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, List Cultures makes a major contribution to debates about New Materialism and the post-human turn.
Amsterdam University Press, 2012.
ISBN: 9789462981102. 195 pp.
Illus.
Hardcover. Near fine.