David Cornberg

Salient features of chaos theory are described for use in understanding a wide range of social phenomena. Construing social power as actions upon actions provides a bridge for connecting features of chaos with many kinds of human actions. Chaos is treated not as metaphor but as a distinct type of order. Limitations of chaos theory as a mathematical approach are presented. This presentation leads to a more general horizon of issues concerning theory and social reality.

This article uses excepts from the works of many different American writers to show how important and interesting food has been in American culture. Examples span American history from the colonial times through the pioneers to the beatniks.

Through signs of life we see configurations formed around our natural, elemental fear of death. Dualism both foregrounds and obscures the possibility of living the human body without ideology that freezes our bodies while forcing our minds to pursue transcendence. A contemporary image of non-duality presents an alternative vision of human participation in the cosmos. The possibility that we are already where we want to be horizons this reflection.

The continuing growth of semiotics signifies increased awareness of global communicative processes. Expansion of the communicative universe through semiotic research furthers the transformation of our contemporary experience. We validate this assertion through semiotic analysis of an everyday object, by which we discover an infinite horizon. With that horizon, we transcend the global culture of addiction and reach spiritual science.