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Bizarre-Privileged Items in the Universe - The Logic of Likeness, Hardback Book

Bizarre-Privileged Items in the Universe - The Logic of Likeness Hardback

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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 array of series proliferates and remote regions come into contact.

Bizarre-Privileged Items in the Universe follows likenesses as they traverse physics and the physical universe; evolution and evolutionary theory; psychology and the psyche; sociality, language, and art.

Divergent sources from an eccentric history help give shape to a new trans-science, "homeotics."

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