{"product_id":"the-little-database-volume-64-a-poetics-of-media-formats-hardback-9781517918811","title":"The Little Database Volume 64; A Poetics of Media Formats (Hardback) 9781517918811","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Little Database Volume 64\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Poetics of Media Formats\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDaniel Scott Snelson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517918811\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 24 June 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages, 71 black and white illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 0.7 cm, 0.425 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eThe Little Database\u003c\/i\u003e is an incredibly powerful intervention into twenty-first-century experimental poetics and avant-garde media practices. It’s an absolute delight to read Daniel Scott Snelson’s critical engagement with digital media as a literary and artistic form. His sociopoetical method provides an exciting approach that goes beyond both close reading and large-scale computational data analysis.\" - Stephanie Boluk, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eMetagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"With an extraordinary eye for detail, Daniel Scott Snelson opens up the space between big data and close reading, leveraging the signification of ‘media’ in its most capacious sense: materiality, file format, distribution network, platform, infrastructure, community. The results dazzle with eye-opening insight, astonish with breathtaking interpretive acrobatics, and invite with the infectious delight of discovering how many vast worlds lodge within the little.\" - Craig Dworkin, author of \u003ci\u003eDictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA poetics for reading the everyday objects that populate a hard drive\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bespoke online archives like \u003ci\u003ePennSound\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEclipse\u003c\/i\u003e host an astounding array of “old media” artifacts, posing a handcrafted counterpoint to the immense databases aggregated by digital titans like Google and Facebook. In \u003ci\u003eThe Little Database, \u003c\/i\u003eDaniel Scott Snelson argues for the significance of these comparatively “small” collections, exploring how digital archives dramatically transform the artifacts they host and how they might help us better understand our own private collections in turn. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Examining curated collections such as \u003ci\u003eTextz, UbuWeb, \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eElectronic Poetry Center, \u003c\/i\u003eSnelson explores media-specific works by poets and artists, including William Carlos Williams, Tracie Morris, bill bissett, Nam June Paik, and Vicki Bennett. He develops creative tools and contingent methods for reading cultural data, whether found on the internet or in our own collections of TXT, JPG, MP3, and MOV artifacts, presenting case studies to show how these objects have come to find revised meaning in their digital contexts. Along the way, experimental poetic interludes give readers practical entry points into the creative practice of producing new meanings in any given little database. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Inventive and interdisciplinary, \u003ci\u003eThe Little Database\u003c\/i\u003e grapples with the digitized afterlives of cultural objects, showing how the past is continually reconfigured to shape the present. It invites readers to find playful and personal means for unpacking their own data collections, in the process discovering idiosyncratic ways to explore and connect with digital archives. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRetail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and\/or extended descriptions.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e Contents \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Introduction. Reading the Little Database \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 1. Textwarez: The Executable Files of \u003ci\u003eTextz.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Interlude 1. \u003ci\u003eEXE TXT\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 2. Distributing Services: Periodical Preservation and \u003ci\u003eEclipse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Interlude 2. \u003ci\u003eL\u0026amp;ne;A\u0026amp;ne;N\u0026amp;ne;G\u0026amp;ne;U\u0026amp;ne;A\u0026amp;ne;G\u0026amp;ne;E\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 3. Live Vinyl MP3: Echo Chambers among the Little Databases \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Interlude 3. Also This: No Title \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 4. Dropping the Frame: From Film to Database \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Interlude 4. \u003ci\u003eFlash Artifacts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Epilogue. The \u003ci\u003eEPC\u003c\/i\u003e: On the Persistence of Obsolescent Networks \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Acknowledgments.zip \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Notes \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52619261215000,"sku":"9781517918811","price":65.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-little-database-volume-64-a-poetics-of-media-formats-hardback-9781517918811","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}