When I was a child, I had a recurring nightmare where all that was,
​was a single, literal mass, out of scale with myself, crushing me to death.
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This all-mass is exactly how things are-a metastasis of things, their pseudopodia creeping into and out of each other, some oncology of ontology: the masses and volumes of what is.

How do we apprehend these masses and volumes; how do we embody them? Although several methods exist, a particular analogy could be made to cartography, so instead: how do we map these volumes and their trajectories? ​

​Please, no understanding implied by this cartography-I’ll happily copy the trap streets. ​

The traditional concept of a map is one of a hologram, a copy or substitute created in a lesser dimension. However, this terrain of masses and volumes forces us to construct a map that is still within the dimension we are. Contradiction, it seems, is the only inherent decency we are allowed; the law of noncontradiction is dead.

​No...a zombie.

Creating a map dislodges its accuracy; it is part of what it is charting. SO PERHAPS INSTEAD THIS MAP-CONSTRUCTED-OF-OUR-OWN-DIMENSION COULD BE INTERPRETED THROUGH A FUNCTION, TO RELATE IT TO OBJECTS WE CHOOSE ARBITRARILY NOT TO INCLUDE IN THE MAP.

This choice of exclusion may not matter, as it becomes clear that if the map is indistinguishable from its terrain, how do we know which things aren’t already in the map, or maps themselves? The unsystematized list, with conceptual hat-tipping to Walter Benjamin, Annemarie Mol and John Law, functions as a way to better address this by asking “how might (something) be where it is while also acknowledging that it is not everywhere—how might (something) make room for whatever it also necessarily leaves out?”

WHAT HAVE I LEFT OUT? arzigogolate, 8 Legendary Duels, if we blow up an asteroid it might put itself back together, intertextuality, Lygia Clark, The Lost Weekend, Reversible dynamics with closed time-like curves, Cavalieri, How stalagmites get their shapes, 75 contronyms, teliko-, cladoxylopsids, viking's choice, In event of moon disaster, DOROTHEA ROCKBURNE’S EPHEMERAL ART AND ENDURING LEGACY, 3-SPHERE, ARES: ORBITAL DEBRIS PROGRAM OFFICE DEBRIS MITIGATION, MERONYM, KARST, SATURN DEVOURING HIS SON, ANNE TRUIT, TOO MANY COOKS, THE CHEMISTRY OF METAL-ORGANIC COMPOUNDS, MICHEL SERRES DIES AT 88, THE PSYCHOLOGY BEHIND CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL, ESSENTIAL WORKS BY OULIPO MEMBERS IN ENGLISH, HRW - THE CURSE OF GOLD, THIGMOTROPISM, DIAMONDS IN METEORITE MAY BE LOST PLANETS FRAGMENTS, THIS GAME ABOUT MECHANIZED FIGHTING POTATOES, LARGEST SYNOPTIC SURVEY TELESCOPE, HOW TO MAKE A BULLROARER, JOHN LUTHER ADAMS, AUFHEBEN, THE QUANTUM SOURCE OF SPACE-TIME, MAXWELL’S DEMON, IN THE DUST OF THIS PLANET.