Claude Shannon's 'A Mathematical Theory of Communication'
- Game #2.2: Michel Serres' The Birth of Physics
- Game #3.0: Deleuze's Ideal Game
- 4. Order as Complexity
- Complexity as Principle
- Limits without Negation
- 5. Sufficient Reason as Dissymmetry and the Evolutionary Paradigm
- Limits and Non-Locality
- A Network Paradigm: Loop Quantum Gravity
- A Holographic Paradigm: David Bohm's Implicate Order
- Evolutionary Expansiveness
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
