chaosmos

Noun

chaosmos (uncountable)

1. The world, viewed as a fusion of order and disorder.
   • This chapter analyses the elements that characterize Eco's tension between order and disorder, between cosmos and chaos, and that bring him to find a middle theory that characterizes his chaosmos.2003, Cristina Farronato, Eco's Chaosmos: From the Middle Ages to Postmodernity, page 11
   • Deleuze and Guattari write of the necessity of tearing such holes through clichés and opinion to enable the arrival of difference in the form of chaosmos: "A chaosmos, a composed chaos — neither foreseen nor preconceived...Art struggles with chaos but it does so to render it sensory.2003, Richard Doyle, Wetwares: Experiments in Postvital Living, →ISBN, page 15.6
2. The world, viewed as a meaningless assemblage of infinite perspectives.
   • For me, there is nothing outside the chaosmos. However, that does not mean that the chaosmos is unified, totalized, or complete.1999, Marcus A. Doel, Poststructuralist Geographies: The Diabolical Art of Spatial Science, →ISBN
   • Which is worse, asks Kelly Hurley, 'London as a chaosmos–a space of meaningless noise, activity, sensation in which narratives indiscriminately crowd one another and no one narrative has any more significance than the next' or 'the paranoid network of deeply-laid and infernal designs'?2013, Matthew Beaumont, Matthew Ingleby, G.K. Chesterton, London and Modernity, →ISBN