China and the Wireless Undertow

Media as Wave Philosophy

AvAnna Greenspan

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Explores the increasingly intimate relationship between China and wireless technology, taking the wave as a central conceptProvides a new theoretical apparatus that reimagines key issues around technological evolution in a shifting geopolitical landscapeOffers a corrective to certain myopias of Western media theoryPresents a deep, historical engagement with issues and debates surrounding Chinese cybercultureBrings together contemporary media theory with modern Chinese philosophical thoughtIn the 21st century city, wireless waves constitute an imperceptible, immersive, all-encompassing environment. Nowhere is this more so than in China, where a hyperdense network of mobile media has restructured daily life.Anna Greenspan re-imagines the relationship between China and wirelessness by synthesising contemporary media theory with modern Chinese thought. It focuses specifically on the work of three critical figures: Tan Sitong ??? (1865 1898), Xiong Shili ??? (1885 1968) and Mou Zongsan ??? (1909 1995).

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-10-17
Mått:156 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt:574 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Technicities
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399519731

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Anna Greenspan is Assistant Professor of Global Contemporary Media at NYU Shanghai. She is the author of Shanghai Future: Modernity Remade (Oxford University Press, 2014), India and the IT Revolution: Networks of Globalization (Palgrave, 2005). She also writes for a non-academic audience including these three books: Ccru: Writings 1997-2003 (Urbanomic, 2015), Future Mutations: Technology and the Evolution of the Species (Time Spiral Press, 2014) and Urbanatomy: Shanghai 2008 (China Intercontinental Press, 2008).

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Anna Greenspan adeptly interweaves the concept of Wave, linking premodern Confucian, Buddhist, and Daoist thought with today's rapidly changing, wireless China. This elucidates the historical and metaphysical underpinnings of contemporary Chinese media culture in all its intricacy. It leaves us keen to see where the waves of technology will carry China amid current geopolitical turbulence.

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PrefaceK-WavesKey TermsKey Characters　　　　　　　　 Acknowledgements　Introduction. Historical Waves; Electric Waves; Wave Philosophy5GThe Fifth WaveMedia Infrastructure　Elemental Media Wave Cosmo-ontology　Chapter 1. From Oscillation to Undulation: Chinese Culture and Techno-ModernityTi-Yong 體用Chinese Learning for Essence, Western Learning for PracticeThe Roots of Ti/YongXiong Shili 熊十力The Yogacara RevivalNew ConfucianismNew TreatiseChapter 2. Contraction and Expansion: From Wires to WirelessnessTelegraph SovereigntyTechno-NationalismThe Internet with Chinese CharacteristicsThe Telegraph and GlobalizationTechnological Time　Chapter 3. Repetition: Pirate Culture and the Cell PhoneThe Special Economic ZoneThe Shenzhen EpochThe Shenzhen MythShanzhai 山寨Land and SeaSimulation　Chapter 4. Vibration: The Body ElectricInfrastructural ImaginaryMysterious WavesTan Sitong 譚嗣同The Ether and Occult MaterialismYitai 以太The Ether and The SpectrumEmbodied ExperimentsChapter 5. Immersion: The Sentient CitySentient City vs Smart CityAlien IntelligenceNonhuman TimeTranscendental MaterialismMou Zongsan 牟宗三Surveillance　City Gods　Cultivation　Conclusion. Apprehending the Whole of the Wave　Bibliography