Appliance House is deliberately inconsistent. Its onto-teleology is permitted to mutate and to (de)evolve through a series of programmatic half-lives. "Each time its program changes, its life is split, reconfigured." (Nicholson: 15)
By fall of 1995, the program of Appliance House comprised an encyclopedic task. The House was projected as a space for containing and granting access to all human knowledge.
This undertaking was not imposed by edict. Rather, it has been evolving within the space of Appliance House from the beginning. The first room of the House, the Kleptoman Cell, was initially conceptualized as a place for the mania of collecting, organizing and holding.
It is this same mania that animates the modern encyclopedist and information junkie from Denis Diderot to Tim Berners-Lee.
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