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List cultures: knowledge and poetics from Mesopotamia to BuzzFeed

By Young , Liam Cole

Book information

Publisher
Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9789462981102, 9462981108
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2715553 bytes)
Series
Recursions: theories of media materiality and cultural techniques
Pages
195 Seiten ; 25 cm\197
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
KnowledgeSociology of;Liste;Wissenssoziologie

Description

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.

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