As recently BoingBoinged, the navigational instincts of fruitflies and humans flake out in similar ways when hammered by cocaine. Does this mean that the motor-skill mapping humans make for driving a car is isomorphic in some way to the way fruitflies fly?
When a system breaks down – by accident, by decomposition, or just by falling apart – its structure is revealed. We're exploring examples of this and related phenomena in art, in literature, and in the wider world.