Book ID: CBB539451397

Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times (2024)

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McElroy, Erin (Author)


Duke University Press


Publication Date: 2024
Physical Details: 296
Language: English

In Silicon Valley Imperialism, Erin McElroy maps the processes of gentrification, racial dispossession, and economic predation that drove the development of Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area and how that logic has become manifest in postsocialist Romania. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in Romania and the United States, McElroy exposes the mechanisms through which the appeal of Silicon Valley technocapitalism devours space and societies, displaces residents, and generates extreme income inequality in order to expand its reach. In Romania, dreams of privatization updated fascist and anti-Roma pasts and socialist-era underground computing practices. At the same time, McElroy accounts for the ways Romanians are resisting Silicon Valley capitalist logics, where anticapitalist and anti-imperialist activists and protesters build on socialist-era worldviews not to restore state socialism but rather to establish more just social formations. Attending to the violence of Silicon Valley imperialism, McElroy reveals technocapitalism as an ultimately unsustainable model of rapacious economic and geographic growth.

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Authors & Contributors
Anonymous
Bugos, Glenn E.
Campbell-Kelly, Martin
Cortada, J. W.
Dickens, Peter
Gaddis, John Lewis
Journals
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Science as Culture
American Quarterly
Environment and History
Humanities and Technology Review
Science, Technology, and Human Values
Publishers
University of California Press
Yale University
Springer International Publishing
Concepts
Technology and economics
Computers and computing
Capitalism
Science and technology studies (STS)
Technology and industry
Business and commerce
People
Jobs, Steve
Noyce, Robert
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
Places
Silicon Valley (California)
United States
Romania
Israel
Kazakhstan
Uzbekistan
Institutions
Science for the People (SftP)
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