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** Latour Litanizer
[[https://melpa.org/#/litanize][file:https://melpa.org/packages/litanize-badge.svg]]
“When writing Alien Phenomenology I found myself wondering, what would happen if we put ontography, Latour Litany, and carpentry together? Heres one simple take, a 'Latour Litanizer.' It uses Wikipedias 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.”
—Ian Bogost
“[The] Latour Litanizer might be the first genuine piece of laboratory equipment ever created for philosophy.”
—Levi R. Bryant
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.
** Litanizing
The litanizer can be installed from [[https://melpa.org/][MELPA]] or manually via [[https://github.com/zzkt/litanizer][github]].
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(use-package litanize
:config (defalias 'insert-litany #'litanize-at-point))
#+END_SRC
A litany can be generated in its own buffer, in the current buffer or programmatically as required.
~M-x litanize~ will generate a litany in a new buffer
~M-x litanize-at-point~ will generate a litany at the point
** Further
- [[http://bogost.com/writing/blog/latour_litanizer/][Latour Litanizer. Generate your own Latour Litanies]]
- [[http://bogost.com/writing/blog/a_litany_of_litanies/][A Litany of Litanies. Reactions to the Latour Litanizer]]
- [[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)]]