Apocalypticism and Gnosis inaugurate a new form of thinking which, though submerged by Aristotelian and Scholastic logic, has been preserved into the present and was taken up and further developed by Hegel and Marx. The dialectic is both “dualistic and monistic.” The particular way of …
INTERVIEWER: I am reminded that you haven’t yet put a name to this imaginative place in your texts. I’d like to ask you about this, and for you to talk about the importance that affects seem to have in the world constructed by your fiction.
MARIA GABRIELA LLANSOL: I already mentioned …
He looked at his watch and stood for a while on the sea-front. The weather seemed worse here than it did in the town. The tremendous clamour of the sea, joined to the howling of the wind, made one vast uproar composed of many voices small and great. The night was dark; nothing could be seen of …
From The illustrated dictionary of nonlinear dynamics and chaos, T. Kapitaniak and S. R. Bishop, Wiley, 1999
Most smooth infinitely differentiable functions $V(x,c)$, where $x \in R^n, c \in R^k$, and $k\leq5$, are structurally stable. For this family $V:R^n \times R^k \to R$ and any point $(x,c) …
Taking stock of the various attempts to provide a classification for organised systems, we will find, in adopting increasingly fine-tuned approaches to identifying the characteristics of these systems, that the same fundamental problem emerges over and over: the behaviour of living systems can be …
