[Ssnet_list] book talk of interest

[Leah M Ceccarelli via Ssnet_list]

Here’s a talk that might be of interest to members of this listserv:



Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times

Author: Erin McElroy, Geography, University of Washington
Critics: Nassim Parvin, Information School, University of Washington; Jenna Grant, Anthropology, University of Washington

CSDE Seminar Series<https://csde.washington.edu/seminar/silicon-valley-imperialism-techno-fantasies-and-frictions-in-postsocialist-times/>
Author Meets Critics

Parrington Hall Room 360

10/18/2024
12:30-1:30 PM PT

To Join By Zoom: Register HERE<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wmZqwWeSRFWQoD7rDzfnjA*/registration__;Iw!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!jNwoqMUgQPxOG_iu2D0R3x_OWoU9rLLh_mtbACGzyEM2GsUKXxULn94gLXx0EM5ywB1OKqdf5hpdw2I$>

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 protesters 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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