Call for papers: Special issue of Punctum 9:1 (2023) “The Meaning of Collections between Media and Practices” (Guest editors: Gabriele Marino and Bruno Surace)
In 2009, in an essay that was to become famous, Umberto Eco associated the list with a kind of dizzying, vertigo-like semiotic mode of accumulation and categorization. The list, the catalog, the register, the inventory, are indeed quasi-synonyms, all united by their belonging to a specific semantic area: they refer to a set of things,…
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