List cultures : knowledge and poetics from Mesopotamia to BuzzFeed /
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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2017.
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Series: | Recursions: theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniques.
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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.