Order and Chaos. The aesthetic constructions between sciences and arts in Transmodernity

Abstract

The understanding of order and chaos are constructions of human interpretation and conceptualization. Diverse human cultures have sought and constructed explanations for their own existence and that of their universe. From mythological and religious answers, to alchemists and scientists, from mathematics to philosophy, it has sought to answer questions about origins, the future and even what we are. And a meaning for existence. The objective of this research work aims to focus from some manifestations of artistic discourses, approaches to new conceptions of human knowledge, specifically chaos theories and quantum mechanics, since art has also been a participant in these searches, for several decades. A possible illuminating look at all these conflicts can be found in millenary philosophies such as Buddhism and Taoism, which made reflections regarding the existence of continuity of consciousness, notions of insubstantiality and inescenciality, anatma (not soul), multiple realities, among others. At the present time, there are several tendencies of human thought that, without resigning themselves to the impossibility of finding these answers, try to recognize that finding these final truths is not possible, accepting chaos and indeterminacy as a condition of existence itself and recognizing that order, although desirable, is not possible. The methodology used was theoretical, however, its foundation points to transdisciplinarity, linking social studies with history, the history of mentalities, art studies, especially those that are oriented to hermeneutics and aesthetics.