Was it really that simple just a moment ago? Where has the order gone? But which order was it anyway? Good advice is hard to come by, and confusion reigns. 37 authors take the plunge forward, diving eagerly into disorder, into the unknown and the unnamed. They juggle with Borges' "Chinese Encyclopedia," delve into "terms that look like flies from a distance," into "masterless patterns," and into "words that belong to the author," rewriting the old encyclopedia "with a very small camel hair brush" into a palimpsest of that order which, in our eyes, is none, but which in truth simply forgoes the larger context. Those who engage with "The Handbook of Confusion" enter "collapsing spaces of possibility." For "here it wavers," just like in the rest of the world.