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Posts Tagged ‘Xi Jinping’

Sigh/n of relief

Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged , , , on June 19, 2023 | 1 Comment »

As the world breathes a sigh of relief that this meeting happened at all, ecocritics can wonder about the semiotics of the image framing Chairman Xi Jinping’s meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. Relief : Is this: China as a force of nature? Xi backed by the power of the Earth itself? Blinken […]

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Is there life after ‘big data’?

Posted in Politics, Science & society, tagged , , , , , , , , , on June 27, 2022 | Leave a Comment »

Big data + authoritarian governance = techno-totalitarianism. At least that’s the equation we’re most familiar with, and the route that appears to be being laid out in Xi’s China, according to this lengthily researched New York Times piece. (To be fair, the authors only use “techno-authoritarianism,” and the titular and subtitular “-totalitarianism” gloss appears to […]

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