Underglobalization : Beijing's Media Urbanism and the Chimera of Legitimacy

Neves, Joshua

Duke University Press（2020/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781478007630
• DDC分類 302.230951

Full Description

Despite China's recent emergence as a major global economic and geopolitical power, its association with counterfeit goods and intellectual property piracy has led many in the West to dismiss its urbanization and globalization as suspect or inauthentic. In Underglobalization 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. Focusing on a wide range of media technologies and practices in Beijing, Neves shows how piracy and fakes are manifestations of what he calls underglobalization-the ways social actors undermine and refuse to implement the specific procedures and protocols required by globalization at different scales. By tracking the rise of fake politics and transformations in political society, in China and globally, Neves demonstrates that they are alternate outcomes of globalizing processes rather than anathema to them.

Contents

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