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there is something special about making enumerations. collected here are a few
of my own. none of them are complete.
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.
like [merveilles].
- mirabilia - wonders, marvels (latin)
- wunderkammer - wonder-rooms (german)
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