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I'm around a quarter of the way into Umberto Eco's The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana. So far, the novel is fascinating. An antiquarian bookseller in Italy loses his memory and tries to recover it by revisiting publications, people, and experiences. Full Article at Execupundit
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In this manner, the listicle is not a depressing instance of pandering but a nourishing expression of a natural and elemental part of human culture. Or at least that's what you can put on your Maggies entry. Full Article at Gawker
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Italian writer and academic Umberto Eco is pictured on September 30, 2009 in Paris, at Le Louvre museum, while presenting his choice of works for the exhibition entitled, 'Mille e tre'. View Photo »
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Italian novelist and semiotician Umberto Eco, who is curating a new exhibition at the Louvre in Paris, talks to SPIEGEL about the place lists hold in the history of culture, the ways we try to avoid thinking about death and why Google is dangerous for... Full Article at Splice Today
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The author sees lists as falling into two (very Eco-ist) categories: "those that evidence the 'poetics of 'everything included'' and those that express the 'poetics of the 'etcetera'." Full Article at ArtsJournal
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Italian author Umberto Eco was interviewed last week by the German publication Spiegel. The interview ‘We Like Lists Because We Don’t Want to Die’ discusses Eco’s recent involvement with curating an exhibition at the Louvre in Paris. Full Article at Unclutterer
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Italian writer and academic Umberto Eco is pictured on September 30, 2009 in Paris, at Le Louvre museum, while presenting his choice of works for the exhibition entitled, 'Mille e tre'. View Photo »
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It makes me very nervous to disagree with Umberto Eco because he is so fathomlessly smart. But I think in this case I do. Sort of. The list is the origin of culture. It’s part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? Full Article at Joho the Blog
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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? Full Article at Marginal Revolution
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