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Liu takes our concern with the fleeting and virtual nature of our relationships today and gives it a historical angle, drawing examples from past societies and their media forms and revealing new ways of seeing history in the continual overwriting and changing of our programming languages.

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"Friending the Past is argued with Alan Liu's characteristic power, and exhibits the high level of creative abstraction that I think of as the signature asset of Romanticists, including Liu. This book is thoughtfully engaged with a breadth of research and is a brilliant observation of our digital milieu, its overarching logics, and underlying conditions."--Lisa Gitelman, New York University

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 10/11/2018
      ISBN13: 9780226451817, 978-0226451817
      ISBN10: 022645181X
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      Literature: history and criticism History of science

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Liu takes our concern with the fleeting and virtual nature of our relationships today and gives it a historical angle, drawing examples from past societies and their media forms and revealing new ways of seeing history in the continual overwriting and changing of our programming languages.

      Trade Review
      "Friending the Past is argued with Alan Liu's characteristic power, and exhibits the high level of creative abstraction that I think of as the signature asset of Romanticists, including Liu. This book is thoughtfully engaged with a breadth of research and is a brilliant observation of our digital milieu, its overarching logics, and underlying conditions."--Lisa Gitelman, New York University

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