Order and the Virtual: The Philosophy and Science of Deleuzian Cosmology

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