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The Resource Information fantasies : precarious mediation in postsocialist China, Xiao Liu

Information fantasies : precarious mediation in postsocialist China, Xiao Liu

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Author
Summary
"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"--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource
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)
Isbn
9781452959498
Instance
Label
Information fantasies : precarious mediation in postsocialist China
Title
Information fantasies
Title remainder
precarious mediation in postsocialist China
Statement of responsibility
Xiao Liu
Creator
Author
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"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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http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1982-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Liu, Xiao
Dewey number
303.48/330951
Government publication
government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Index
index present
LC call number
HN740.Z9
LC item number
L58 2019
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Information society
  • China
  • Technological forecasting
  • Future, The, in popular culture
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • HISTORY
  • Future, The, in popular culture
  • Information society
  • Intellectual life
  • Technological forecasting
  • China
Label
Information fantasies : precarious mediation in postsocialist China, Xiao Liu
Instantiates
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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)
Control code
1077576814
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781452959498
Lccn
2018057533
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
22573/ctvbcw4p2
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1077576814
Label
Information fantasies : precarious mediation in postsocialist China, Xiao Liu
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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)
Control code
1077576814
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781452959498
Lccn
2018057533
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
22573/ctvbcw4p2
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1077576814

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