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According to the Cambridge Dictionary order means; the way in which people or things are arranged , either in relation to one another or according to a particular characteristic . 1 Chronologic, taxonomic, or numeric are only a few techniques of order that assist us in organizing our thoughts, hence our life. Leibniz suggests that one can understand the order of the universe by looking at the working principles of a machine system. Seemingly Leibniz's approach is tangible yet also outdated when it comes to today's phenomenon like the internet or algorithms. Through Leibniz's studies, Lazare Carnot proposes the scientific term entropy, which later on recognized as the second law of thermodynamics, refers to changes in the status quo of a system and produces randomness or disorder(chaos). Atlas: Order of Memory, Gerard Richter Since the order requires categorization, it inevitably engenders a hierarchy of some sort. Atlas: Order of Memory of Gerard Richter, for example, ...

Derived from Proustian structuralism, Gerard Genette's discourses on how nonlinearity appears in literature imply three keywords: time, order, and narration. He explains in Proust's model that events take place both in a particular order and a definable number of times; quite the reverse of the nonlinear approach that uses layered and dispersed timelines. In order to understand the deconstruction of the chronological order of events, one should first grasp the concept of time. The chronology is based on time consisting of time past, time present, and time future. ''The future does not yet exist. The past no longer exists, and the present takes no time at all.  What then is time?' ' 1 St.Augustine, Confession on Time Exhibition, The way of Seeing,  John Berger, Arter, 2017 From Einstein's theory of relativity, which demonstrates that the perception of time depends on where one stands, to Aristotle's postulate, which relates movement and time to determine ...

After my research, I was confused with the different aspects and approaches to nonlinearity, since the results were ramifying towards many fields such as philosophy, screen narration, and learning methodology. Wordflex mobile application by Oxford According to the Cambridge Dictionary, the definition of nonlinear; used to describe a process, series of events etc. in which one thing does not clearly or directly follow from another. Therefore, I infer that it's related to the chronological or hierarchical order. I first focus on the perception of time and how we order and disorder things. What constitutes the past, present and future? Where to begin and where to end?  As a non-hierarchical concept, I associate it with a rhizome, which epitomizes multiplicities. Derived from the botanical rhizome, in A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari propose ''a mode of knowledge and a model for society'' that opposes this tree-like conception. While the arborescent archetype r...

As for the words, I infer that nonlinear literature unfolds paths by branching the story towards different directions. In my opinion, nonlinearity in the literature demonstrates itself in various configurations from screenwriting to game-books, or video game narratives to etymology books. Therefore I see this approach as a challenge to our experience of time, which sets a linear structure, or our habitual activity of reading, watching, and our thinking that we get used to perceiving it as a single line. In literature, the nonlinear approach is not only breaking the single line of the storytelling but also shifts the order of the narrative, which inspires the creator and the audience to correlate things that seem not connectable.  

By enabling users to travel from one piece to another, the working principles of hypertext, as for me, can be seen more than linking the documents with each other but as nonlinear thinking that allows both the audience and practitioners to enhance the experience of creating and perceiving the output. Since hypertexts already embody multiple paths and it's linked to text/words, I thought it would be more relevant if I do my research combining hypertext with literature. I have deliberately picked this keyword as I believe it touches what I do and what I want to do as editor-cum-book designer as well.  Hypertext Definition: text stored in a computer system that contains links that allow the user to move from one piece of text or document to another a hypertext link on the internet https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/hypertext#:~:text=%2F%CB%88ha%C9%AAp%C9%99rtekst%2F,text%20or%20document%20to%20another My intention, for example, is always to look for bui...