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Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]

1 online resource (195 pages)

ISBN 9789048530670 (e-book)

ISBN 9789462981102

Recursions: theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniques

Print version: Young, Liam Cole. List cultures : knowledge and poetics from Mesopotamia to BuzzFeed. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, c2017 195 pages Recursions: theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniques. ISBN 9789462981102

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-189) and index

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..

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(OCoLC)1051222488