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Local transcendence : essays on postmodern historicism and the database /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago, IL :
University of Chicago Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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-incl. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 392 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0226486966 9780226486963 0226486958 9780226486956 9780226486970 0226486974 |