Focusing on a wide range of media technologies and practices in Beijing, Joshua Neves examines the cultural politics of the “fake” and how frictions between legality and legitimacy propel dominant models of economic development and political life in contemporary China.
Focusing on a wide range of media technologies and practices in Beijing, Joshua Neves examines the cultural politics of the “fake” and how frictions between legality and legitimacy propel dominant models of economic development and political life in contemporary China.
Joshua Neves is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair, Film Studies at Concordia University and coeditor of Asian Video Cultures: In the Penumbra of the Global, also published by Duke University Press.
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgments vii Introduction. After Legitimacy 1 1. Rendering the City: Between Ruins and Blueprints 33 2. Digital Urbanism: Piratical Citizenship and the Infrastructure of Dissensus 61 3. Bricks and Media: Cinema's Technologized Spatiality 94 4. Beijing en Abyme: Television and the Unhomely Social 120 5. Videation: Technological Intimacy and the Politics of Global Connection 150 6. People as Media Infrastructure: Illicit Culture and the Pornographics of Globalization 169 Notes 169 Bibliography 227 Index 245
Acknowledgments vii Introduction. After Legitimacy 1 1. Rendering the City: Between Ruins and Blueprints 33 2. Digital Urbanism: Piratical Citizenship and the Infrastructure of Dissensus 61 3. Bricks and Media: Cinema's Technologized Spatiality 94 4. Beijing en Abyme: Television and the Unhomely Social 120 5. Videation: Technological Intimacy and the Politics of Global Connection 150 6. People as Media Infrastructure: Illicit Culture and the Pornographics of Globalization 169 Notes 169 Bibliography 227 Index 245
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