Joshua Neves

Underglobalization

Beijing's Media Urbanism and the Chimera of Legitimacy

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781478007630
• ISBN-10: 147800763X
• Artikelnr.: 56974496

Autorenporträt

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