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Postmodernity is lived, it seems, at the end of history. This book 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 and digital information technology.

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"This book is a reflection of and on a nearly twenty-year career. It is as much a work of history as of literary and cultural critique, as much a narrative and a piece of performance art as it is philosophical investigation and Nietzschean genealogy. Alan Liu is sui generis." - Marjorie Levinson, University of Michigan"

Local Transcendence Essays on Postmodern

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 01/10/2008
      ISBN13: 9780226486963, 978-0226486963
      ISBN10: 0226486966
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      Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Postmodernity is lived, it seems, at the end of history. This book 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 and digital information technology.

      Trade Review
      "This book is a reflection of and on a nearly twenty-year career. It is as much a work of history as of literary and cultural critique, as much a narrative and a piece of performance art as it is philosophical investigation and Nietzschean genealogy. Alan Liu is sui generis." - Marjorie Levinson, University of Michigan"

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