cf lou reed, lamont young, and an interest in form, as in seems, semblance, zembla
eg de-form, trans-form and, FORM DESTROYER (pkd) and, FORMLESS (Battaille) ‘formless is not only an adjective… but a term serving to render déclassé the requirement that each thing have its own form… Actually, for academics to be happy would require the universe to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal… On the other hand, to say that the universe resembles nothing and is nothing but formless is the same as saying that the universe is like a spider or a blob of spit '. not base but liberating