List Cultures: Knowledge and Poetics from Mesopotamia to Buzzfeed

by Liam Cole Young

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9462981108
• ISBN13: 9789462981102
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.4"