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enumerations

there is something special about making enumerations. collected here are a few

of my own. none of them are complete.

the infinity of lists

we like lists because we dont want to die

— umberto eco

to include, to exclude.

- descriptive lists - limited by the form of the thing itself

- catalogue lists - unlimited by form; an attempt to capture the infiniteness,

indefiniteness of reality

- visual lists - picture galleries as realizations of the concept of "etcetera"

- ineffeable list - an attempt to describe the indescribable (e.g. apocalypse

7.9)

- lists of things - ineffable obssesive collections of objects

- lists of places - ineffable descriptions of place, to situate in space in time

- the pragmatic list - finite, referential, concrete, temporal, immutable

- the poetic list - phonetic

- lists of properties - essential properities (ones it must have) and

accidental properties (ones it has, but could lack)

- the non-normal list - a (recursive) list that includes itself (i.e. think of [russel's paradox])

lists as creators of form.

lists as the driver of climax.

lists as a way to reshuffle the world.

- enumeratio - a form of "argumentation, in which all the possibilities are set

out and all but one are eliminated." figure of amplification in which a

subject is divided into constituent parts or details, and may include a

listing of causes, effects, problems, solutions, conditions, and

consequences; the listing or detailing of the parts of something.

lists as wonders

like [merveilles].

- mirabilia - wonders, marvels (latin)

- wunderkammer - wonder-rooms (german)

references

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Gemini Links:

index and recent changes

directory of all pages

merveilles

Web Links:

russel's paradox