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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Young, Liam Cole (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2017.
Collection:Recursions: theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniques.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.