“It will come as no surprise that Joyce himself coined a word — a neologism, by way of a productive repetition — for this…
“It will come as no surprise that Joyce himself coined a word — a neologism, by way of a productive repetition — for this impasse. As we would just as easily be squeezed to death by pure unbroken order (cosmos) as dissipated by pure unleashed chaos, we are enjoined by the hermeneutic imperative to embrace what Joyce called the chaosmos, the chaosmic, the mutual interplay and continual disturbance of one side by the other, which is the condition of possibility of producing novel effects.”— Caputo, John D. Hermeneutics: Facts and Interpretation in the Age of Information. London: Pelican Books, 2018.