فرهنگ‌های فهرست: دانش و شعر از بین‌النهرین تا بازخورد

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 Inspired by the ubiquity of rankings, bullet points, and registries in contemporary 'list culture' and by Jack Goody's famous question 'What's in a list?' (1977), this book explores the list as a cultural and communicative form. It traces the list through a variety of contexts in an anarchaeological wandering (Zielinski) that reveals aspects of its role and function in human thought and action. I ask: how can this seemingly innocuous form be studied? What does its analysis tell us about historical and contemporary media environments and logistical networks? What can studying this unconventional object bring to Media Studies? The book contributes to contemporary debates around New Materialism and the post- or non-human turn. It is one of the first books from English-speaking Media Studies to offer a serious engagement with German theories of cultural techniques. In connecting these to Anglo-American approaches that address similar issues, the book provides an alternative engagement with German media theory for English audiences that have previously been exposed primarily to the more technical German tradition of Friedrich Kittler and Wolfgang Ernst. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie Table of Contents 5 Acknowledgements 7 Preface 9 Introduction 11 1. History: Lists and Media Materialism 23 2. Epistemology: Pop Music Charts and the Making of a Cultural Field 45 3. Administration I: The State, the Fact, and Double-Entry Bookkeeping 67 4. Administration II: The Nazi Census and Making Up People 85 5. Logistics: Listicles, Algorithms, and Real Time 109 6. Poetics: Uncanny Modernity in Heidegger, Borges, and Marker 131 Conclusion: Etcetera 153 Notes 157 Bibliography 179 Index 191

The first English-language book on Germany's 'best-known important filmmaker'