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Typewritings 02: The List is the Origin of Culture

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16 Mar
A top down view of a typewritten page set on a vintage typewriter. The page is a creased sheet of kraft packaging paper. The typewritten text is titled The List Is The Origin Of Culture and is contained in the body of blog post. The background of the photo is a wooden desktop and part of a houseplant can be seen in the top left corner.

The list is the origin of culture. It’s part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order — not always, but often. And how, as a human being, does one face infinity? How does one attempt to grasp the incomprehensible? Through lists, through catalogs, through collections in museums and through encyclopedias and dictionaries …

Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco is an Italian novelist and semiotician (someone who analyzes systems of communication). And a fan of the humble list, as I am too.

This is an excerpt from an in-depth 2009 interview in which Umberto talks about lists in the history of culture and the pitfalls of Google searches.


Typed with a 1950’s Groma Kolibri on salvaged kraft packaging paper from an online delivery.

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