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You may find out more about my own odd structures at o-matic: http://www.o-matic.com
Here is a brief and ongoing list of art related to, created with or about taxonomy:

LIT:
Species of Spaces, Georges Perec
Bouvard and Pecuchet, Gustav Flaubert
The Pillow Book, Sei Shonagon

VIS ART:
Beth Campbell: if/then trees in pencil on paper
Mark Dion: (very funny) art installations about George Couvier

CINEMA:
Zed and Two Noughts, Peter Greenaway

SOUND:
Colors, Ken Nordine

MISCELLANEOUS TAXONOMIES OF VARYING DEGREES OF INTEREST:
LAUGHTER:
According to the Buddhist scholastics there are six classes of laughter: (a) sita, a faint smile manifest in facial expression only; (b) hasita, a smile which slightly reveals the teeth; (c) vihasita, a smile accompanied by a modicum of laughter; (d) upahasita, pronounced laughter associated with a movement of head, shoulders, and arms; (e) apahasita, laughter that brings tears; and (f) atihasita, uproarious laughter accompanied by doubling over, hysterics, etc. It is understood that only the first two classes are acceptable in polite society, with the last two in particular being characteristic of the uncultured lower classes. It is interesting that, in this schematization, the Buddha is supposed to have only indulged in sita, the most serene, subtle, and refined form of laughter. Cf. Shwe Zan Aung, The Compendium of Philosophy, a translation of the Abhidhammattha-Sangaha, rev. and ed. by Mrs. Rhys Davids (London: Luzac & Co., Ltd., 1910), pp. 22-25.
SEE ALSO: http://vedabase.net/nod/45/en
http://oaks.nvg.org/se6ra3.html

There is also a book on the taxonomy of laughter by Henri Bergson, entitled:
Comedy: An Essay on Comedy/Laughter

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