Chaosmos
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Chaosmos, a portmanteau of chaos and cosmos, is a term coined by James Joyce in Finnegans Wake, later taken up by Deleuze and Guattari and Umberto Eco (in The Aesthetics of Chaosmos, 1989).
- Because, Soferim Bebel, if it goes to that, (and dormerwindow 18
- gossip will cry it from the housetops no surelier than the writing 19
- on the wall will hue it to the mod of men that mote in the main 20
- street) every person, place and thing in the chaosmos of Alle 21
- anyway connected with the gobblydumped turkery was moving 22
- and changing every part of the time: the travelling inkhorn 23
- (possibly pot), the hare and turtle pen and paper, the continually 24
- more and less intermisunderstanding minds of the anticollabora- 25
- tors, the as time went on as it will variously inflected, differently 26
- pronounced, otherwise spelled, changeably meaning vocable 27
- scriptsigns.
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