Asian Futures Without Asians
Imaginary Worlds
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Techno Orientalism
The idea of orientalism had to be revived or re rationalized. The logic of techno orientalism goes like this, japanese auto manufacturers can do well because they are really good at copy and stealing. You can see that tiscourse now being applied to china. And chinese manufacturing s just the same, same old story in a new form. It's their very inhumanity that is allowing them to compete with us in this way. But there's still an under girding of this idea of prematurnity. So you have thee weird contradictions, where a, in these science fiction films andand novels, you'll have like sibernetic samurai or
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