This reading was short, therefore had my attention. (Well at least the reading I chose)

Lists in literature “refuse the connecting powers of language“(40)

I often write shopping or to do lists on a daily basis in shorthand, confusing to someone who is unaware of the context

In saying that there is a “problem with lists” (40) I do feel as though someone is looking into lists being something more than they are, intact this person must have a pretty mundane life if they are analysing lists in the first place.

I was more interested with how it made me think about why and what we name things, like “lighthouse” which is rather literal but it made me play the name game with every object in my house.

Bogost, Ian. Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing. Minneapolis: University Press of Minnesota, 2012. Print. (PDF)

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