![]() | Information Fantasies: Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China Subjects: Information society -- China; China -- Intellectual life -- 1976 -- Technological forecasting -- China; Future The in popular culture; Winner of the Science Fiction Research Association Book Award Anticipating discussions on information surveillance, data collection, and precarious labor conditions today, Xiao Liu goes far beyond the current scholarship on internet and digital culture in China, questioning the limits of current new-media theory and history, while also salvaging postsocialism from the persistent Cold War structure of knowledge production. Ranging over forgotten science fiction, unjustly neglected films, corporeal practices such as qigong, scientific journals, advertising, and cybernetic theories, Information Fantasies constructs an alternate genealogy of digital and information imaginaries--one that will change how we look at the development of the postsocialist world and the emergence of digital technologies. Xiao Liu is assistant professor of East Asian studies at McGill University. |
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