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The Mirage of China : Anti-Humanism, Narcissism, and Corporeality of the Contemporary World / Xin Liu.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Culture and Politics/Politics and Culture ; 5Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (222 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781845455453
  • 9781845459062
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.951
LOC classification:
  • HC427.95
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue: Making Up Numbers -- Part I Moral Mathematics -- Chapter One The Mentality of Governance -- Chapter Two The Facticity of Social Facts -- Part II Statistics, Metaphysics, and Ethics -- Chapter Three Discipline and Punish -- Chapter Four The Specter of Marx -- Part III Reason and Revolution -- Chapter Five The Taming of Chance -- Chapter Six Interiorization -- Chapter Seven Exteriorization -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Index
Summary: Today’s world is one marked by the signs of digital capitalism and global capitalist expansion, and China is increasingly being integrated into this global system of production and consumption. As a result, China’s immediate material impact is now felt almost everywhere in the world; however, the significance and process of this integration is far from understood. This study shows how the a priori categories of statistical reasoning came to be re-born and re-lived in the People’s Republic - as essential conditions for the possibility of a new mode of knowledge and governance. From the ruins of the Maoist revolution China has risen through a mode of quantitative self-objectification. As the author argues, an epistemological rift has separated the Maoist years from the present age of the People’s Republic, which appears on the global stage as a mirage. This study is an ethnographic investigation of concepts - of the conceptual forces that have produced and been produced by - two forms of knowledge, life, and governance. As the author shows, the world of China, contrary to the common view, is not the Chinese world; it is a symptomatic moment of our world at the present time.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue: Making Up Numbers -- Part I Moral Mathematics -- Chapter One The Mentality of Governance -- Chapter Two The Facticity of Social Facts -- Part II Statistics, Metaphysics, and Ethics -- Chapter Three Discipline and Punish -- Chapter Four The Specter of Marx -- Part III Reason and Revolution -- Chapter Five The Taming of Chance -- Chapter Six Interiorization -- Chapter Seven Exteriorization -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Index

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Today’s world is one marked by the signs of digital capitalism and global capitalist expansion, and China is increasingly being integrated into this global system of production and consumption. As a result, China’s immediate material impact is now felt almost everywhere in the world; however, the significance and process of this integration is far from understood. This study shows how the a priori categories of statistical reasoning came to be re-born and re-lived in the People’s Republic - as essential conditions for the possibility of a new mode of knowledge and governance. From the ruins of the Maoist revolution China has risen through a mode of quantitative self-objectification. As the author argues, an epistemological rift has separated the Maoist years from the present age of the People’s Republic, which appears on the global stage as a mirage. This study is an ethnographic investigation of concepts - of the conceptual forces that have produced and been produced by - two forms of knowledge, life, and governance. As the author shows, the world of China, contrary to the common view, is not the Chinese world; it is a symptomatic moment of our world at the present time.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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