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** Latour Litanizer
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"When writing Alien Phenomenology I found myself wondering, what would happen if we put ontography, Latour Litany, and carpentry together? Here’s one simple take, a 'Latour Litanizer.' It uses Wikipedia’s random page API to generate lists of things [...] Like all Latour Litanies, this little gadget underscores the rich diversity of things. It also reminds us that human beings are among them, since a large number of Wikipedia articles describe living and historical persons."
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—Ian Bogost
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"[The] Latour Litanizer might be the first genuine piece of laboratory equipment ever created for philosophy."
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—Levi R. Bryant
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This is a simple version of Ian Bogost's method of generating "Latour Litanies" in emacs as a further (or furthering) exercise in ontography, metaphorism, and carpentry.
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** Litanizing
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~M-x litanize~ will generate a litany in a new buffer
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~M-x insert-litany~ will generate a litany at the point
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** Further
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- [[http://bogost.com/writing/blog/latour_litanizer/][Latour Litanizer. Generate your own Latour Litanies]]
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- [[http://bogost.com/writing/blog/a_litany_of_litanies/][A Litany of Litanies. Reactions to the Latour Litanizer]]
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- [[http://ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com/2016/10/why-latour-litanies-dont-use-adjectives.html][Why Latour Litanies Don't Use Adjectives (in case you were wondering)]]
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