Unpredictability serves as a futile strategy against being categorized by others.

Evidence

It is, however, difficult to find any content in Lulu’s stimulating behavior, which seems organized around sheer caprice; that is to say, around the supreme value of remaining unpredictable and immune to reification and categorization. Shades of Andre Gide, in Lafcadio Adventures, or of all those Sartrean characters desperately attempting to evade that ultimate objectification by another’s Look (it is impossible, and they end up simply being labeled “capricious”). — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 638

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader project of distinguishing aesthetic form from the waning of affect — Jameson reads caprice as empty formalism, the corollary of pastiche’s affectlessness.