Order and Disorder


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Order and Disorder

See also classification.

things to be done or a list of those things, as a list of the matters to be discussed at a meeting.
extreme disorder. See also government.
lack of order; irregularity. See also disease and illness.
chaos, disorder. See also insanity.
1. the science of method or orderly arrangement and classiflcation.
2. any system created to impose order. See also logic. — methodological, adj.
1. the abode of all demons; Hell.
2. (l.c.) any scene of wild confusion or disorder.
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Boetti distrusts this higher order, for in this work his intention was "the presentation of a visual disorder, which on the contrary is the representation of a spiritual order." Visual order is not necessarily the expression of a universal order, and in this work Boetti began with the polarity of order and disorder and the oscillation between these two poles that can be said to resemble a Ping-Pong game.