/lit/ - Literature

I'm enjoying this way more than I expected to. Is he talking about Guy Davenport here or a different one?

>What you have here, he says, is a quiddity trap.
>Quiddity, the whatness of an object, is the essential, the nature of a thing as an instance of its class. Haccaeity, the thisness of an object, is the existential, the nature of a thing as construct of quirks defying reduction to quiddity. In the era of Davenport, the deluge of machined objects made for an angst of drowning. Without the notion of projectivity, where was the haccaeity of factoried chow and togs, flatpack fittings and gimcrack commodities? Where even the thisness in a pleasure become parlance, formulated for replication as geekware loaded in the meat machines? In the Society of the Spectacle, as she herself has lived the fallout of, post-modernity, post-singularity, even a human seemed all quiddity, quirks merely the unique settings of shared attributes. Skinsacks with a tuple of signifiers inside that could be scanned into a simulacrum—geist as soul, Ana would say, for those who scorned superstition but could not surrender it.
>Davenport broached a new paradigm in abolition of quiddity, his supposition: that in every corral of objects abstractable to a class by common attributes and behaviours, every object in that corral is not merely distinct in its unique mix of attribute settings but cannot be fully described without recourse to attributes inapplicable to all others of its class.
>Not only is this electron not equal to that electron, but it is not equivalent.

I get the gist otherwise but wanted to be sure.

I am enjoying this way more than I expected to.

>experimental
>transgressive
It's hard gay, but that comes with the territory.

WEW LADDIE THIS IS SOME THICK BROGUEISH PROSE.