Format:
318 Seiten :
,
Illustrationen ;
,
22 cm.
ISBN:
9781517902735
,
1517902738
,
9781517902742
,
1517902746
Content:
"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"--
Note:
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)
Additional Edition:
Online version Liu, Xiao, 1982- Information fantasies Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2019] ISBN 9781452959498
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
