Issue #81 Asian Futurism and the Non-Other

Asian Futurism and the Non-Other

Xin Wang

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Iowa-class battleship personified as a young girl in the style of the kantai subculture, as found on the cover of Modern Weaponry magazine, an official government-funded Chinese publication.

Issue #81
April 2017










Notes
1

Geert Lovink and Yuk Hui, “Digital Objects and Metadata Schemes,” e-flux journal 78 (December 2016) .

2

As cited in Julia Vaingurt, Wonderlands of the Avant-Garde: Technology and the Arts in Russia of the 1920s (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2013), 12.

3

Liu Cixin, China 2185, written in 1989 and never published in print. It now circulates online and can be accessed on sites such as http://www.kanunu8.com/book3/6655/

4

Xin Wang, “Wind Rising from the Tips of Green Duckweeds: A Conversation with Qiu Anxiong,” Temporal Turn: Art and Speculation in Contemporary Asia (Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art), 159.

5

Interview with the artist in Feburary 2016.

6

Available in Zainab Bahrani, The Graven Images: Representation in Babylonia and Assyria (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), 121–48.

7

Ibid., 131.

8

See the Jonah M. Kessel and Paul Mozur, “How China is Changing Your Internet,” video, New York Times, August 9, 2016

9

See Katie Rogers, “Boaty McBoatface: What You Get When You Let the Internet Decide,” New York Times, March 21, 2016.

10

See Siegfried Kracauer, as cited in “Techniques of the Observer: Hito Steyerl and Laura Poitras in Conversation,” Artforum, May 2015 .

11

See Ran Dian editors, “‘We all just need to relax’—sound bites from ACAW,” Ran Dian, November 2 2015 .

12

Finbarr Barry Flood, “Idol Breaking as Image Making in the ‘Islamic State,’” Religion and Society: Advances in Research 7 (2016): 116–38.

13

Ömür Harmanşhah, ”ISIS, Heritage, and the Spectacles of Destruction in the Global Media,” Near Eastern Archaeology, vol. 78, no. 3 (2015): 170–77.

14

Michel Foucault, Remarks On Marx (New York: Semiotext(e), 1991), 121.

15

Dawn Chan, “Asia-futurism,” Artforum, Summer 2016 .

16

David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, and Greta A. Niu, “Techno-Orientalism: An Introduction,” Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2015), 1–19.

17

Ibid., 10.

18

Judith Butler, Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory,” Theatre Journal, vol. 40, no. 4. (December 1988): 530.

19

Cao Fei/China Tracy, “RMB City Manifesto,” reprinted in Cao Fei: I Watch That Worlds Pass by, ed. Renate Wiehager (Köln: Snoeck, 2015), 199.