ASIA AM 88S

Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Far East Futures

Description: Seminar, one hour. Introduction to techno-Orientalism. First theorized by Edward Said, Orientalism is a system of domination in which the West structurally imagines the East as a backward and immoral threat to a modern and moral West. Consideration of Techno-Orientalism as the West's manifestation of fear towards the East's futuristic technological rise, imagining the East as dehumanized subjects who cannot be trusted with technology. Exploration of ways in which empire, globalization, and race are connected in the concept of techno-Orientalism. Focus on how West portrays East Asia in media and the larger consequences of such representation, as well as the forms of resistance that Asian American cultural production creates to combat techno-Orientalism. Critical assessment of political significance of imagining the future and its oppressive or liberating possibilities. P/NP grading. Facilitated by Victor Xie, with Victor Bascara as faculty mentor.

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