Information fantasies : precarious mediation in postsocialist China /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Liu, Xiao, 1982- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Information society > China. China > Intellectual life > 1976- Technological forecasting > China. Future, The, in popular culture. Since 1976 Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

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).