List Cultures

This volume makes a major contribution to debates about New Materialism and the post-human turn.

Liam Cole Young , Ph.D., is a faculty member in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, where he writes and teaches about media and cultural materialism. He has published in Theory, Culture, and Society, Canadian Journal of Communication, and Amodern..

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.