BIZARRE

An imaginative new theory of likeness that ranges widely across history and subjects, from physics and evolution to psychology, lang uage, and artA butterfly is like another butterfly. A butterfly is also like a leaf and at the same time like a paper airplane, an o wl?s face, a scholar flying from book to book. The most disparate things approach one another in a butterfly, the sort of dense nodu le of likeness that Roger Caillois once proposed calling a ?bizarre-privileged item.? In response, critical theorist Paul North prop oses a s...[Leer más]