Bizarre-Privileged Items in the Universe: The Logic of Likeness North Paul
An imaginative new theory of likeness that ranges widely across history and subjects, from physics and evolution to psychology, language, and artA butterfly is like another butterfly. A butterfly is…
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An imaginative new theory of likeness that ranges widely across history and subjects, from physics and evolution to psychology, language, and artA butterfly is like another butterfly. A butterfly is also like a leaf and at the same time like a paper airplane, an owl's face, a scholar flying from book to book. The most disparate things approach one another in a butterfly, the sort of dense nodule of likeness that Roger Caillois once proposed calling a "bizarre-privileged item." In response, critical theorist Paul North proposes a spiritual exercise: imagine a universe made up solely of likenesses. There are no things, only traits acting according to the law of series, here and there a thick overlap that appears "bizarre."Centuries of thought have fixated on the concept of difference. This book offers a theory that begins from likeness, where, at any instant, a vast
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