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List cultures : knowledge and poetics from Mesopotamia to BuzzFeed
Author
Title
List cultures : knowledge and poetics from Mesopotamia to BuzzFeed / Liam Cole Young.
ISBN
9789462981102
9462981108
9789048530670
9048530679
Publication
Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]
Copyright Notice Date
©2017
Physical Description
195 pages ; 25 cm.
Summary
We live in an age of lists, from magazine features to online clickbait. This book situates the list in a long tradition, asking key questions about the list as a cultural and communicative form. What, Liam Cole Young asks, can this seemingly innocuous form tell us about historical and contemporary media environments and logistical networks? Connecting German theories of cultural techniques to Anglo-American approaches that address similar issues, 'List Cultures' makes a major contribution to debates about New Materialism and the post-human turn.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 18, 2019
Series
Recursions: theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniques
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-189) and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. History: Lists and Media Materialism
2. Epistemology: Pop Music Charts and the Making of a Cultural Field
3. Administration I: The State, the Fact, and Double-Entry Bookkeeping
4. Administration II: The Nazi Census and Making Up People
5. Logistics: Listicles, Algorithms, and Real Time
6. Poetics: Uncanny Modernity in Heidegger, Borges, and Marker.
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Genre/Form
History.
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