List cultures : knowledge and poetics from Mesopotamia to BuzzFeed

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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 m...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Young, Liam Cole (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2017.
Series:Recursions: theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniques.
Subjects:
Knowledge, Sociology of.
sociology of knowledge.
Media studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
COMPUTERS > Information Technology.
Knowledge, Sociology of
Wissenssoziologie
Liste
Lists, cultural techniques, media archaeology, epistemology, logistics.
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • History : lists and media materialism
  • Epistemology : pop music charts and the making of a cultural field
  • Administration I : the state, the fact, and double-entry bookkeeping
  • Administration II : the Nazi census and making up people
  • Logistics : listicles, algorithms, and real time
  • Poetics : uncanny modernity in Heidegger, Borges, and Marker.

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