Contents:

i. Acknowledgements
ii. Foreword
iii. Thesis

PART I: THE SYSTEMIC PARADIGM OF THE MIND

1. The Systemic Paradigm
1.1. Episteme and Paradigm
1.2. The Strange Turn
2.1. Dynamic Systems Thinking
2.1.1. Basic Presuppositions of Systems Thinking
2.1.2. Quantum Physics: The End of the Linear World
2.1.3. Ilya Prigogine and the Behavior of Dissipative Structures
2.2.1. Cybernetics: Feedback Loops and Self-Organization
2.2.2. Chaos as a Source of Order
2.2.3. Bifurcation points
2.3. Autopoiesis
2.3.1. Cognition
2.3.2. Structural Coupling
2.3.3. To Bring Forth a World
2.3.4. Self-Awareness
2. The Subject Position and the Languaging Discourse of History
3.1.1. Humanism and Post-structuralism
3.1.2. Post-structuralism and Decentralization
3.2.The Subject-Position
3.2.1. Consciousness, Identity, Narratives
3.2.2. Memory as Strategy
3.2.3. History as Ideology
3.2.4. Rules, Discourse, Objects
4. The Mind as a Network
4.1.1. Maps and Models
4.1.2. Systemic Maps
4.1.3. Non-Identity, Asymmetry and Balance
4.1.4. A Map is Not a Territory but It Tends to Become One
4.1.5. Systemic Metaphors
4.2.1. Identity as a Network
4.2.2. Emergence and Behavior of Identity Parts
4.2.3. Dysfunctions in Patterns of Connectivity
5. Deleuze
5.1. Clinical and Critical Strategies
5.2. Ethics of Life
5.3. Multiplicity and Assemblage
5.4. To Know the Distances
5.5. Rhythm, Milieu, Territory
5.6. The Plane of Consistency and the Plane of Organization
6. Becoming
6.2. Approximation, Mimesis, Identification
6.3. Vectors of Force
6.4. The Rhizome
6.7. Affects and Percepts, or Powers and Qualities
6.8. What Children Cannot Say
6.9. The Crystals of the Unconscious
6.10. The Nodes

PART II: WILLIAM BLAKE's FOUR ZOAS

Biographical Note
7. The Wild Visionary
7.1. Vision and Memory
7.2. The Fourfold Sight
7.3. The Body of the Mind
7.4. The White Dot
7.5. Visionary Cognition
7.6. Form in Alteration
7.7. Reason and Mystery, Victims and Tyrants
7.8. State Angels and Illegal Devils
7.9. Art
8. The Zoas and Their Worlds
8.1. Albion
8.2. Emanation
8.3. Spectre, Selfhood, Serpent
8.4. Satan and Rahab
8.5. Clothing
8.6. Urizen, Tharmas, Luvah, Urthona-Los
8.7. The Worlds: The Mundane Shell
8.8. The Realms: Ulro, Generation, Beulah, Eden
9. The Events
9.1. The Writing of the Zoas
9.2. The Orc-Urizen Cycle
9.3. The Events of the Fall
9.4. Apocalypse and Resurrection
9.5. Crystallization and Crisis
9.6. The Millennium
10.1. A Systemic Perspective of the Fall
10.2. Network Perspective
10.3. The Error Within Error
10.4. Albion’s Proper Name

Appendix 1: Chaos in Social Languaging
Appendix 2: Systemic Maps Perspective
Abbreviations
Bibliography

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