Xiao Liu is assistant professor of East Asian studies at McGill University.
Although the scale of the information economy and the impact of digital media on social life in China today could pale that of any other country, the story of their emergence in the post-Mao sociopolitical environment remains untold. Information Fantasies offers a revisionist account of the emergence of the “information society,” arguing that it was not determined by the technology of digitization alone but developed out of a set of techno-cultural imaginations and practices that arrived alongside postsocialism.
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.
發表於2024-11-26
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圖書標籤: 文化研究 網絡社會學 社會學 信息 媒體研究 資本主義 海外中國研究 氣功
曆史視角、文本分析、媒體研究結閤的很好。彼時西方世界AI研究興起,中國的“新時期”亦踏歌而來。錢學森、氣功研究、人工智能、科幻小說及至今天的AI、cloud computing、crowdsourcing,當初的妙想在科技上一步步實現,而在日常生活的政治上一步步化為泡影甚至反諷。
評分信息技術的中國史前史。
評分信息技術的中國史前史。
評分曆史視角、文本分析、媒體研究結閤的很好。彼時西方世界AI研究興起,中國的“新時期”亦踏歌而來。錢學森、氣功研究、人工智能、科幻小說及至今天的AI、cloud computing、crowdsourcing,當初的妙想在科技上一步步實現,而在日常生活的政治上一步步化為泡影甚至反諷。
評分信息技術的中國史前史。
Information Fantasies 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載