What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo and Shanghai, and it will be populated by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots. Techno-Orientalism investigates the phenomenon of imagining Asia and Asians in hypo- or hyper-technological terms in literary, cinematic, and new media representations.
What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo and Shanghai, and it will be populated by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots. Techno-Orientalism investigates the phenomenon of imagining Asia and Asians in hypo- or hyper-technological terms in literary, cinematic, and new media representations.
Chapter 5 I, Stereotype: Detained in the Uncanny Valley
Chapter 6 The Mask of Fu Manchu, Son of Sinbad, and Star Wars IV: A New Hope: Techno-Orientalist Cinema as an Mnemotechnics of 20th Century U.S.-Asian Conflicts
Chapter 7 Racial Speculations: (Bio)Technology, Battlestar Galactica, and Mixed-Race Imagining
Chapter 8 “Never Stop Playing”: StarCraft and Asian Gamer Death
Chapter 9 “Home Is Where the War Is”: Remaking Techno-Orientalist Militarism on the Homefront
Part II Reappropriations & Recuperations
Chapter 10 Thinking about Bodies, Souls, and Race in Gibson’s Bridge Trilogy
Chapter 11 Re-imagining Asian Women in Feminist Post-Cyberpunk Science Fiction
Chapter 12 The Cruel Optimism of Asian Futurity and the Reparative Practices of Sonny Liew’s Malinky Robot
Chapter 13 Palimpsestic Orientalisms and Antiblackness: Or, Joss Whedon’s “grand vision of an Asian/American tomorrow”
Chapter 14 “How Does It Not Know What It Is?”: The Techno-Orientalized Body in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and Larissa Lai’s Automaton Biographies
Chapter 15 “A Poor Man from a Poor Country”: Nam June Paik, TV-Buddha, and the Techno-Orientalist Lens
Desiring Machines, Repellant Subjects: A Conclusion
Chapter 5 I, Stereotype: Detained in the Uncanny Valley
Chapter 6 The Mask of Fu Manchu, Son of Sinbad, and Star Wars IV: A New Hope: Techno-Orientalist Cinema as an Mnemotechnics of 20th Century U.S.-Asian Conflicts
Chapter 7 Racial Speculations: (Bio)Technology, Battlestar Galactica, and Mixed-Race Imagining
Chapter 8 “Never Stop Playing”: StarCraft and Asian Gamer Death
Chapter 9 “Home Is Where the War Is”: Remaking Techno-Orientalist Militarism on the Homefront
Part II Reappropriations & Recuperations
Chapter 10 Thinking about Bodies, Souls, and Race in Gibson’s Bridge Trilogy
Chapter 11 Re-imagining Asian Women in Feminist Post-Cyberpunk Science Fiction
Chapter 12 The Cruel Optimism of Asian Futurity and the Reparative Practices of Sonny Liew’s Malinky Robot
Chapter 13 Palimpsestic Orientalisms and Antiblackness: Or, Joss Whedon’s “grand vision of an Asian/American tomorrow”
Chapter 14 “How Does It Not Know What It Is?”: The Techno-Orientalized Body in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and Larissa Lai’s Automaton Biographies
Chapter 15 “A Poor Man from a Poor Country”: Nam June Paik, TV-Buddha, and the Techno-Orientalist Lens
Desiring Machines, Repellant Subjects: A Conclusion
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
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