How do lists actually work, and above all, what is their relationship to other forms of text? According to Ann Cotten, both lists and concrete poetry share a certain nakedness, a reduction to a few linguistic effects that are presented with great clarity and can certainly be read in the sense of an experimental arrangement. "After the World" documents a descriptive capture of as many variations of "list-like" qualities in literature as possible and illustrates this with numerous examples from contemporary literature.