Everything that stands out as noteworthy is essentially one recurring trace

Evidence

How some of these things attracted attention we will now try to tell and to mark: lovingly, marking in the telling of them, and in the marking attending to that which has been told. They are little traits from life and other things which were somehow not forgotten; nowadays there’s a lot worth throwing away. But that older impulse was there too, to listen to stories, good and inconsequential alike, stories of different sorts and from different times, noteworthy stories, which, if they come to their end, have to end by touching us. It’s a reading of traces everywhere, in all directions, in bits and pieces variously divided. For in the long run, everything that meets us, everything we notice particularly, is one and the same.” — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 245

Categorization

• XREF: The unity of all noteworthy traces under one Mark anticipates Bloch’s doctrine of the identity of the Not-Yet across domains — a claim Jameson elsewhere reads against ‘difference’ thinking; connects to Adorno’s insistence on the non-identical.
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that every particular that arrests us is ultimately one and the same trace is a dense resolution of the universal-particular dialectic — worth sitting with beyond a single summary.