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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Liu, Xiao, 1982- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Technological forecasting.
Intellectual life.
Information society.
Future, The, in popular culture.
HISTORY > Asia > China.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Futur dans la culture populaire.
Prevision technologique > Chine.
Societe informatisee > Chine.
Technological forecasting > China.
Information society > China.
China.
Chine > Vie intellectuelle > 1976-
China > Intellectual life > 1976-
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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