剧情介绍
p quot Sinofuturism is an invisible movement A spectre already embedded into a trillion industrial products, a billion individuals, and a million veiled narratives It is a movement, not based on individuals, but on multiple overlapping flows Flows of populations, of products, and of processes Because Sinofuturism has arisen without conscious intention or authorship, it is often mistaken for contemporary China But it is not It is a science fiction that already exists br Sinofuturism is a video essay combining elements of science fiction, documentary melodrama, social realism, and Chinese cosmologies, in order to critique the present-day dilemmas of China and the people of its diaspora br With reference to Afrofuturism and Gulf Futurism, Sinofuturism presents a critical and playful approach to subverting cultural clichés br In Western media and Orientalist perceptions, China is exotic, strange, bizarre, kitsch, tacky, or cheap In its domestic media, China portrayed as heroic, stable, historic, grand, and unified Rather than counteract these skewed narratives, Sinofuturism proposes to push them much further br By embracing seven key stereotypes of Chinese society Computing, Copying, Gaming, Studying, Addiction, Labour and Gambling , it shows how China 三九 s technological development can be seen as a form of Artificial Intelligence quot p