Book ID: CBB463399121

Information Fantasies: Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China (2019)

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Liu, Xiao (Author)


University of Minnesota Press


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 318
Language: English

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 'information fantasies' present in science fiction, modernist writing, films, scientific treatises, historical monographs, and key intellectual debates. (Publisher)

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Review Liang Yao (January 2021) Review of "Information Fantasies: Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China". Technology and Culture (pp. 308-309). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Åberg, Anna
Sara Garcia Santamaria
Cosmin Popan
Marklund, Andreas
Abnet, Dustin
Jack Linzhou Xing
Concepts
Future, The
Forecasting; prediction
Imaginaries
Popular Culture
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Technology and society
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
Jin Dynasty (China, 265-420)
Tang dynasty (China, 618-907)
Han dynasty (China, 202 B.C.-220 A.D.)
Ancient
Places
China
United States
Bangladesh
Cuba
Pakistan
Europe
Institutions
Koninklijke Nederlandsche Petroleum Maatschappij (Royal Dutch-Shell - firm)
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
RAND Corporation
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