Very interested in Miles C's - haven't read Watten for years, but
what is he doing with analogy now, I wonder? A good scholastic
concept, pace academicism. I associate analogy with people like
Michel Deguy who says that's it's the possibility of resemblance
across and within a field of difference that is surprising, not
difference as such, ie an ungrounded resemblance which is at the root
of metaphor. But is analogy in Watten something happening in the
microsphere which has lateral implications for a larger practice?
I also pick up mention of Paul Virilio, who, although a rather
smash and grab thinker, is important to me - some mention on
Saturday. There is a review of Open Sky in London Rev Books by John
Kerrigan(16 Oct). He (PV) is a man with one idea, but it's an
important one - though his own analogies do run away with him.
Peter
Peter Larkin
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University of Warwick Library
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