A&HH6577-9/08/A2

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To locate a person, place, or thing directly, singling it out from a range of possibilities through a system of random access, it must have a name, an ID of some sort that differentiates it from other persons, places, and things, and it must have a knowable address that locates it in time and space, enabling one to seek it out, directly on ones own volition. As places, cities are complicated networks of names and associated addresses, enabling a myriad of different interactions to take place. Naming and addressing are skills that have developed historically and the history of naming and addressing has yet to be suitably studied. Let us spend the period brainstorming about different kinds of names, about the way they work, how named entities get addressed, and what sorts of interactions those techniques make possible.

• Discussion Reading
  Homer, The Odyssey, Richard Lattimore, trans. (New York: Harper Colophon Books, 1975), Books 6-9, pp. 102-151. Electronic Reserve.