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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2017.
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Colección: | Recursions: theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniques.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.