{"product_id":"bizarre-privileged-items-in-the-universe-the-logic-of-likeness-9781942130468","title":"Bizarre-Privileged Items in the Universe: The Logic of Likeness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn imaginative new theory of likeness that ranges widely across history and subjects, from physics and evolution to psychology, language, and art\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCenturies 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. \u003ci\u003eBizarre-Privileged Items in the Universe\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Zone Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/23\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781942130468\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336","brand":"Paul North","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38607615590581,"sku":"9781942130468","price":33.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_2a17850b-ef5e-490d-834e-b988c4defc4b.jpg?v=1614089667","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/bizarre-privileged-items-in-the-universe-the-logic-of-likeness-9781942130468","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}