{"product_id":"bizarre-privileged-items-in-the-universe-paul-north-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\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul North\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1942130465\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781942130468\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Zone Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/23\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.30d","brand":"Paul North","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44044683837695,"sku":"9781942130468","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b02950dd-8f6f-436c-a9c0-635514093150.jpg?v=1684974276","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bizarre-privileged-items-in-the-universe-paul-north-9781942130468","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}