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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Main Author: Young, Liam Cole ca. 20./21. Jh (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2020
Series:Recursions: theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniques
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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
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Dec 2020)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (195 Seiten)
ISBN:9789048530670
DOI:10.1017/9789048530670

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