Linda Huang | Rethinking “Human”: Pond Society, Automation Fever, and the Disappearance of the Laboring Body from chinese new 1983 Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 35 min 55 sec ✓ Published: 14-Oct-2020
Description: While American futurologist Alvin Toffler’s book The Third Wave fueled the craze for manufacturing automation in post-Mao China, Zhao Ziyang’s 1983 talk “New Technology Revolution” endorsed the country’s transition into a knowledge-intensive society. In response to the imagination of a coming information society where humans and machines become increasingly interconnected, the reconfiguration of socialist bodies became a popular subject matter in Chinese experimental art. This study dr
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