China and the Wireless Undertow: Media as Wave Philosophy
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).

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China and the Wireless Undertow: Media as Wave Philosophy
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).

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China and the Wireless Undertow: Media as Wave Philosophy

China and the Wireless Undertow: Media as Wave Philosophy

by Anna Greenspan
China and the Wireless Undertow: Media as Wave Philosophy

China and the Wireless Undertow: Media as Wave Philosophy

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Overview

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).


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781399519731
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 10/17/2023
Series: Technicities
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Anna Greenspan is Assistant Professor of Global Contemporary Media at NYU Shanghai. She is the author of Shanghai Future: Modernity Remade (Oxford UniversityPress, 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).

Table of Contents

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

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