In her 2016 book Pond, Claire-Louise Bennett poses the incompatibility between words and things as a comic problem—and then offers a formal response to that problem.
“Words” ∈ “Books” ∈ “Culture” ≠> “Culture” = “Books” = “Words”
I love words. And I love books. And I have been known to fall in love with a couple databases (specifically those I don’t have to compile myself).