Information fantasies : precarious mediation in postsocialist China /

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"Information Fantasies focuses on the cultural practices and media imaginations around information technologies, cybernetics, and systems theory in late 1970s and 1980s China. Xiao Liu explores China's rise to prominence in the global economy through revisiting these earlier 'informat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Liu, Xiao, 1982- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]
Temas:
Since 1976
Information society > China.
Technological forecasting > China.
Future, The, in popular culture.
Société de l'information > Chine.
Prévision technologique > Chine.
Futur dans la culture populaire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
HISTORY > Asia > China.
Future, The, in popular culture
Information society
Intellectual life
Technological forecasting
China > Intellectual life > 1976-
Chine > Vie intellectuelle > 1976-
China
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: "information pot" and postsocialist politics of mediation
  • Extrasensory powers, magic waves, and information explosion: imagining the digital
  • The curious case of a robot doctor: rethinking labor, expert systems, and the interface
  • The "ultrastable system" and the new cinema
  • Affective form: advertising, information aesthetics, and experimental writing in the market economy
  • Liminal mediation and the cinema redefined
  • Epilogue: the virtual past(s) of the future(s).

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