{"product_id":"information-fantasies-xiao-liu-9781517902735","title":"Information Fantasies: Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Science Fiction Research Association Book Award​\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA groundbreaking, alternate history of information technology and information discourses\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eInformation Fantasies\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cp\u003eAnticipating 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRanging over forgotten science fiction, unjustly neglected films, corporeal practices such as qigong, scientific journals, advertising, and cybernetic theories, \u003ci\u003eInformation Fantasies\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Xiao Liu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517902738\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517902735\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/19\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.00d","brand":"Xiao Liu","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088506433791,"sku":"9781517902735","price":112.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b8660a5b-9760-4bb0-a5f5-ab90afd8560c.jpg?v=1769105143","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/information-fantasies-xiao-liu-9781517902735","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}