[Ssnet_list] Join UW’s Erin McElroy for two book events in October

[Daniela K Rosner via Ssnet_list]

Erin McElroy (Department of Geography) has two upcoming book talks on their
new book Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in
Postsocialist Times <https://www.dukeupress.edu/silicon-valley-imperialism>,
recently published with Duke University Press. The first will take place at
Town Hall in partnership with Elliot Bay Book Company on Saturday October
5th from 7:30-8:45pm. It will be in conversation with Manissa M. Maharawal
(Anthropology, American University) and Daniela Rosner (HCDE, UW). It’s a
sliding scale event but if you’re a graduate student and would like a
free/comped ticket, let Erin know at erinmcel at uw.edu. It’s also free for
anyone under 22 per Town Hall’s guidelines. Otherwise, you can reserve
tickets here <https://townhallseattle.org/event/erin-mcelroy/>.

And then there will be a book talk on campus hosted by the Center for the
Studies of Demography and Ecology at Parrington Hall 360 on Friday October
18th from 12:30-1:30pm. This will be in  conversation with our UW
colleagues Jenna Grant (Anthropology) and Nassim Parvin (iSchool). More info
can be found here
<https://csde.washington.edu/newsevents/calendar/?trumbaEmbed=view=event&eventid=177638205>.


In Silicon Valley Imperialism, Erin McElroy maps the processes of
gentrification, racial dispossession, and economic predation that drove the
development of Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area and how that
logic has become manifest in postsocialist Romania. Drawing on ethnographic
fieldwork and archival research in Romania and the United States, McElroy
exposes the mechanisms through which the appeal of Silicon Valley
technocapitalism devours space and societies, displaces residents, and
generates extreme income inequality in order to expand its reach. Examining
postsocialist dreams of reprivatization and Siliconization, McElroy charts
the updating of fascist pasts and geographies of racial banishment on both
sides of the former Iron Curtain. At the same time, McElroy attends to how
anticapitalist and anti-imperialist activists, artists, and technologists
build on socialist worldviews not to restore state socialism but rather to
establish more just social formations. Attending to the violence of Silicon
Valley imperialism, McElroy reveals technocapitalism as an ultimately
unsustainable model of rapacious economic and geographic growth.


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Daniela K. Rosner, Professor
Co-Director, HCDE MS Program
Sieg Hall, room 409
Dept. of Human Centered Design & Engineering
University of Washington
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