One of the few books mentioned by title in the Catalogue of the Inst. of Chaos Studies & Imaginal Yoga (see #9 in this list). The "mundus imaginalis", also called the World of Archetypes or the "Isthmus" (Arabic, barzakh), lies in-between t…The first and still the most complete introduction to chaos — required reading — BUT with certain caveats. First: Gleick has no philosophical or poetic depth; he actually begins the book with a quote from John Updike! No mention of chaos my…
James Gleick
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James Gleick is the author of *Chaos*, the foundational popular science account of chaos theory and nonlinear dynamics that the course treats as essential but philosophically incomplete. The readings position Gleick's work as the necessary technical primer on chaos—its history, its key figures (Mandelbrot, Feigenbaum, Lorenz)—yet simultaneously critique it for lacking the mythological, poetic, and non-Western conceptual resources that the seminar argues are necessary for understanding chaos in relation to imagination, cybernetics, and artistic practice. His absence of engagement with the "mundus imaginalis" and oriental philosophy becomes a productive gap that the course itself seeks to fill.
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