"chaosmos" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: Blend of chaos + cosmos. Coined by Irish novelist and poet James Joyce his in 1939 novel Finnegans Wake. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|chaos|cosmos}} Blend of chaos + cosmos, {{coinage|en|Q6882}} Coined by Irish novelist and poet James Joyce Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} chaosmos (uncountable)
  1. The world, viewed as a fusion of order and disorder. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-chaosmos-en-noun-o9AXeo-g
  2. The world, viewed as a meaningless assemblage of infinite perspectives. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-chaosmos-en-noun-aTiH-6q0 Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English blends: 44 56 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 19 81 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 23 77 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 8 92
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          "text": "Deleuze and Guattari write of the necessity of tearing such holes through clichés and opinion to enable the arrival of difference in the form of chaosmos: \"A chaosmos, a composed chaos — neither foreseen nor preconceived...Art struggles with chaos but it does so to render it sensory.",
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          "ref": "2013, Matthew Beaumont, Matthew Ingleby, G.K. Chesterton, London and Modernity, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Which is worse, asks Kelly Hurley, 'London as a chaosmos–a space of meaningless noise, activity, sensation in which narratives indiscriminately crowd one another and no one narrative has any more significance than the next' or 'the paranoid network of deeply-laid and infernal designs'?",
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          "ref": "2014, Douglas Brownlie, Paul Hewer, Mark Tadajewski, Expanding Disciplinary Space: On the Potential of Critical Marketing, →ISBN:",
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