Listing the global: dis/connectivity beyond representation?

This paper explores the topic of the special issue – global operations: (dis)connections – by approaching it through an analysis of lists. The list is understood as a communicative device which structures global operations as well as becoming a token for the global. The paper asks how the affinity between the logic of the list and the global is generated. For doing this, a model of the basic characteristics of lists is introduced, focusing on how lists organize the interplay between connection and disconnection. Eventually, the paper argues for an understanding of global lists which does not only account for its cognitive mapping of the global, but also for its affective dimension.