Techno-Orientalism
Title
Techno-Orientalism
Description
What will the future look like? Many speculative fictions films and books from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, render the future as full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and populated by cold, unfeeling robot-like citizens. Techno-Orientalism investigates literary, cinematic, and new media imaginings of Asia and Asians in hypo- or hyper-technological terms, offering critical analyses of recurring stereotypes of Asians as both technologically advanced and intellectually primitive, in dire need of Western consciousness-raising...&c
Date
2015
Type
PN3433.6T432015
Identifier
2003.500.8101