Information fantasies precarious mediation in postsocialist China
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...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Minneapolis, London
University of Minnesota Press
2019
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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). "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"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | 318 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781517902742 978-1-5179-0274-2 9781517902735 978-1-5179-0273-5 |