Order and the virtual : the philosophy and science of Deleuzian cosmology / Bill Ross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ross, Bill, 1964-2022, author.

Series:

Crosscurrents (Edinburgh University Press)

Crosscurrents

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Physics--Philosophy.

Physics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 223 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2024.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-3995-2737-1

OCLC:

1435580833