Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read.
Start by marking “Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database” as Want to Read:
Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database
by
Alan Liu
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 Tra ...more
In the essays collected in Local Tra ...more
Hardcover, 408 pages
Published
November 28th 2008
by University Of Chicago Press
(first published November 1st 2008)
Friend Reviews
To see what your friends thought of this book,
please sign up.
Reader Q&A
To ask other readers questions about
Local Transcendence,
please sign up.
Be the first to ask a question about Local Transcendence
This book is not yet featured on Listopia.
Add this book to your favorite list »
Community Reviews
(showing 1-7 of 7)
There are no discussion topics on this book yet.
Be the first to start one »
