Silvia M. Lindtner, "Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation\xa0(Princeton University Press, 2020) reveals how a growing distrust in Western models of progress and development, including Silicon Valley and the tech industry after the financial crisis of 2007\u20138, shaped the vision of China as a \u201cnew frontier\u201d of innovation. Author Silvia Lindtner unpacks how this promise of entrepreneurial life has influenced governance, education, policy, investment, and urban redesign in ways that normalize the persistence of sexist and racist violence and various forms of labor exploitation.\nSilvia Margot Lindtner\xa0(she/her) is a writer and ethnographer. She is Associate Professor at the University of Michigan in the\xa0School of Information\xa0and Director of the\xa0Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing (ESC). She is also\xa0a PIP (Public Intellectual Program) Fellow\xa0with the National Committee on United States-China Relations. Lindtner's research focuses on the cultures and politics of technology innovation, including the labor necessary to incubate entrepreneurial life, data-driven futures, and the promise of democratized agency. Drawing from more than ten years of multi-sited ethnographic research, she writes about China's shifting position in the global political economy of computing, supply chains, industrial and agricultural production, and science and technology policy.\nHost\xa0Peter Lorentzen\xa0is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of San Francisco, where he leads a new\xa0Master's program in Applied Economics\xa0focused on the digital economy. His own research focuses on China\u2019s political economy and governance.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law