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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Young, Liam (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]
Colección:Recursions
Temas:
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Film, Media, and Communication.
Media Studies.
COMPUTERS / Information Technology.
Lists, cultural techniques, media archaeology, epistemology, logistics.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Conclusion: Etcetera
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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