List cultures knowledge and poetics from Mesopotamia to BuzzFeed

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 m...

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Main Author: Young, Liam Cole
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2017, 2017©2017
Series:Recursions: theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniques
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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