List cultures : : knowledge and poetics from Mesopotamia to BuzzFeed / / Liam Cole Young.
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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| Superior document: | Recursions: theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniques |
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| 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.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (195 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Dec 2020). |
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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.