The Moment of Complexity

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D. Monroe:Subj:
           
           The Moment of Complexity
 Date:
           
           Thu, 3 Jan 2002 4:39:19 AM Eastern Standard Time
 From:
           
           Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>
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           pynchon-l at waste.org

 This might also be of interest to some here ...

 Taylor, Mark C.  The Moment of Complexity:
    Emerging Network Culture.  Chicago:
    U of Chicago P, 2001.

 http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/14278.ctl

 Looks far more interesting than the publisher's sort
 of been there, done that description lets on here. 
 From Taylor's own website ...

 http://www.williams.edu/mtaylor/textdir/moment/

Yes, thanks, and entirely relevant. For balance, you might want
to peek at this '95 Sci American critique of Complexology,
from within the ranks of their own:

http://www.sciam.com/explorations/0695trends.html

But, I think that the embrace of chaos and complexity by
the culture is in general a move toward Pynchonism 
(whatever that might be!), and I think underlying even
the spreading (gathering in?) metaphor of chaos/complexity/order 
is a move toward a more biological metaphor for reality as
opposed to a more strictly physical/objective description.