The CATALOGUE
A list, register, enumeration; systematic or methodical arrangement
To make a catalogue or list of
To CLASSIFY
To arrange in or analyze into classes according to shared qualities or characteristics; to make a formal or systematic classification of
To assign to a position within a formal system of classification
(Alternate usage: To designate as officially secret)
CLASSIC
Archetypal; typical of its kind; representative
HYBRID
A conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts
REPURPOSE
To use or convert for use in another format or product
NOSTALGIA
A yearning for the past, often in idealized form
The pain or ache to return home
Homesickness
Described as a medical condition, a type of melancholy, in the Early Modern period
The good old days, viewed through an idyllic lens
A longing to go back to a particular period of time
Creating an idealized form from memory
UNCANNY
Das unheimliche; literally, un-home-ly; idiomatically scary, creepy
Something familiar yet foreign, resulting in a feeling of it being uncomfortably strange
Because the uncanny is familiar yet strange, it often creates cognitive dissonance due to the paradoxical nature of being attracted and repulsed at the same time; this often leads to outright rejection, as one would rather reject than rationalize.
When the familiar is no longer that; when home is no longer home
Exploring use / repurposing of the catalogue, the human desire to classify / catalogue.
Something catalogued is at once itself and something not itself; it becomes an element in a system, an object with markers, viewed as a collection of characteristics rather than a whole.
Cataloguing / classifying as a way to understand a thing; achieve distance from it; perspective; separation.
Examples of repurposing of the catalogue:
Fight Club / IKEA catalog scene
Artists' approach to cataloguing:
http://www.pahomann.com/jd/jd.php
http://jennyodell.wordpress.com/parking-lots-and-overpasses/
http://mixedgreens.com/artist/Coke-Wisdom-ONeal-16/work/Stranger-Face-718.html
