List cultures : : knowledge and poetics from Mesopotamia to BuzzFeed / / Liam Cole Young.

• Superior document: Recursions: theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniques
• VerfasserIn: Young, Liam Cole,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Recursions: theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniques.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (195 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Dec 2020).

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.

Table of 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.