Lydia H. Liu is Wun Tsun Tam Professor of Humanities at Columbia University and Director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Her research fields are modern China, intercultural exchange, and global transformation in the modern age. She writes about the international shifting of words and theories as well as the evolution of writing, textuality, and media technologies.
Language is more than just phonetics, it is information. The literary scholar Lydia H. Lui describes how, after World War II, different scientific disciplines – from cybernetics, linguistics, and psychoanalysis to molecular biology – participated in the inscription of alphabetic written language into digital information processes, thus creating a new species, the “Freudian Robot”. To article...
