How does the science of systems in-/re-/deform the realm of literary theory? Does literature reflect, create, complicate, or destroy some system? Can the scientific and humanistic be integrated in a system of literature? Papers welcomed linking the literary and any of the waves of dynamical systems theories. Topics might include:

• Cybernetics/information theory
• General System Theory
• Autopoiesis
• Chaosmos, organization, synergetics
• Chaos, complexity, emergence
• Virtuality, posthumanity, informatics
• Merology and isomorphism
• Homeostasis vs. morphogenesis
• Development vs. evolution
• Nomothetic vs. idiographic science
• Figures (the butterfly; Schrödinger's cat)
• Systematicity in literary theorists
• The sci/lit canon
• Phenomenology as systems science
• Possible worlds semantics
• Ecological psychologies/philosophies
• Perception/action systems
• Social psychology/activity theory
• Empirical Science of Literature
• Expressivist poetics
• Eastern/Central European literary (systems) theory