List Cultures: Knowledge and Poetics from Mesopotamia to Buzzfeed

List Cultures: Knowledge and Poetics from Mesopotamia to Buzzfeed

Liam Cole Young
$105.00
Publication Date: October 15th, 2017
Publisher:
Amsterdam University Press
ISBN:
9789462981102
Pages:
196

Description

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.
 

About the Author

Liam Cole Young is a faculty member in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

Praise for List Cultures: Knowledge and Poetics from Mesopotamia to Buzzfeed

"List Cultures is an important book, both from a scientific and a societal point of view, which brilliantly illustrates the role humanities can and must play in debates that may seem unhospitable to them, but that are cruelly in need of the broader civilizational approach updated by Young."
— Leonardo

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