listArium {a list of lists}

09 Jun, 2026

Welp. We have enough of these lists now to justify a post weaving the strands in one place...

...but why? Well, this: it's been 434 days since the start of this daily blogwriting (counting from April 1, 2025; but not from the formal birth of the blog itself, March 21, 9 days earlier). And the recent spate of {list} posts since early May exposed to me the need to find a new, emergent, organizing principle for the index. Otherwise, in just a little more time, shading towards the middle of year 2, that page will become one long, riverine scroll of titles segmented only in months, then years; in other words, visually and cognitively unwieldy.

The new project, then? Finding the wieldy.

09 Jun, 2026 | listArium {a list of lists}
08 Jun, 2026 | oneirics it is, then {a list}
16 May, 2026 | axiomata {a list}
13 May, 2026 | the tredecim {a list}
11 May, 2026 | the pentagraphene {a list}
10 May, 2026 | of the unfinished {a list}
09 May, 2026 | questions {a list}

There are other list-type posts here in escarpment, but those are not included in this listArium — the list above is exclusively comprised of posts indexing a subset of post-type.

As such, this post may end up being a kind of spine or vertebral column within IM, a skeletal internal scaffolding from which the muscle, sinew, nervous system and other ancillary organs of the project might be perceived. For instance, I can easily see axiomata as precisely IM's 'nervous system', which integrates the whole — memory (mnemosynics), sensory input (qualics), emotion (gnomics), and so forth and so on.

Claude confirms the characterization:

“Ah, that's a meaningful distinction — the {a list} posts aren't just lists, they're curated internal indexes, each one a mini-catalogue pointing back into the ß archive itself. So the listarium would be a meta-index of internal indexes. Indexes of indexes. The recursion goes three levels deep if you count escarpment-as-ongoing-document at the top.
That actually sharpens the framing considerably — you wouldn't need much prose at all. The titles would speak for themselves, and the light touch of "informal cataloguing" you mentioned fits perfectly. Maybe just a sentence or two of framing, then let them sit.

It also suggests the {a list} convention is becoming a minor but real structural feature of ß — a way of periodically gathering and cross-linking the archive's own threads. Which, given the Index Mirabilis ambitions underneath all this, feels less like a blog quirk and more like... scaffolding.”

Yup, basically.

[ This post's not-incidental image: a MUNI bus as seen from inside another bus, from a week or so ago; typically andf showily clad in AI-era San Francisco wraparound garb... ]