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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Liam Cole, author.

Series:

Recursions: theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniques.

Recursions: theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniques

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (195 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Dec 2020).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-189) and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed October 02 2025)

ISBN:

1-003-69893-X

1-04-079629-X

90-485-3067-9

9781003698937

OCLC:

1051222488

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access