Fractals

[Dave Monroe]

I got lucky and saw a decent stage production here ...

--- MalignD at aol.com wrote:
> <<Stoppard, Tom.  Arcadia.  London: Faber & Faber,
> 1995.>>
> 
> By all means read this, whether you learn anything
> or not.
> 
> Also:  James Gleick, Chaos.  Provies a good
> explanation of fractals.

But it reads on the page just as well.  And, yeah,
Gleick.  I just figured he went without mentioning, is
all (and he did, 'til now).  But on Gleick, see ...

Hayles, N. Katherine.  Chaos Bound: Orderly
   Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science.
   Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1990. 

Hayles, as I recall, points out the unreflexively 
conventional linearities--great men doing great
things, the progress of science, et al.--of Gleick's
narrative of the unconventionally nonlinear.  See also
Hayles pp. 171-4, it sez here ...

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ch002.htm

... taking Hayles to task for what might be her own
lack of self-reflexivity.  And, hey, this just sort of
popped up whilst I was hunting here ...

http://www.dc.peachnet.edu/~mnunes/COMPLEX/LIMITS.HTM

And on that signal/noise thing ...

http://www.dc.peachnet.edu/~mnunes/COMPLEX/NOISE.HTM

Tres spherique, non?  All this and more at ...

http://www.dc.peachnet.edu/~mnunes/COMPLEX/index.htm

Okay, okay, okay, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon ...

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