{"product_id":"the-moment-of-complexity-emerging-network-culture","title":"The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The Moment of Complexity is a profoundly original work. In remarkable and insightful ways  Mark Taylor traces an entirely new way to view the evolution of our culture  detailing how information theory and the scientific concept of complexity can be used to understand recent developments in the arts and humanities. This book will ultimately be seen as a classic.\"-John L. Casti  Santa Fe Institute  author of Gdel: A Life of Logic  the Mind  and Mathematics  The science of complexity accounts for that inscrutable mix of chaos and order that governs our natural world. Complexity explains how networks emerge and function  how species organize into ecosystems  how stars form into galaxies  and how just a few sequences of DNA can account for so many different life forms. Recently  the idea of complexity has taken the worlds of business and politics by storm. The concept is used to account for phenomena as varied as the behavior of the stock market  the response of voting populations  and the effects of risk management. Even Disney has used complexity theory to manage crowd control at its theme parks.  Given the startling development of new information technologies  we now live in a moment of unprecedented complexity  an era in which change occurs faster than our ability to comprehend it. With The Moment of Complexity  Mark C. Taylor offers a timely map for this unfamiliar terrain opening in our midst  unfolding an original philosophy through a remarkable synthesis of science and culture. According to Taylor  complexity is not just a breakthrough scientific concept  but the defining quality of the post-Cold War era. The flux of digital currents swirling around us  he argues  has created a new network culture with its own distinctive logic and dynamic.  Drawing on resources from information theory and evolutionary biology  Taylor explains the operation of complex adaptive systems in social and cultural processes and captures a whole new zeitgeist in the making. To appreciate the significance of our emerging network culture  he claims  we need not only to understand contemporary scientific and technological transformations  but also to explore the subtle influences of art  architecture  philosophy  religion  and higher education. The Moment of Complexity  then  is a remarkable work of cultural analysis on a scale rarely seen today. To follow its trajectory is to learn how we arrived at this critical moment in our culture  and to know where we might head in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44965299781685,"sku":"ByrdShop_0226791173","price":52.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226791173.jpg?v=1770492094","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-moment-of-complexity-emerging-network-culture","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}