作者：XiaoLiu
出版社：UnivOfMinnesotaPress
副标题：PrecariousMediationinPostsocialistChina
出版年：2019-2-19
页数：376
定价：GBP21.99
装帧：Paperback
ISBN：9781517902742
内容简介
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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.
作者简介
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Xiao Liu is assistant professor of East Asian studies at McGill University.
目录
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Contents
Introduction: “Information Pot” and Postsocialist Politics of Mediation
1. Extrasensory Powers, Magic Waves, and Information Explosion: Imagining the Digital
2. The Curious Case of a Robot Doctor: Rethinking Labor, Expert Systems, and the Interface
3. The “Ultrastable System” and the New Cinema
4. Affective Form: Advertising, Information Aesthetics, and Experimental Writing in the Market Economy
5. Liminal Mediation and the Cinema Redefined
Epilogue: The Virtual Past(s) of the Future(s)
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
评论 ······
算不上三论在中国的接受史，论述三论时，主要靠信息堆叠和类比来推进，几乎没有读到三论和科研及社会转型涉及到的各领域（比如经济）的具体的纠缠；其实很惊讶当时就有学者在问“为什么中国没有现代科学技术”这个kuhn的经典问题，所以很好奇这段学术史。也算不上好的文化史，因为没有问出关于80s的核心问题，也没有探索这些问题（比如启蒙和现代性）的前因（五四）后果（*四）。媒介史/电影史的视角帮助作者简化了对po…
历史视角、文本分析、媒体研究结合的很好。彼时西方世界AI研究兴起，中国的“新时期”亦踏歌而来。钱学森、气功研究、人工智能、科幻小说及至今天的AI、cloud computing、crowdsourcing，当初的妙想在科技上一步步实现，而在日常生活的政治上一步步化为泡影甚至反讽。
信息技术的中国史前史。
good enough for a first book. the discussion on mediation is a good lit review for future reference. the major limitation of the book is its lack of theorization on the relationship between the art wo…
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