1968 — Jag Mohan, "The Aesthetics of 'Anti-art'", published in Indian Aesthetics and Art Activity, Volume 2, page 258
There is a theory built around [sic], called the "Aleation" Theory, according to which chance or grace plays a role in the composition of any work of art and whatever may be the accidental form involved in the process, the work of art will fall into an order though not in order.
1968 — Frank Kermode, Continuities, page 19
"Aleation" in the arts, I suggested, pushes into absurdity a theory based on observation, that chance or grace plays a role in composition.
1985 — Jan Morris, "Big City Types", Encounter (March), page 62
And finally, as Peter Conrad concluded with aleation, and Jane Jacobs with drift, Professor Hall ends with a suprisingly laissez-faire admission.
1998 — J.E. Elliott, "What was Cultural Studies?: Learning the Uses of Error", published in Studies in the Literary Imagination, Volume 31, page 79
Who “we” are supposed to be, and whether this 'joke' is also a joke or just a “joke,” would lead us, no doubt, Corvick-like down further capillaries of aleation without significant variation on the pattern we have plotted thus far.
