Walter Kalaidjian writer, " Multiplicity , diversity , complexity , anarchy and chaos could . . be mapped as defining rubrics across the contemporaneous fields of culture , aesthetics , and politics of the modern American age ; they aptly describe the social experience of the new mass coming together in the cosmopolitan urban centers of modern American big city life. With this wave of change at the dawn of the centers , the idea of time as a chronological succession with clear-cut instances is dismantled and a new paradigm emerges : time , memory , and experience as a heterogeneous whole.