Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database - Couverture souple

Liu, Alan

 
9780226486963: Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database
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ISBN 10 : 0226486966 ISBN 13 : 9780226486963
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2008

Synopsis

Driven by global economic forces to innovate, today’s society paradoxically looks forward to the future while staring only at the nearest, most local present—the most recent financial quarter, the latest artistic movement, the instant message or blog post at the top of the screen. Postmodernity is lived, it seems, at the end of history.
In the essays collected in Local Transcendence, Alan Liu takes the pulse of such postmodern historicism by tracking two leading indicators of its acceleration in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: postmodern cultural criticism—including the new historicism, the new cultural history, cultural anthropology, the new pragmatism, and postmodern and postindustrial theory—and digital information technology. What is the relation between the new historicist anecdote and the database field, Liu asks, and can either have a critical function in the age of postmodern historicism? Local Transcendence includes two previously unpublished essays and a synthetic introduction in which Liu traverses from his earlier work on the theory of historicism to his recent studies of information culture to propose a theory of contingent method incorporating a special inflection of history: media history.

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À propos de l?auteur

Alan Liu is Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His previous books include Wordsworth: The Sense of History, and two books published by the University of Chicago Press, The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information and Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0226486966
ISBN 13 
9780226486963
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
404
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9780226486956: Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database

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ISBN 10 :  0226486958 ISBN 13 :  9780226486956
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2008
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