The butterfly effect hits complicité: a chaotic reading of Mnemonic and A Disappearing Number
The middle ground chaos theory secures among other gigantic scientific theories to describe the world has brought it to the fore lately. It neither declines the Newtonian clockwork model completely nor promotes the quantum indeterministic model entirely. It preaches that the world is both ordered...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2017
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11294/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11294/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11294/1/16132-54518-1-PB.pdf |
| Summary: | The middle ground chaos theory secures among other gigantic scientific theories to describe the world has
brought it to the fore lately. It neither declines the Newtonian clockwork model completely nor promotes the
quantum indeterministic model entirely. It preaches that the world is both ordered and disordered, and man is
both bound and free. Unlike relativity and quantum physics, it is neither busy with massive objects nor
preoccupied with tiny ones, the atoms. It simply works in between, our world. Thus, it spreads and is widely
utilised in a variety of disciplines, including literary and cultural domains. Conversely, Theatre de Complicité
promotes nonlinearity and fragmentation for structure, and physicality and visual imagery for performance. It
does not prefer pre-written texts rather favours devising its own through a lengthy process of improvising and
rehearsing. It believes that the world is no longer a world of a single story. It cannot be encompassed within one
philosophy or viewpoint. Mnemonic and A Disappearing Number suggest human body within the context of
origin as a collective identity, and math within the context of infinity as a path for eternity. Hence, chaos theory
is deemed to be the appropriate choice for analysis as it can provide an avenue of escape from the soul-crushing
mechanical view of the world dominated most critical approaches for decades and can also furnish an
alternative language and scope for literary interpretation. |
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