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previously unpublished essays and a synthetic introduction in which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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