Author: Vladisav Jovanović
Status: Preprint
Version: Latest archived (Mar 2026)
If reality is approached as an already structured field within which local structurations emerge, persist, dominate, weaken, and fail, then chaos must be redefined. It can no longer mean the absolute absence of structure. That would imply an unstructured void beneath organization, a view no longer compatible with the ontology developed in this sequence. This paper argues that chaos is not outside structure but internal to its life. Chaos appears when a local structuration becomes insufficient relative to the field it is trying to organize. The field contains more relation, difference, pressure, contradiction, competing formation, or scale-demand than the current local holding can successfully bind, filter, metabolize, or govern. To sharpen this, the paper distinguishes field, local structuration, dominance, and chaos. Field names the already differentiated relational whole. Local structuration names a localized stabilization within it. Dominance names the degree to which a local formation organizes the relevant domain. Chaos names the condition in which local holding becomes insufficient relative to what the field is now demanding. The result is a more exact philosophy of chaos: not as the opposite of order, but as the condition in which local order becomes insufficient for what reality is currently demanding.
chaos; structure; local structuration; field; dominance; viability; structural presence; collapse; fragmentation; repair; philosophy of structure