Umberto Eco: The Vertigo of Lists - France

November 2009

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Launches new book throughout November

Its a big month for Italian writer and semiotician Umberto Eco. As his new book The Vertigo of Lists is released in 10 languages, he also takes on the honoured role of guest curator at the Louvre.
Ecos book is about enumeration lists without a system. Eco believes the world is saturated with infinite lists, found in everything from classic literature, to shop windows. The window-display is a long, enticing list, designed to make us want to buy. Now Eco has taken on the curators role at the Louvre. Museums also illustrate enumeration perfectly. Each museum is a huge row of separate pieces seemingly without order, except to the curator. But all these catalogues have been torn apart by the mass of information we call the internet. It is the list to end all lists. It is an infinite collection of data. And it has one thing in common with all lists: total disorder.

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[aruizi]

Obviously, the only jackass here is you... not a supreme one, just normal and mediocre.

By the way, seems like you have no f*** idea about Eco's works, the way he constructs his stories and sort of that. Naturally, reading what you've told, it's completely natural that you don't understand a word. Don't even try.

[vikramkrishnan]

He looks like Hercule Poirot :P

[ramseq09]

can you please provide the name of the song while Professor Eco is walking

[kevin1746]

@occultologist

Nothing new there, been happening for 1000 years

[kevin1746]

@occultologist

hardly a secret then....thats the problem with all this secret orgnaisation nonsense......none of it is secret.

And everybody forgets the 'elite' fall and suffer just the same as everybody else...they are just rich human beings making themselves richer...just like the self -publisists and authors that invent this stuff

[votumseparatum1]

@kevin1746 you're an idiot. If the world is the same then wouldn't that mean the SAME families who are considered the elites STILL exist? The Rothschild still exist, Rockfellers and many other wealthy families exist - they have not change in terms of wealth or goals. The NWO idea is real. You can see it with the IMF and how they put countries into debt. See it with globalism - who benefits the MOST from it? The ELITES, you ignoramus.

[Arghira]

4:09 you egomaniac !!!

[Glinkaism1]

For sure has full lower jaw dentures.

[calumjlindsay]

0:12 - babe.

[Etcher]

@kevin1746 wake up man - /watch?v=K5lByw7kvS0

[kevin1746]

@Etcher and you spend to much time worrying about the new entertainment channel called THE INTERNET..get out in the sun more