Alan Sondheim (b. 1943, Pennsylvania) is an artist, critic, and poet whose work predominately deals with theories of cyberspace. This exploration has taken on a variety of forms, from Cybermind (an email list dedicated to conversations around the philosophy and psychology of cyberspace he co-moderates with Michael Current) to codework (a genre of writing wherein computer language is used as a medium for artistic expression, made popular by Sondheim and other Internet Artists such as Mez Breeze and Duc Thuan) to several books, essays, and articles (including Being On Line: Net Subjectivity (1997), .echo (2001), and “Writing Under” (2012), among others).
Lists (1971) is a book that takes the form of one long list comprised of a series of sentences that each build upon the one prior. Because of this, it reads like a list more than it does a book-length, run-on paragraph. The text itself is a poetic-philosophical reflection on the body and presence, abjection, and person-object relations as they pertain to virtual life.
