China and the Wireless Undertow

Media as Wave Philosophy

Anna Greenspan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2025
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-1974-8 (ISBN)

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In the twenty-first century city, wireless waves constitute an imperceptible, immersive, all-encompassing environment. Nowhere is this more so than in China, where a hyperdense network of mobile media has restructured daily life. Anna Greenspan re-imagines the relationship between China and wirelessness by synthesizing contemporary media theory with modern Chinese thought. It focuses specifically on the work of three critical figures: Tan Sitong 譚嗣同 (1865–1898), Xiong Shili 熊十力 (1885–1968) and Mou Zongsan 牟宗三 (1909–1995).

Anna Greenspan is Assistant Professor of Global Contemporary Media at NYU Shanghai. She is the author of Shanghai Future: Modernity Remade (Oxford University Press, 2014), India and the IT Revolution: Networks of Globalization (Palgrave, 2005). She also writes for a non-academic audience including these three books: Ccru: Writings 1997-2003 (Urbanomic, 2015), Future Mutations: Technology and the Evolution of the Species (Time Spiral Press, 2014) and Urbanatomy: Shanghai 2008 (China Intercontinental Press, 2008).

Preface

K-Waves

Key Terms

Key Characters　　　　　　　　

Acknowledgements

　

Introduction. Historical Waves; Electric Waves; Wave Philosophy

5G

The Fifth Wave

Media Infrastructure　

Elemental Media

Wave Cosmo-ontology

　

Chapter 1. From Oscillation to Undulation: Chinese Culture and Techno-Modernity

Ti-Yong 體用

Chinese Learning for Essence, Western Learning for Practice

The Roots of Ti/Yong

Xiong Shili 熊十力

The Yogacara Revival

New Confucianism

New Treatise

Chapter 2. Contraction and Expansion: From Wires to Wirelessness

Telegraph Sovereignty

Techno-Nationalism

The Internet with Chinese Characteristics

The Telegraph and Globalization

Technological Time

　

Chapter 3. Repetition: Pirate Culture and the Cell Phone

The Special Economic Zone

The Shenzhen Epoch

The Shenzhen Myth

Shanzhai 山寨

Land and Sea

Simulation　

Chapter 4. Vibration: The Body Electric

Infrastructural Imaginary

Mysterious Waves

Tan Sitong 譚嗣同

The Ether and Occult Materialism

Yitai 以太

The Ether and The Spectrum

Embodied Experiments

Chapter 5. Immersion: The Sentient City

Sentient City vs Smart City

Alien Intelligence

Nonhuman Time

Transcendental Materialism

Mou Zongsan 牟宗三

Surveillance　

City Gods　

Cultivation

　

Conclusion. Apprehending the Whole of the Wave

　

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	29.01.2025
Reihe/Serie	Technicities
Zusatzinfo	2 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-3995-1974-3 / 1399519743
ISBN-13	978-1-3995-1974-8 / 9781399519748
Zustand	Neuware