Full 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.
Contents
Preface, Introduction: List Cultures 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 and algorithms in real time 6. Poetics: Uncanny modernity in Heidegger, Borges, and Marker Conclusion: Etcetera, Notes, Bibliography, Index.
