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l3~ewdney almost evokes the theories of Foucault,
who argues that natural history is a quotidian discourse
that attempts to decompose, then recompose, its own
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language:
" [ i ] t leaps over the everyday vocabulary that
provides it with its immediate ground, and beyond that
ground it searches for that which could have constituted its
raison d'être; but, inversely, it resides in its entirety in
the area of language, since it is essentially a concerted
use of names and since its ultimate aim is to give things
their true denomination" (1973: 161 ).
"~he Governor represents a restricted econorny of
function and utility (the prosaic boredom of habit and
clichk). The Parasite represents a generalized economy of
dysfunction and inutility (the poetic freedom of crime and
flair). A parasite signifies the entropy of a system, the
noise that depletes the information from its own scale of
order, but that nevertheless augments the information of a
another scale of order. A poet disrupts communication, not
simply to break it down, but to make it more complex--to
accentuate the potential for both anomaly and novelty.