Prototype Nation (eBook)

China and the Contested Promise of Innovation

Silvia M. Lindtner (Autor)

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2020
288 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20495-6 (ISBN)

Infos

A vivid look at China's shifting place in the global political economy of technology production How did China's mass manufacturing and "e;copycat"e; production become transformed, in the global tech imagination, from something holding the nation back to one of its key assets? Prototype Nation offers a rich transnational analysis of how the promise of democratized innovation and entrepreneurial life has shaped China's governance and global image. With historical precision and ethnographic detail, Silvia Lindtner reveals how a growing distrust in Western models of progress and development, including Silicon Valley and the tech industry after the financial crisis of 2007-8, shaped the rise of the global maker movement and the vision of China as a "e;new frontier"e; of innovation.Lindtner's investigations draw on more than a decade of research in experimental work spaces-makerspaces, coworking spaces, innovation hubs, hackathons, and startup weekends-in China, the United States, Africa, Europe, Taiwan, and Singapore, as well as in key sites of technology investment and industrial production-tech incubators, corporate offices, and factories. She examines how the ideals of the maker movement, to intervene in social and economic structures, served the technopolitical project of prototyping a "e;new"e; optimistic, assertive, and global China. In doing so, Lindtner demonstrates that entrepreneurial living influences governance, education, policy, investment, and urban redesign in ways that normalize the persistence of sexism, racism, colonialism, and labor exploitation.Prototype Nation shows that by attending to the bodies and sites that nurture entrepreneurial life, technology can be extricated from the seemingly endless cycle of promise and violence.Cover image: Courtesy of Cao Fei, Vitamin Creative Space and Spruth Magers

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
• Zusatzinfo: 38 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Schlagworte: activism • Alternative model • alternative modernities • behalf • Brand Management • Business Model • Capitalism • CCP • central government • Chasing Innovation • China • China-US relations • Chinese Culture • Chinese dream • Chinese People • Christo Sims • Collaboration • Colonialism • Computing Technology • Consultant • Counterculture • Creative Class • Creative Commons • Creative Industries • Creative Work • Cultural Hegemony • Customer • Democratization • Deng Xiaoping • Designer • Design Studio • design thinking • digital labor • Digital technology • disruptive fixation • Economic Development • Economic Growth • Economization • economy • Economy of China • electronic markets • Employment • Empowerment • Encoding Race • Engineering • Entrepreneurial life • Entrepreneurship • Exclusion • Faked in China • Fan Yang • Feminist Anthropology • finance capital • Finance capitalism • Financial Crisis • Flurry (company) • foreign tech entrepreneurs • Foxconn • Free culture movement • Fudan University • Funding • Gender • Gender Studies • Geopolitics • Globalization • Governance • Hackathon • Hackerspace • happiness labor • hegemony • huawei • Human Capital • Ideology • imperialism • incubator programs • industrial production • Information Society • Infrastructure • Innovation • Institution • Intel • Intellectual Property • Investment • Investor • IT industry • Joi Ito • Labor Exploitation • Lilly Irani • Make a Difference • Maker • Maker Culture • Maker Faire • Maker Movement • Manufacturing • Marketing • Modernity • Modernization • Morgan Ames • Neoliberal capitalism • Neoliberalism • Office Space • Open Innovation • Open-source hardware • optimism • Outsourcing • Participatory Design • peer production • Political Economy • Politics • post-industrial society • Precarity • Privatization • Publication • Race • Sareeta Amrute • science and technology • science, technology and society • self-economization • shanzhai • Sharism • Shenzhen • Silicon Valley • Smart City • Social Justice • Special economic zone • startup company • Subjectivity • Supply Chain • Taobao • Tax • tech innovation • technological elites • technological promise • Technology • technology industry • Technology Innovation • The Charisma Machine • transnational • underprivileged workers • unfree labour • Urban renewal • Vendor • Venture Capital • venture capital system • Website • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20495-0 / 0691204950
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20495-6 / 9780691204956