Entropies

The “Entropies” special issue of Technophany offers insight into how and why the concept of entropy—inclusive of its many historical definitions, expressions, and mathematical formulations—raises fundamental philosophical questions and problems. The concept of entropy has had several major historical scientific iterations, the three major being classical thermodynamic, statistical mechanical and information theoretic. Instead of concentrating on one type of entropy. The articles collected are, therefore, of a broad nature, reflective of entropy’s conceptual plurality. The aim has been not to determine what entropy is—whether quantitively or qualitatively—but to consider how this equivocal concept problematises our relation to fundamental phenomena such as life and death, technology, time, chance, information, and the cosmos. Edited by Joel white and Gerald Moore