Abstract
The Moment of Complexity is an interesting, frustrating, and ultimately unsatisfying book. Or, rather, it is two books. In the first—the bulk of the text—Mark Taylor aims to unite two disparate academic discourses: one found in the textual web of humanities, literary analysis, Western philosophy, and cultural studies, and the other in the technological web of computer networking, computational theory, biological science, and complexity studies. His claim is that new "nontotalizing structures that function as a whole" embodied in society's complex, emerging, internet-based "network culture" provide the answer to the nihilistic (and self-contradictory) postmodernist assertion that all totalizing theories and projects are fatally counterproductive (pp. 12, 5).
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