Techno-Orientalism 2.0

DAVID S. ROH is a professor and chair of the Department of English at the University of Utah. He is the author of Minor Transpacific: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions and Illegal Literature: Toward a Disruptive Creativity , and coeditor of Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Science Fiction, History, and Media (Rutgers University Press, 2015).BETSY HUANG is a professor of English at Clark University, Massachusetts. She is the author of Contesting Genres in Contemporary Asian American Fiction and coeditor of three essay collections: Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media (Rutgers University Press, 2015), Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education and Societal Contexts, and Asian American Literature in Transition, 1996–2020.GRETA AIYU NIU is an independent scholar based in Rochester, New York, and is coeditor of Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media (Rutgers University Press, 2015).CHRISTOPHER T. FAN is an associate professor of English at the University of California Irvine. He is the author of Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility.

"How do we envision the so-called threat of an impending 'Asian Century'? And, as importantly, how do we feel about it? This extraordinary sequel gives us the critical insights and imaginative tools to understand a technologically driven future that is at once terrifying and desirable." - Leslie Bow (author of Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy) "Whereas the original defined and limned the inner workings of an emerging mode of racial discourse, Techno-Orientalism 2.0 arrives at the apex of techno-orientalism, in a time when we are inundated with the images and imaginings of a techno-orientalist future that shape and structure our present. An electrified expansion into broader networks, this volume follows the proliferating mainstream discourse of techno-orientalism by broadening its scope, looking at our present through a sharp and unblemished lens, and venturing from the heights of our futuristic imaginations to the depths of our structured material world." - Christopher B. Patterson (author of Open World Empire: Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games) "This dazzling project marks both the extraordinary success of the first edited collection in making legible techno-orientalism as a subfield of study and the critical importance of analyzing how the conditions—of emergence, of legibility, and of future possibility—animating this subfield continue to evolve given the latest geopolitical realignments between Asia and the West. By arguing that techno-orientalism has transcended its initial focus on speculative fiction and Asiatic signifiers to develop into a 'mode of revelation,' this volume generatively shifts critical attention from subjects to structures and productively demonstrates how Asian American studies has begun to think in more geographically and conceptually expansive ways about race, genre, form, and function." - Tina Chen (director of the Global Asias Initiative at Pennsylvania State University)

• ContentsIntroduction - David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, Greta A. Niu, and Christopher T. FanPart I Labor ReconfigurationsChapter 1: Working Futures After Asians: Automation, AI, and the Global Labor Economy - Leland TabaresChapter 2: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: Techno-Orientalism in an Age of Cybernetic Capitalism - Won JeonChapter 3: Chinese Commodities: Adoption in After Yang - Kimberly D. McKeePart II Racialization as TechnologyChapter 4: Plastinated Vitruvian Man, the Datafication of Race, and Transracial Transfer in Westworld and Altered Carbon - Charles TungChapter 5: Outsiders Within: The Indigenous/Minority Question and Techno-Orientalist Gaze in India - M. Imran ParrayChapter 6: On Forms of the Black Box: Race and Difference between STS and Global Critical Race Studies - Clare S. Kim and Anna Romina GuevarraPart III SinofuturismChapter 7: Infrastructure and/as Mediation: China 2098’s Tempro-Affective Politics - Ian Liujia TianChapter 8: Techno-Orientalist Deflections: How Documentaries Frame China’s AI Threat - Gerald SimChapter 9: Techno-Futurehistory and the Sojourners of Global China: A Threefold Reading of The Wandering Earth - Shana YePart IV Machinic SubjectsChapter 10: Sacrificial Clones: The Technologized Korean Woman in Shiri and Cloud Atlas - Jane Chi Hyun ParkChapter 11: Assembling Mitski: The Aesthetics and Circuits of Techno-Ornamentalism - Rachel Tay and Jaeyeon YooPart V ExtensionsChapter 12: Asian Solarpunk: Between Utopia, Collective Futures and Remedies for Climate Panic - Agnieszka Kiejziwicz and Justin BattinChapter 13: Animated Bodies: Project Itoh and the Afterlives of Techno-Orientalism - Baryon PosadasChapter 14: Settler Orientalism, Asian American Techno-Environmentalism: The Network Novel under Japanese and U.S. Empires - Adhy KimChapter 15: The Alchemized Dis/abled Body as Recuperative Site in Fullmetal Alchemist - Jung Soo LeePart VI Optimistic FuturesChapter 16: Recovering Asian American Futures in the Marvel Cinematic Universe - Lori K. LopezChapter 17: Looking for Asianfuturism: Asian American SF and Games of Color - Edmond Y. ChangChapter 18: The Queer Techno-Orientalist Aesthetics of Disney’s Big Hero 6 - Thomas SarmientoConclusion - David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, Greta A. Niu, Christopher T. FanAcknowledgementsBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndexThe PresentFuturity: Techno-OrientalistInfrastructures 1DAVID S. ROH, BE TSY HUANG, GRE TA A IYU NIU, AND CHRISTOPHER T. FANPart I LaborReconfigurations1 Working FuturesafterAsians: Automation, AI,and the Global LaborEconomy 23LEL AND TABARES2 EverythingEverywhere All at Once: Techno-Orientalismin an Age of Cybernetic Capitalism 39WON JEON3 Chinese Commodities: Adoption in AfterYang 51KIMBERLY D. McKEEPart II Racialization as Technology4 Plastinated Vitruvian Man, the Datafication of Race,and Transracial Transfer in Westworld and Altered Carbon 67CHARLES M. TUNG5 Outsiders Within: The Indigenous/Minority Questionand Techno-OrientalistGaze in India 83M. IMRAN PARRAY6 On Forms of the Black Box: Race Technology in STSand Global Critical Race Studies 100CL ARE S. K IM AND ANNA ROMINA GUE VARRAPart III Sinofuturism7 Infrastructure and/as Mediation: China 2098’sTempro-AffectivePolitics 121IAN L IUJI A TIAN8 Techno-OrientalistDeflections: How DocumentariesFrame China’s AI Threat 137GERALD SIM9 Techno-Futurehistoryand the Sojourners of GlobalChina: A Threefold Reading of The Wandering Earth 153SHANA YEPart IV Machinic Subjects10 Sacrificial Clones: The Technologized Korean Womanin Shiri and Cloud Atlas 173JANE CHI HYUN PARK11 Assembling Mitski: The Aesthetics and Circuitsof Techno-Ornamentalism189RACHEL TAY AND JAE YEON YOOPart V Extensions12 Asian Solarpunk: Between Utopia, Collective Futures,and Remedies for Climate Panic 205AGNIESZK A K IE JZIEWICZ AND JUST IN MICHAEL BAT T IN13 Animated Bodies: ProjectItoh and the Afterlivesof Techno-Orientalism219BARYON TENSOR POSADAS14 Settler Orientalism, Asian AmericanTechno-Environmentalism:The NetworkNovel underJapaneseand U.S. Empires 235ADHY K IM15 The Alchemized Dis/abled Body as RecuperativeSite in Fullmetal Alchemist 249JUNG SOO LEEPart VI Optimistic Futures16 Recovering Asian American Futuresin the MarvelCinematic Universe 267LORI K IDO LOPE Z17 Looking for Asianfuturism: Asian American ScienceFiction and Games of Color 281EDMOND Y. CHANG18 The Queer Techno-OrientalistAesthetics of Disney’sBig Hero 6 298THOMAS X AV IER SARMIENTOMarkets of Techno-OrientalistCritique: A ConcludingDiscussion 315DAVID S. ROH, BE TSY HUANG, GRE TA A IYU NIU, AND CHRISTOPHER T. FANAcknowledgments325Bibliography 327Notes on Contributors 361Index 000