Don Delillo's Cosmopolis.

The asymmetry:  a counterforce to balance and calm, the riddling twist, subatomic, that made creation happen.

“You know what anarchist have always believed.”

“Yes.”

“Tell me,” she said.

“The urge to destroy is a creative urge.”

“This is also the hallmark of capitalist thought. Enforced destruction. Old industries have to be harshly eliminated. New markets have to be forcibly claimed. Old markets have to be re-exploited. Destroy the past, make the future.”

(p-92-93)