{"product_id":"hermes-iv-volume-82","title":"Hermes IV Volume 82","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow order, meaning, and knowledge emerge from noise across science, literature, and philosophy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHermes IV: Distribution\u003c\/i\u003e is the fourth and penultimate volume in Michel Serres's landmark series on knowledge and communication across disciplines. This collection of essays investigates how order emerges from noise, using thermodynamics and information theory as structural models applicable to science, literature, and culture alike. Moving beyond the themes of interference and translation developed in earlier volumes, Serres focuses on distribution: the processes by which systems take shape, endure, and eventually disperse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the core of the book is a dynamic vision of knowledge as an unstable formation. Systems arise from chance encounters or deviations that, through repetition, harden into law. They resist entropy by remaining open to external inputs, forming temporary pockets of negentropy within a wider field of chaos. Space, time, energy, language, and meaning are all shown to emerge from such conditions of mixture and imbalance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSerres develops his argument through a striking range of materials, including fables, myths, literary texts, philosophy, and the history of science. The result is an uncommon synthesis of hard science and the humanities that reveals shared structures across domains while affirming the irreducible plurality of their laws and methods.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRetail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and\/or extended descriptions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57504971620725,"sku":"9781517901929","price":96.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/hermes-iv-volume-82","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}